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Location: North Lincolnshire
Start Date: September 2025
Contract: Term Time Only.
Salary: £88.94 to £114.84 a day.
GSL Education is working with a Primary School who are looking for Teaching Assistants who have experience working with severe challenging behaviour. This is to help support children with additional needs including autism and social, emotional, and mental health needs.
This is to work with KS2 children who are unable to work within a mainstream classroom due to past or current childhood traumas and cannot engage in mainstream classrooms. As such, many students will portray challenging behaviours. If you are looking for arewarding position, term time only, GSL Education want to hear from you!
About the Job Role:
* Work under the direction of the class teacher, SENCO, or a member of the provisions Senior Management Team to carry out work and tasks set by the teacher.
* Your main objective will be to support the pupils, being aware of their triggers, any signs of unease and help students to regulate.
* Support diverse group of pupils with a range of complex learning needs, social and emotional difficulties and challenging behaviours.
* Accompany other staff on school visits and in other activities outside of the classroom and have responsibility for specific pupils or small groups as directed by the teacher.
* Monitor and respond to pupil learning and behaviour at all times by adjusting supervised activities.
* Monitor and is respond to pupils’ personal needs and communication.
* Contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the school.
* Contribute to the planning and review of a differentiated curriculum and individual education plans and individual behaviour plans.
* Input any ways you think would improve engagement with the students, be a helping hand and try different learning and support techniques such as interactive learning.
* Encourage positive socialisation, interaction, and behaviours within school.
Behaviour Teaching Assistant Minimum Requirements:
* Have experience working within a Pupil Referral Unit, Special Educational Needs School, an Alternative Provision or 1:1 with challenging behaviour within a primary school is a must.
* Have experience or in-depth knowledge of Special Educational Needs such as Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs, Learning Difficulties, ADHD and Autism.
* Experienced in managing behaviour linked to additional needs.
* Be knowledgeable or experienced in using verbal de-escalation techniques.
* Be available Monday to Friday, 0830-1530, Term Time Only.
* Have an Enhanced DBS registered to the update service or be willing to apply for a new one via GSL Education.
If you are keen to work full time as a Behaviour Teaching Assistants and are committed to safe working and the supervision of young people, have experience with or have always wanted to work within SEND, then we would love to hear from you. To apply for the position ofBehaviour Teaching Assistant, please contact Lucy Hubbard today or upload an up-to-date CV via the application link.
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service.
For more information or to be considered for this role, please click ‘apply’ and submit your up-to-date CV and one of our dedicated consultants will be in touch.
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