DO you have experience supporting pupils with SEND and want a role where your skills are truly valued?
We’re recruiting a caring and resilient SEND Teaching Assistant for a supportive school in Sunderland. This role focuses on providing consistent, tailored support to pupils who need structure, patience, and encouragement to thrive.
You’ll be a steady presence in the classroom, helping pupils feel safe, understood, and ready to learn.
What you’ll be doing:
Providing 1:1 or small group SEND support
Supporting pupils with additional learning or emotional needs
Working alongside teachers and SEN staff
Helping pupils manage routines and transitions
Promoting confidence and independence
What we’re looking for:
Experience supporting SEND pupils
A calm, empathetic approach
Strong behaviour support skills
Reliability and commitment
A genuine passion for inclusive education
Thrive-trained? Brilliant. Not yet? We’ll sort that for you with free Thrive training.
Why Protocol Education?
Weekly PAYE pay
Free CPD and wellbeing-focused training
Ongoing consultant support
Long-term, meaningful roles
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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