Looking for a role where you can make a real difference to one young person every single day? This specialist SEMH school in Gateshead is searching for a calm, confident and compassionate Behaviour Support Assistant to join their team, working 1:1 with a pupil who needs consistent, trusting support.
This isn’t just classroom work, it’s relationship building, helping a young person feel safe, understood and ready to learn.
What you’ll be doing
1. Providing steady, tailored 1:1 support for a pupil with social, emotional and mental health needs
2. Using de-escalation techniques and trauma-informed practice to guide behaviour positively
3. Working closely with teachers, the SENCo and pastoral staff to create a safe routine
4. Supporting with transitions, movement breaks and personalised learning activities
5. Helping the pupil build confidence, emotional resilience and a sense of belonging
What the school is looking for
6. Experience supporting children or young people with SEMH, SEND or challenging behaviour
7. A calm, patient approach with genuinely strong relationship-building skills
8. Someone who can stay steady when days feel a bit messy
9. A team player who understands the importance of consistency in specialist settings
What you’ll get from Protocol Education
10. Weekly PAYE pay, no umbrella headaches
11. Free access to our CPD academy with behaviour, SEND and safeguarding training
12. A supportive consultant who knows the Gateshead SEN landscape inside out
13. Opportunities to progress into long-term and permanent roles in specialist settings
Quick question…
Are you Thrive trained?
If not, we can get you access to FREE Thrive training, which schools absolutely love and which will make your profile really stand out.
If this sounds like your kind of role, I’d love to help you take the next step.
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 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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