Job description
🌟 Job Opportunity: Special Needs Teaching Assistants – SEN School, Bournemouth 🌟
Are you passionate about supporting children with complex needs? A specialist SEN school in Bournemouth is seeking dedicated and compassionate Special Needs Teaching Assistants to join their team across a range of flexible roles.
📍 Location: Bournemouth
🕒 Working Hours: 09:00am – 15:30pm
📅 Start Date: ASAP
📘 Contract Types Available:
1. Ad-Hoc (flexible daily cover)
2. Short-Term
3. Long-Term
4. Permanent
About the Role:
You will be supporting pupils with a variety of complex needs, including autism, physical disabilities, and severe learning difficulties. Working closely with teachers and therapists, you’ll help create a safe, engaging, and inclusive learning environment tailored to each pupil’s individual needs.
Key Responsibilities:
5. Provide one-to-one and small group support
6. Assist with personal care and mobility needs (where required)
7. Support communication and sensory development
8. Promote independence and emotional wellbeing
9. Collaborate with staff and families to support pupil progress
Ideal Candidate:
10. Experience working with children or young people with SEN (preferred)
11. Calm, patient, and resilient approach
12. Strong communication and teamwork skills
13. Willingness to learn and adapt to different needs
14. Enhanced DBS (or willingness to obtain one)
What We Offer:
15. Flexible working options to suit your availability
16. Supportive and inclusive school environment
17. Opportunities for training and career development
18. A chance to make a meaningful impact every day
Prospero Teaching is acting as an employment business/education recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy. The successful candidate will be required to register with Prospero Teaching to fill this vacancy.
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