Psychology Graduate aspiring to be a SEN Teaching Assistant, leading to becoming an Education or Clinical Psychologist
You will work with students who will test your skill and patience to its absolute limit. You will see some behaviour that will shock, it wouldn't be normal if it didn't to start with. You will be working with students, 3-18 with a range of SEN and SEMH in this provision. Context is king with all of these roles and the students you are working with.
Would working 1:1 with students with Mild Learning Difficulties and Speech and Language difficulties further your career?
Would you like to increase your experience working with SEN pupils of varying degree of ability and behaviour? All pupils will have Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues, every pupil will have an EHCP.
Having had the pleasure of placing Psychology Graduates into SEN Teaching Assistant roles for the last 4 years, it has become clear that this is a fantastic way to gain the practical experience you will require to become a Occupational therapist or Education Psychologist in the coming years. This is a superb way of getting the reference YOU NEED to get onto a MSC/Research Project over another Psychology Graduate