Are you a SEND teaching assistant with experience of working with children with medical needs? If you are an SEND specialist, or have strengths being a learning support assistant for children with additional and medical needs, this is the role for you!
From January, an Elland Primary school is looking for a learning support assistant to work 1:1 with a boy in Year 1 with autism.
Day to day for this SEND teaching assistant role:
- Supporting him with learning tasks
- Communicating effectiviely with the child (using makaton and visuals as needed)
- Supporting him with behaviour
- Encouraging/ promoting independence as much as possible
As a support assistant you will show strong pastoral and emotional support for your pupil, as well as being vigilant to their cues and needs which will mean able to think on the spot and being flexible with his timetable. The pupil will require some brain breaks or walks around school as needed.
Does this sound like the perfect role for you? Then you could be this pupil's new learning support assistant as soon as possible and really make his school day a positive experience. Get in touch today!