Teaching Assistant - Mental Health

Job Title: Teaching Assistant

• SEMH Teaching Assistant
• Full-time
• North London
• Contract: Ongoing

A highly-respected specialist school, based within North London, are looking for an experienced SEMH Teaching Assistant to join their staff on a full-time basis.

The Role

The role would require you to be confident in supporting pupils with challenging behaviour and be able to set as well as maintain boundaries. The role is to support their Secondary site. In this role you will be supporting various pupils across the school on both a 1 to 1 and small group basis. You will work closely with the teaching and wider staff team to provide support for the students within classes, school activities and specialist and intervention sessions.

School

This School provides education for up to 82 students aged 5 to 16 who have either been permanently excluded from mainstream school or are on a placement. They are taught in groups of normally no more than seven. There are two sites, the Primary site and Secondary site as well as an additional site for vocational and alternative provision.

If you are an experienced Teaching Assistant looking for an exciting new opportunity to develop your skills then this would be a fantastic opportunity and would look great on your CV!

(SEMH)

Schools for students with behavioural and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs provide a nurturing and supportive learning environment that is adaptable to meet each student s needs. As a teaching assistant you will support students to develop their day to day and academic skills as well as build their self-esteem and regulate emotions. Students can display challenging behaviour and staff are provided with training to manage situations. This role is ideal for those that truly want to make a difference and support young people to a healthy and happy future.

We are interested in applications from:

• Experienced SEMH Teaching Assistants
• Outreach Workers
• Youth workers

You need a caring, dedicated and professional approach to working with children and young people within education

We have a policy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Philosophy Education is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.