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Job Description - SEMH Teaching Assistant

Role: SEMH Teaching Assistant

Location: Islington

Pay rate: Up to £650 per week

Start date: September 2025

Horizon Teachers are seeking experienced and pro-active Teaching Assistants to support Primary aged students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs who have been permanently excluded and allocated a place within the school through SEN consultations on a short-term placement.

About the School:

  • This school uses a trauma-informed approach, where staff work closely with families and students to develop positive relationships to remove barriers to learning and personal development

What we are looking for:

  • The successful candidate will have previous experience supporting Students with Special Educational Needs or Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs.
  • Knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice, including statutory requirements for students with an EHCP
  • Commitment to forming positive relationships with young people and adults in a school environment
  • Experience in assisting in the delivery of educational work programmes by participating in day to day learning activities, supporting children so that they achieve to the best of their abilities
  • To support in planning and evaluating programmes and adapting teaching materials to suit the requirements of individual children or groups of children
  • To contribute to the delivery of child programmes, including literacy and numeracy, keyboard skills, life skills and to ensure that the programme is always delivered professionally

Why Horizon Teachers:

  • We offer our support staff the highest rates up to £650 per week!
  • Horizon Teachers is committed to ensuring our staff are happy in their roles, please look at our 4.8 star rated Google reviews
  • A team of specialist education consultants and many with years of education experience

Horizon Teachers is a specialist Education Recruitment Consultancy that helps Teachers and Support Staff find long term, permanent and interim employment in Primary, Secondary and Special Schools throughout London, the South East, the Midlands and the North of England. As part of the registration process you will be required to have a DBS Check carried out and all original relevant qualifications will need to be sighted and copied before any work placement. For all teaching roles you will need to hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent.

Horizon Teachers. Enhancing Children's Education.

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