SEMH Teaching Assistant

• SEMH Teaching Assistant
• Full-time
• Hospital based school
• North London
• September start
• Ongoing contract

A forward-thinking inclusive school based within a hospital in North London are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join their school

The Role

As an SEMH Teaching Assistant you will be supporting children and their families within the community who are linked with the school. Pupils will have a range of complex SEMH needs and SEND. You will be based in the school and also out in the community visiting homes. Your role will include assessments and support programmes for families and building the home/school relationship to ensure that children are receiving the correct support and care at all times. You will work closely with teachers, leaders and other support staff in the school as well as external agencies.

Students are taught in small mixed age classes and follow a range of national curriculum subjects which are differentiated and delivered in creative and meaningful ways. Alongside standard lessons, students access social development sessions and experiences to develop self-esteem including trips, cooking and sports sessions.

You will support pupils within classes and in therapy sessions and off-site activities. You will sometimes be providing 1 to 1 support as well as supporting the teachers and therapists.

The school are looking for multiple Teaching Assistants to join the school in September on a full-time, long-term contract basis.

Please can you write up an ad for Great Ormond Street Hospital School.

It needs to be someone with KS1 and KS2 experience and someone with a good academic background who can support very able pupils with SEMH.

the role will be within the School classrooms however, you will also occasionally get the opportunity to go onto the ward if this is something you are interested in so this would be a fantastic opportunity and would look great on your CV! They are also OFSTED rated Outstanding.

This is a SEMH role so the pupils will have social, emotional and mental health needs for example anxiety, eating disorders, behavioural issues, depression etc

You would never be left alone with the pupils and will always have support from the Teacher as well as other members of staff within the classroom.

The hours of the role are 9:30am - 4:30am Monday - Friday.

Do let me know if you need any additional information.

We work both within and beyond the framework of the National Curriculum and plan closely with teachers in pupils’ home schools to ensure that learning is an integral part of pupils’ admissions and that stress around falling behind is minimised. We help pupils to continue to make progress in core subjects, whilst also encouraging understanding and appreciation of the arts, humanities and technology and developing their spiritual, moral, cultural and social education. We also mark national events and celebrations that would be familiar features of pupils’ home school calendars.

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.