SEN Teaching Assistant

Role: Teaching Assistant - SEN
Location: Wimbledon
Pay rate: Up to £600 a week
Start date: September 2025

Horizon teachers are in partnership with a London Primary School in the Borough of Merton. This school recognise that well-being, happiness and personal development are the essential building blocks for children to become the very best they can be. They provide rich learning experiences that allow every child to master basic skills, discover and develop their talents and interests.

About the school:

• The curriculum aim ensures in each subject area is carefully organised and sequenced cumulatively so that new knowledge is built in small steps and linked to prior knowledge.
• Our curriculum is built around teachers using steady, step by step, explicit instruction and detailed explanations of worked examples, and giving students multiple opportunities for deliberate practice, including using use low stakes quizzing to revisit key knowledge and information that we know is vital for children to master.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Be an adaptable and ready to work in a variety of classroom roles, both indoors and outside according to individual need
• Taking a responsive and caring approach, you may be running classroom activities, leading outdoor experiences or supervising pupils as they explore further
• Collaborating with teacher to support students with diverse SEN needs, ensuring they make expected progress
• Creating an inclusive and engaging classroom environment that fosters learning and participation
• Using consistent behaviour management strategies aligned with the schools policies and student profiles

Why Horizon Teachers:

• We offer our support staff the highest rates up to £600 per week!
• Opportunities for professional development and growth
• We are like you! Here at Horizon Teachers, many of our consultants have experience in the education sector and have a strong passion for supporting schools, support staff and teachers

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.

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