SEND Teaching Assistant Complex Needs

SEND Teaching Assistant – Complex Needs

Evesham | Immediate Start | Long-Term

At Long-Term Teachers, we are seeking a dedicated and compassionate SEND Teaching Assistant to provide 1:1 support for a KS1 pupil with complex needs in a welcoming primary school in Evesham.

About the Role

This is a long-term position working closely with the class teacher and SENCO to provide tailored support for a child with complex needs, which may include communication difficulties, sensory processing differences, medical needs, and social, emotional and behavioural challenges.

The role will involve:

• Supporting learning and development through personalised strategies.
  
   
• Implementing structured routines to provide consistency and reassurance.
  
   
• Assisting with emotional regulation and behaviour management.
  
   
• Providing support with communication, interaction, and sensory needs.
  
   
• Liaising with external professionals (where required) to follow support plans.
  
   
• Ensuring a safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment at all times.
  
   

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for individuals with proven experience supporting children with complex SEND/SEMH needs, ideally in a school or care-based setting. The right candidate will bring patience, resilience, and creativity to the role.

Essential qualities include:

• Experience working with children with complex needs (communication, sensory, medical, or behavioural).
  
   
• Strong behaviour management skills and a calm, consistent approach.
  
   
• A nurturing and empathetic mindset, with a passion for inclusive education.
  
   
• Flexibility and adaptability to respond to individual needs.
  
   
• The ability to work collaboratively with teaching staff and external professionals.
  
   
• Patience, resilience, and a proactive attitude.

Working with Long-term Teachers:

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.

LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.

We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.

In addition you will receive:

- Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities

- Permanent job roles

- Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process

- Working to Agency Workers Regulations

- Interview preparation, advice and support

- Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay