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Teaching Personnel
SEN Teaching Assistant
Darwen, Lancashire
- Hours
- Full Time
- Posted
- 1 day ago
- Salary
- £13.75 - 14.50 - Hour
- Recruiter
- Teaching Personnel
- Closes
- 04 Oct 2025
- Course
- No
- Recruiter Type
- Direct Employer
Description
Job Title: SEN Teaching Assistant
Pay: £13.75 - £14.50 per hour
Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm
Location: Darwen
Provision: Alternative provision
The Role
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Teaching Assistant to join a supportive educational environment. In this role, you will play a vital part in supporting children’s learning and overall wellbeing, ensuring every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a safe and caring setting.
Your responsibilities will include providing tailored support to individual children, which may involve care needs and positive behaviour management. You will establish warm and trusting relationships with pupils, promoting their sense of safety, enjoyment, independence, and personal development, while maintaining high expectations of behaviour at all times.
Key Duties
Participate in the planning and evaluation of learning activities.
Provide meaningful feedback on pupil attainment and progress.
Support the teacher with monitoring, assessing, recording, and reporting pupils’ progress in line with school policies.
Encourage positive behaviour and concentration, adapting your responses as necessary to manage behavioural changes or escalations.
Promote spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development, alongside British values, within the PSHE framework.
Support pupils’ cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural, physical development, and spiritual wellbeing through a whole-day curriculum.
If you are interested in this position, please click apply now and Keira will be in touch within 48hours to discuss next steps.
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
For details of our privacy policy, please visit the Teaching Personnel website
Ad ID: 5416901432
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