Teaching Assistant

EmpowerED is recruiting for a Teaching Assistant in Bracknell to join a fantastic specialist SEND school supporting children and young people with severe and profound learning difficulties and complex additional needs.

This Teaching Assistant role in Bracknell is a brilliant opportunity for someone who wants a genuinely varied and rewarding role where you'll help young people develop their communication, confidence, independence and essential life skills.

The Teaching Assistant role

As a Teaching Assistant in Bracknell, you'll work as part of an experienced specialist classroom team, supporting pupils throughout their school day.

This isn't simply a classroom-based role. Learning is highly personalised and could see you supporting everything from sensory activities and communication to PE, life skills and accessing the wider community.

Your day could include:

* Supporting pupils with severe and profound learning difficulties

* Providing 1:1 and small-group support

* Helping pupils access sensory circuits and sensory-based learning

* Supporting communication and interaction

* Encouraging independence and essential life skills

* Supporting pupils with emotional and sensory regulation

* Helping pupils access PE and physical activities

* Supporting personal care where required

* Accompanying pupils on community activities, trips and off-site learning

* Using positive behaviour approaches to support pupils when they become dysregulated

* Working closely with teachers, therapists and other specialist professionals

A school where independence really matters

This Teaching Assistant vacancy in Bracknell is within a specialist environment where education is about much more than academic progress.

The school's personalised curriculum places pupils' EHCP outcomes at its centre and focuses on communication, academics, life skills, employability, nurture, therapies and social development.

As a Teaching Assistant, you'll play an important part in helping pupils make progress in the areas that matter most to their individual lives.

Who are we looking for?

For this Teaching Assistant role in Bracknell, we're looking for someone who is caring, engaging, patient, resilient and positive.

Previous specialist school experience would be fantastic, but we're also interested in people with transferable experience from areas such as:

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