SEND teaching assistant

SEND teaching assistant sought for Huddersfield Primary school to support a girl in Year 1 with global development delay and absence seizures.

Are you a learning support assistant with experience of working with SEND children? If you are an SEND specialist in another field or have personal experience you can tranfer your skills from, or already have experience being a learning support assistant for children with global development delay or epilepsy, this is the role for you!

After May half term (or asap after that), a Huddersfield Primary school is looking for a learning support assistant to work 1:1 with a girl in Year 1 with global development delay and epilepsy.

Day to day for this learning support assistant role:

• Supporting with mobility around the school
• First Aid during absence seizures (training where needed) and after care (reassurance, emotional support, calming down techniques)
• Supporting child with learning activities
• Supporting child with communicating effectively

As a learning support assistant you will show strong pastoral and emotional support for your pupil, as well as being vigilant to her cues and needs which will mean able to think on the spot and being flexible with her timetable. The pupil will require some personal care and occasional First Aid.

Does this sound like the perfect role for you in Huddersfield? Then you could be this pupil's new learning support assistant as soon as possible and really make her school day a positive experience. Get in touch today!