Young Person Support Assistant

3 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom Teaching Personnel Full time

Young Person Support Assistant

Location: Preston

Pay: £12.90 - £13.50 per hour

Hours: 8:30am - 3:30pm / Monday – Friday

Start date: May 2024

We are seeking compassionate, proactive support workers to join our team in helping young people to access the school curriculum and wider world. The successful candidate will provide support and guidance for pupils with ASD and associated learning and communication needs. The school strives to equip pupils with skills and knowledge to give them the best opportunity for success in life. This is a career for someone who is looking for an opportunity to shape the next generation and understands the challenges these young people might be facing.

Your role will be classroom based, assisting the class teacher with day-to-day routines, delivering interventions as guided and adapting to each child’s individual needs each day. 

Could this be the next step for you? Please share your CV with us and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

We will support you with:

  • Offering relevant training, including autism awareness and Team-Teach.
  • Ensuring we find the right setting to suit your skills and location.
  • Ongoing support from your consultant throughout the vetting checks and applying for a DBS

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.
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