Graduate SEN Teaching Assistant / Learning Support Assistant

Vision for Education, a leading Supply Teaching Agency, are looking to recruit Teaching Assistants and Learning Support Assistants to work within SEN Schools in the Newcastle area. This position is ideal for any recent graduates who are thinking of pursuing a career within education or teaching, and who want to gain more experience within a school environment.

Our dedicated SEN Team are experienced in placing staff in the right schools, ensuring that the schools’ and staffs’ needs are best met. We offer the best rates of pay in the area to ensure we place the right people in the right schools. It is this philosophy that is helping us to rapidly build and maintain relationships between ourselves, our staff, and the schools we work with.

We are looking for people who can react and adapt quickly to challenging behaviours and situations in a professional manner. As well as units for behavioural issues, we also work in schools for children with varying degrees of Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) as well as students with Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) – experience in one or more of these areas is desirable.

In return you will find an incredibly varied and ultimately rewarding role with benefits such as:

Excellent and transparent rates for both staff and schools
Free CPD Courses, seminars and training courses such as Team Teach, Moving & Handling, and Safeguarding to continue your individual professional development
Dedicated team that work with our supply staff to place them in schools and locations that suit them
Wages paid directly into bank account every week via PAYE
We are an agency that won’t charge your school a fee, should they want to offer you a permanent contract; we won’t stand in the way of your career

Ideal candidates should be available for 5 days each week and should drive and should be available to start readily, once our registration process is complete. Applicants must hold a current enhanced DBS certificate or be willing to undergo one and have it registered on the Update Service.