Teaching Assistant

Are you a SEND teaching assistant with experience of working with children with Downs Syndrome? If you are an SEND specialist, or have strengths being a learning support assistant for children with Down Syndrome, this is the role for you!

From January, a Huddersfield Primary school is looking for a learning support assistant to work 1:1 with a girl in Year 1 with Down Syndrome.

Day to day for this SEND teaching assistant role:

• Supporting with behaviour
• Supporting child with learning through play and learning activities
• Interventions
• Some personal care

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

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