SEN Teaching Assistant role for a Psychology Graduate in Newham – Education and Training – SEN Teaching Assistant role for a Psychology Graduate in Newham
Job Title: SEN Teaching Assistant role for a Psychology Graduate in Newham
Location: Newham
Salary Scale: £85-£90 per day
Start Date: 13/02/2023
End Date: Mid July 2023 with the opportunity to extend in September 2023
Contract type: Long Term Contract, 5 days a week, 8:30 – 16:00
This role is designed for a graduate who is sincere and wants to pursue restorative methods, with its foundation steeped in empathy. Being kind, fun, sociable – it seems very simple, these are 3 of the key skills that will enable you to excel within this role.
This Mental Health LSA role from GSL will give you experience of working with many students who have been through traumas, often missing substantial chunks of their schooling. Some students will have an attendance record of as low as 6% over the last academic year.
There is a real and sustained focus on Restorative Practices in this school, the approach is very much to fort before looking at academics and content.
You will be working with girls and boys who will have been through a number of traumas, your role will be to build trusting, solid relationships, while you demonstrate the value of their education to them. For example, you could be working with a child who has been manipulated into running county lines, they at least need to be shown how vital their education is.
All candidates will have a Child and Adult Enhanced DBS processed by GSL, or if you have one already in place, we will be able to start the trial process even faster! This role is aimed at Graduates who have sincere aspirations within Trauma and Mental Health, being pragmatic, this is a role where you won’t be able to help every child. That’s through no fault of yours or the child, that is likely die to the nature of the adult world that the child has been exposed to and let down by.
This is a very challenging role, any experience of working with charities like Hestia and Nacro would be of real interest. LSA role is also suitable if you are a graduate who is as an aspiring Youth Justice Officer or looking to be in the field of Outreach Work!
This role will evolve an awful lot, ideal experience pre or post your degree or a MSc, especially to qualify and disqualify the sector!
Ideal for a Psychology, Sociology and Criminology graduates, this role should give you good experience with SEN students and within mental health before embarking on an MSc of your choice.
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service.
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SEN Teaching Assistant role for a Psychology Graduate in Newham – Education and Training – SEN Teaching Assistant role for a Psychology Graduate in Newham
***Mixed school, ages 5-16, Social, Emotional and Mental Health, Trauma and Restorative practices
***CPD provided by GSL and the school, training from the school progresses after the first 2 weeks
***Watching and Learning from some of the best SEMH and Restorative practitioners in SEN education
***Tapping into the interest of each child, what brings out a spark in them – Hairdressing to Gaming to Sport to Photography to Therapeutic Lego work
***Working in small, focused classes of 3-6, all LSAs are 1:2 with their students
***Focus on core subjects, big focus on functional Maths and Literacy – the students need to be able to use these skills in the wider world, not just for a grade
***Working with very vulnerable children, will each have a different context, EHCPs for their mental health and potential Special Educational Needs
***Restorative and holistic processes woven into the children’s learning, focused on vocational, core
SEN Teaching Assistant role for a Psychology Graduate in Newham – Education and Training – SEN Teaching Assistant role for a Psychology Graduate in Newham