SEND Teaching Assistant

Join a Fantastic Primary SEND School in Gateshead

Do you have the enthusiasm, patience, and dedication to support children with special educational needs?

We're recruiting for a Primary SEND Teaching Assistant to join a friendly and committed school team in Gateshead.

What You'll Do

• Support children with diverse learning and additional needs.
• Help pupils develop both academically and socially.
• Deliver focused one-to-one and small group support.
• Support classroom engagement and learning activities.
• Encourage confidence, independence, and resilience.

You'll Need

• Experience working with children.
• Excellent communication skills.
• A positive, proactive approach.
• A genuine desire to support pupils facing additional challenges.

Why You'll Love This Role

Every day is different, rewarding, and full of opportunities to celebrate pupil progress and success.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further 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.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the 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 FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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