Description
CERT Solutions are looking for enthusiastic, caring and committed SEN Learning Support Assistants to join a specialist college in Sutton Coldfield.
Working within a specialist post-16 education setting, you will support young people with a variety of additional needs, helping them navigate their learning journey, develop valuable life skills and achieve personal milestones along the way.
No two days will be the same, and this is an opportunity to be part of a team that puts individual needs, personal development and learner wellbeing at the heart of everything they do.
What makes this college different?
The college takes a highly personalised approach to education, ensuring that support is closely aligned with each learner’s Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Learners have a range of needs, including:
- Communication and Interaction: Supporting individuals with speech, language and communication difficulties, social interaction needs and autism.
- Cognition and Learning: Helping learners build their knowledge, develop functional skills and work towards personalised learning targets.
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH): Providing reassurance, emotional guidance and strategies to help learners feel safe, settled and ready to learn.
- Sensory and Physical Needs: Supporting learners with sensory and physical requirements, with access to facilities such as sensory cabins, wet rooms and therapeutic services.
What will you be doing?
As an SEN Learning Support Assistant, your role will be about much more than supporting learners in the classroom. You will be helping individuals overcome barriers, celebrate achievements and develop skills that can make a real difference to their future.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Providing tailored support on a 1:1 basis and within small groups.
- Helping learners participate in educational activities and develop their independence.
- Adapting your approach to suit individual communication and learning styles.
- Supporting emotional regulation and encouraging positive behaviour.
- Helping learners build confidence, social skills and relationships.
- Assisting with personal care where necessary.
- Following individual support strategies, EHCPs and learning targets.
- Working alongside teaching staff and other professionals to provide consistent, high-quality support.
What CERT Solutions can offer you:
- A dedicated consultant
- A trustworthy supply agency
- Great rates of pay (PAYE)
- Transparency and honesty
- Your ideal role as a supply teacher or teaching assistant
- A full time role
- Long term work
- Permanent roles if preferred
Our values as a supply teaching agency are very important to us and we expect all of our staff to follow our lead in being:
- Communicative
- Efficient
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
CERT Solutions is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to obtain an Enhanced Certificate of Disclosure from the DBS and be required to complete and pass Safeguarding and Prevent training level 2.
For more information or to apply, please call Ellie at the CERT Solutions office on 0121 728 6677 or email your CV to ellie@cert-solutions.co.uk.
