SEN Reception Teaching Assistant - St Austell - Primary

2nd November start
Full Time
Posted 1 day ago
Expiring 18th December
Cornwall
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🌟 SEN Teaching Assistant – Reception Class | St Austell 🌟 Are you an experienced SEN Teaching Assistant looking for your next rewarding opportunity? We’re working with a lovely primary school in St Austell who are looking for a strong, caring and confident SEN TA to join their Reception class. Due to the high level of additional needs within the class, the school is looking for someone with previous SEN experience who can hit the ground running and provide the right support to help every child thrive. ❤️ ✨ The Details: 📍 Location: St Austell 📅 Start date: Monday 2nd November ⏳ Duration: Until at least Christmas, with the potential to become permanent for the right person! 📆 Days: Monday to Friday (5 days per week) 🕣 Hours: 8:30am – 3:30pm 💛 The Ideal Candidate: - Has previous experience supporting children with SEN. - Is confident managing and supporting a range of additional needs. - Is patient, nurturing and resilient, with a genuine passion for helping young children learn and develop. - Can provide consistent, tailored support within a busy Reception environment. - Is proactive, adaptable and able to work closely with the class teacher and wider school team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a welcoming school where you can make a real difference during those crucial early years of education, with the possibility of a longer-term or permanent position for the right candidate. 📩 Interested? Get in touch today to find out more or send over your CV. We’d love to hear from you! Tom Hooper @ Zen Educate - Tom.hooper@zeneducate.com - 01872 279810 #SEN #TeachingAssistant #EducationJobs #StAustell #CornwallJobs #PrimaryEducation #SENJobs
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We are proud to be part of Kernow Learning – which includes 20 Primary schools where we can share resources, ideas and training opportunities to ensure the best education and opportunities for our children. Together we are building a foundation for lighting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning where they can flourish, thrive and form friendships with nature inspired learning at the heart of all we do. Our unique and innovative curriculum, incorporating national programmes of study, aims to offer exceptional education using enquiry based learning, enriched with sustainability, global citizenship and thereby pushing out the classroom walls. We are so lucky to have such an amazing environment and heritage in which to build our knowledge and skills with inspiring real-life experts to help us. At the very roots of our education is our partnership with the Eden Project where our Nursery children can enjoy exploring, play based opportunities and our outdoors environment. We know this approach leads to significant benefits for children’s health, happiness and well being. Our School values flow through our everyday ways of being – inspiring, creative, active, nurturing, connected and curious and include children, families and our community. We are ambitious and know that Sky Primary children will be able to make a difference to the world they live in with a teaspoons of change approach – making a difference one step at a time. We will equip them to be solution focused citizens who can think globally and act locally – working for a cleaner, fairer and healthier planet.

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I don't have recent references, can I still sign up?

You can definitely still sign up! Once you've uploaded your CV, we'll be able to look at your experience, and help you figure out who would be best placed to act as your referees.

Roles

What roles do you cover?

We help Teachers, Teaching Assistants, and Cover Supervisors find work. We work with all types of schools and help with short-term, long-term and permanent roles. Many of our long-term roles convert to permanent roles. We make it far easier than a traditional agency for teachers to convert temporary positions into permanent ones.

What areas do you cover?

We work with over 400 schools in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds.

How much work is there?

Generally speaking, we have consistently high demand for daily supply teachers in Greater London, Manchester Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds. Teaching assistant work is generally higher for long-term roles rather than daily supply cover.

Do you have primary, secondary or nursery jobs?

Yes. We can help with daily supply and long-term jobs in nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools. We don't typically have jobs in further education or college.

Do you have work for cover supervisors, invigilators, or school administrators?

While the majority of our work is for teachers and teaching assistants, we do also have work for cover supervisors and invigilators. Explain what you are looking for when you sign up and our team will help you.

What subjects do you cover?

We cover all subjects taught in primary and secondary schools - if you're not sure if we can help you with what you're looking for, please register and arrange to speak to a member of our Teacher Success team.

Do you do school admin jobs?

If you're looking for teaching or teaching assistant roles, and would also be interested in admin roles, it's worth letting us know. If you're only looking for admin roles, we might not be the place for you, as this isn't what we specialise in.

General

How is Zen different from a recruitment agency?

Zen Educate is a technology platform to connect teachers with schools directly. Agencies are an expensive middleman between schools and teachers. They have to charge high commissions because their booking procedures are largely manual and run on outdated systems. Because we run more of the process online or on your phone, we create an experience that delights schools and teachers at a fraction of the cost.

What roles do you cover?

Start a conversation on chat or email support@zeneducate.com and our friendly team will get back to you shortly.