Key responsibilities
* Support the delivery of adapted and differentiated lessons by working alongside teaching staff to scaffold learning, break tasks into manageable steps, and reinforce key concepts so that students with SEND can access the curriculum at their level.
* Use SEND‑appropriate teaching strategies, including visual supports, modelling, structured routines, multisensory activities and chunked instruction to promote engagement and understanding.
* Encourage positive learning behaviours and classroom participation by creating predictable routines, offering reassurance, reducing cognitive load, and supporting pupils who may need additional processing time or communication support.
* Implement approaches that develop communication, independence and practical skills, embedding life‑skills within lessons where appropriate.
* Work collaboratively with specialist TAs, therapists and the wider SEND team to maintain consistent strategies aligned with pupils’ EHCP outcomes and individual learning profiles.
Pre-requisites:
* Experience teaching, tutoring or delivering structured learning activities to children or young people with SEND, either in specialist schools, mainstream SEND departments, Resource Bases, alternative provision, tutoring environments or informal education settings.
* Understanding of how SEND needs (e.g., autism, MLD, communication & interaction, sensory needs) impact learning, processing, engagement and behaviour, and the ability to respond with calm, consistent and structured strategies.
* Knowledge of a range of active teaching and learning strategies, including modelling, scaffolding, chunking, visual support, concrete resources and differentiated instruction.
* Relevant qualifications such as QTS / QQTS (preferred), Level 2 teaching assistant, youth work, or other SEND‑related training
Salary description
£150.00 - £220.00 per year