Job Description:

Level 3 Teaching Assistant – Specialist SEND Provision

Location: Gateshead
Job Type: Full Time, Term Time Only
Start Date: September 2026
Pay: £120 - 140 per day, dependent on experience

Your next step in specialist SEND education

Are you an experienced Level 3 Teaching Assistant looking for a more specialist and varied role?

Protocol Education are working with a specialist provision in Gateshead that is looking for a confident TA to support children and young people with physical and/or medical needs.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, working as part of a specialist team and finding practical ways to help children access their education.

What Makes This Role Different?

You'll have the opportunity to develop specialist experience in:

• Physical and medical needs.
• Assistive technology.
• Specialist ICT.
• Accessible learning.
• Communication aids.
• Specialist equipment.
• Independence and life skills.
• Multi-agency working.

The Role Includes

• Supporting children and young people to access learning.
• Adapting activities and resources to individual needs.
• Supporting pupils with physical and medical considerations.
• Using and implementing assistive technology.
• Setting up and checking specialist equipment.
• Supporting alternative methods of communication and recording.
• Helping pupils develop independence.
• Working with specialist teachers, schools, families and professionals.
• Monitoring pupil progress and providing feedback.
• Ensuring equipment and support strategies are used safely.

Essential Criteria

• Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent.
• Experience working with children or young people with SEND.
• Experience supporting physical and/or medical needs.
• Good communication and organisational skills.
• Confidence using ICT and learning new technology.
• Ability to adapt quickly and work across different settings.
• Full, clean driving licence and access to a vehicle – essential due to the nature of the role.

If you're ready to take your TA experience into a specialist, varied and genuinely rewarding role, we'd love to hear from you.

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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