Teaching Assistant / Support Worker – Children's Secure Unit

Looking for a role that's challenging, meaningful and different every day?

Protocol Education is recruiting Teaching Assistants and Support Workers to work in a specialist children's secure unit.

You'll support young people who may have complex emotional, behavioural and educational needs. Your role will be to provide stability, encouragement and consistency while helping them engage with education and develop positive skills for the future.

No two days will necessarily look the same.

What you'll be supporting with

• 1:1 support and supervision
• Classroom and educational activities
• Emotional regulation
• Behaviour support
• Communication and social development
• Positive routines and boundaries
• Individual targets and support plans
• Practical and life skills
• Building positive professional relationships
• Working alongside education and care professionals

What makes a successful candidate?

You'll need to be someone who can remain calm, professional and consistent, even when situations become challenging.

We're looking for:

• Resilience
• Patience
• Strong communication skills
• Emotional maturity
• Confidence setting boundaries
• A positive attitude
• Reliability
• Teamwork
• A genuine interest in supporting young people

Previous experience with challenging behaviour, SEND, SEMH, residential care, youth work or education is advantageous.

Join Protocol Education

We offer:

• Weekly PAYE pay
• FREE CPD Academy
• SEND, Autism and Behaviour training
• Dedicated consultant support
• Long-term and permanent opportunities
• Career development support
• Wellbeing guidance

If you're ready for a new challenge and want your work to have a real impact, apply today.

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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