Behaviour Support Worker

Job description

Behaviour Support Worker
Location: Wigan
Contract: Full-time, Monday to Friday
Hours: 8:30am – 3:30pm
Pay: £95-£110 per day
Start Date: February

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant / Behaviour Support Worker for a well-regarded SEMH provision in Wigan. You will be working in a 1 to 1 capacity with students who have complex emotional and behavioural needs. These students often come from traumatic backgrounds and are disengaged with mainstream education.
This school supports secondary aged students, and caters for students who can display particularly challenging behaviour.
Due to the nature of the students, you must be comfortable managing emotional dysregulation, challenging behaviour, and maintain a level of calmness when faced with aggression.
This is a position where you’ll have to manage high levels of challenging behaviour, this can include both verbal and phy...