Mayflower Education has lots of jobs available for SEN practitioners within Mainstream, Special Schools, Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and Alternative Education Providers for Special Educational Needs.

Co-ordinators (SENCO’s),SEN Teachers, Learning Mentors, one to one tutors and other support staff. SEN covers a broad spectrum of difficulty or disability.

Children may have wide-ranging or specific problems. For example, a child might have difficulty with one area of learning, such as letters or numbers, or they might have problems relating to other children, or adults.

For this type of work you will need to be able to deal with challenging behaviour and have good organisational skills,including an awareness of best practise classroom management strategies and subject differentiation in addition to more specialist skills.