Behavioural Secondary Support Assistant

Learning Support Assistant – Lancing – SEMH School

Start Date: September 2025
Location: Lancing
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 4:00pm
Pay: £95.82 per day
Contract: 12-week temp-to-perm via Pink Tile Education

This friendly SEMH school in Lancing is on the lookout for confident, committed, and caring individuals to join their supportive team. Students here may display challenging behaviour and require firm but kind boundaries, consistency, and trust-building.

Ideal for someone with life experience, care background, youth work or personal exposure to supporting children with SEMH or additional needs. You’ll play a vital role in helping students feel safe, understood, and ready to learn.

Your Responsibilities:

• Supporting children aged 6–16 with social, emotional, and behavioural challenges

• De-escalating behaviour and offering structured, predictable support

• Helping children access learning in a calm, supportive way

• Providing emotional regulation strategies and positive reinforcement

• Contributing to behaviour plans and support strategies

You’ll Need:

• • Strong communication skills and a calm, consistent presence

  • Patience, flexibility, and a sense of humour

  • Experience supporting children or young adults with additional needs

  • Confidence working in a structured behaviour-led environment

Apply today!

If you are a compassionate, proactive, and enthusiastic individual with a genuine desire to support students with SEMH and SEN needs, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding role.

Important Notice:
For you to be successful in applying for the above position you should be eligible to work in the UK or hold a relevant work visa. Safeguarding, quality and integrity are at the heart of what we do. Pink Tile is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within education. During the application process, you will be required to:

• Provide details for us to complete reference checks prior to employment.

• Provide an Enhanced DBS on the update service or be willing to obtain one (which Pink Tile can assist with).

Pink Tile Education, their schools and candidates all share the view of “Best Fit, Every Time” and our role is to ensure that every candidate we place has a positive impact on the team of their new employers.
We have a policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we sometimes cannot reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time, your application may have been unsuccessful on this specific occasion, but we encourage you to apply for positions that you may see in the future. Alternatively, please check missed calls and all your email folders as it may have been that we have tried to reach you. Thank you.