Special needs education teaching professionals
£38,586
Average salary
26 hours
Average weekly hours
1.75%
Unemployment rate
Definition: Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
*SOC Code (Standard Occupational Classification): 2316
Special and additional needs education teaching professionals organise and provide instruction at a variety of different levels to children who have emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties or physical disabilities. These professionals may also work with exceptionally gifted pupils.
Common tasks include:
- creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students
- assesses student’s abilities, identifies student’s needs and devises curriculum and rota of teaching duties accordingly
- gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student’s disability
- develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student’s needs
- encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability
- prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students’ progress
- supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline
- liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists
- updates and maintains students’ records to monitor development and progress
- discusses student’s progress with parents and other teaching professionals
Qualifications
Entry is with a first degree that provides QTS (qualified teacher status) or, in Scotland, TQ (teaching qualification); or other relevant degree followed by further postgraduate training (most commonly PGCE – Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education, or, in Scotland, PGDE – Professional Graduate Diploma in Education). Additionally, prior experience in mainstream teaching is usually required, and further training for special needs teaching may be mandatory. A DBS check is mandatory
*Introduced in 1990, SOC is a multi-purpose common classification of occupations in UK. Jobs are defined in terms of skill level and skill content, including qualifications, training and work experience.
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Top 12 industries: Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
Alternative & related job titles: Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
Behaviour support teacher Deputy head teacher (special/additional needs school) Learning support teacher Special educational needs coordinator Special needs teacher
Equality focus: Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
Breaking down the official government big data sources by gender, age and region. Hours and pay data based on full time equlivalent roles.
Breakdown by gender
£35,979
Female average annual salary
£44,321
Male average annual salary
25
Female average weekly hours
28
Male average weekly hours
Average pay per hour: Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
Workforce gender: Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
Breakdown by region
£42,757
South East (England) - highest annual average salary
£34,936
North East (England) - lowest annual average salary
27
Wales - Highest average weekly hours
25
North East (England) - Lowest average weekly hours
Average pay per week (£): Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
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Breakdown by age
20 years
Lowest annual salary (£16,686)
years
Highest annual salary (£0) at this age