Special and additional needs education teaching professionals Pay Data UK — 2024

Special and additional needs education teaching professionals roles in the UK earn a median of £38,744 per year, equivalent to £25.17 per hour as of 2024. This represents a 12.5% increase in annual pay compared to the previous year. Pay varies across the UK, ranging from £28,647 to £54,781 per year.

How Pay Varies Across the UK

Each bar shows how many areas of the UK have a median annual pay in that range for Special and additional needs education teaching professionals roles. The dashed line marks the national median.

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About Special and additional needs education teaching professionals

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.

Typical Tasks and Duties

• 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

Entry Routes and 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

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Salary data is sourced from official UK pay datasets and updated periodically.