Are you passionate about supporting children to reach their full potential in a safe and caring environment? Do you have experience working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)? If so, we are looking for a Level 2 Teaching Assistant.
Location: Chaldon, Surrey
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary & Hours
... - Actual Annual Salary: £23,210 - £24,818 (actual salary dependent on qualifications and experience)
- Plus: £1,000 Welcome bonus*
- Hourly Rate: £12.99 - £13.89 per hour
- Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only
Schedule:
Start time: 8:15 am daily
Finish time: 4:45 pm (Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday), 5:00 pm (Thursday), and 4:00 pm (Friday)
About the Opportunity
As part of a growth strategy, The School Group is delighted to be opening a brand new SEND Secondary School in September 2025 in Chaldon, Surrey. This facility will cater for young people aged 11-16 who require support with social communication, emotional regulation, and sensory processing, typically associated with Autism.
All the students have access to a broad and exciting curriculum, aligned with the national curriculum, and personalised to meet their needs, interests, and passions. Our model of small classes, high levels of classroom support, and a supernumerary multi-disciplinary intervention team is designed to give students "every opportunity to achieve."
We are looking to recruit Teaching Assistants to join the team at this exciting new school. This is an incredible opportunity to join the school at the very start of its journey. You will be based at the main Chaldon site with a requirement to work out of our satellite site in Caterham when required.
The main purpose of the role:
The purpose of the Teaching Assistant is to support the children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.
Key duties:
- Take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare and positive well being of pupils according to the school's policies, including safeguarding and PREVENT.
- Provide meaningful feedback on pupil behaviour, relationships and attitudes.
- Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children.
- Establish a positive relationship with pupils in order to support them in feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn.
- Promote and encourage independence and personal development and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times and support in the achievement of this.
- Implement, and when appropriate, adjust learning activities as agreed with the teacher. Reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
- Support learning by arranging/providing resources for lessons/activities under the direction of the teacher.
- Implement learning activities and experiences, appropriate to the class group, by supporting the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning.
