Teaching Assistant​/Trainee Teacher

How does a good starting salary, a supportive and inviting setting and fully funded training sound to you?

Do you want to make a difference and enjoy a role where no 2 days will every be the same?

Are you looking to join a fun, friendly and passionate team that can support you from day 1?

If yes was your answer then this is the school for you!

This specialist community specialist school is currently seeking a teaching assistant/SEN Trainee Teacher to join their team on a permanent basis ASAP. This role is needed due to a current member of the support team relocating. This inspiring school is a specialist independent provision that supports 90 pupils with Autism and associated needs. The school supports pupils from all walks of life from the age of 4-19 years.

It is both a primary and secondary provision. The school offers an inclusive, safe and inviting environment where every child can achieve, succeed and break down any boundaries that they might have encountered in mainstream education. This school benefits from a long standing senior leadership team with clear vision for the future in addition the school has been recently refurbished and now offers free flowing, bright and inviting learning environments classrooms, therapy and sensory rooms.

In this role as Teaching Assistant/ Trainee Teacher; your role will be to provide high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and sensory experiences through the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum to small groups or on a 1:1 basis. This is a training role. You will start as a 1:1 TA and over 1-2 years will be given the training and qualifications to become a member of the teaching team.

This role is needed Monday - Friday 08:45-4:45pm.

• Permanent role
• £1000 Welcome bonus
• Ready supply of cakes and biscuits in the welcoming staff room
• Termly staff outings/team building days
• Free onsite hot meals

• Creative, friendly and resilient individual who is committed to supporting learners with SEN
• Experience working or volunteering with children or young adults (desirable)
• GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent
• Eligibility to work in the UK

In this role as Trainee Teacher; your role will be to provide high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and sensory experiences through the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum to small groups on a 1:1 basis.

If you want to know more about this fabulous opportunity or wish to send us your application then please don't hesitate to apply now! To learn more about this role please call Bryony on

This role is open to receiving applications over the next two weeks. Within a week of the closing date, appropriate applicants will begin a three-stage interview process, after which shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend the final stage of the interview process with appropriate school leadership.