SEN Secondary Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant – SEN

Salary: £24,139.67 - £25,819.26 actual salary dependant on qualifications and experience Plus £1000 Welcome bonus*

Position Type: Permanent Full-Time Term Time Only

Location: Redhill, Surrey 

Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Start time 8.15am - Finish time Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 4.45pm. Thursday 5pm and Friday 4pm

Teaching Personnel are working alongside a brand new SEND Secondary School that opened in September 2025 in Redhill, Surrey for young people aged 11-16 who require support with social communication, emotional regulation and sensory processing, typically associated with Autism. All students have access to a broad and exciting curriculum, personalised to meet their needs, interests and passions. With a model of small classes, high levels of classroom support and a supernumerary multi-disciplinary intervention team we are able to give studentS every opportunity to achieve. This is an exciting opportunity to join a school at the start of their journey.

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 wellbeing 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.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

What we're looking for:

• GCSE Maths and English qualification minimum Grade 4 or equivalent is essential.
• L2 award in supporting teaching and learning in schools or equivalent or willingness to work towards 
• Previous experience of working within a relevant SEND Provision is desirable but not essential
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures 
• Experience of managing a range of approaches to behaviour, including managing behaviours that challenge. 
• Experience working within education is advantageous  

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Teaching Personnel is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

* Welcome bonus is payable in 2 payments - 50% following successful completion of probation and 50% after one year service

If this role ticks all the boxes for your perfect role, apply today!

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