SEN Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2025 |
| Location: | Mitcham/ Raynes Park, Surrey, CR4 3BE |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | fd6df18c-8b52-4cc3-a2c9-fd81f94b50d8 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate Teaching Assistant who is ambitious in creating a learning culture in which our pupils will feel valued and safe.
Do you:
• Have a passion for working with young people and their families
• Have a genuine desire to improve the lives of some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people in London
• Have previous experience working with SEN students and strong behavioural management skills
• Want to work with like-minded colleagues who put children at the centre of everything they do
• Consider yourself to be patient, compassionate, determined, kind, rigorous and hard-working
• Believe that education is about facilitating academic progress, personal development and life skills in a nurturing, structured environment
• Actively seek out ways to improve your practice
• Want to learn from children, as well as enable them to learn from you
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer you:
• A wonderfully supportive family of teaching, support, therapy and admin staff
• No more than 10 students in a class
• Young people who want to be in school and enjoy their time with us
• Supportive parents
• A huge building, redesigned and fully renovated to our specific requirements
• New, bespoke SEN facilities and resources
• On-site parking and secure cycle storage
• On-site gym (after school hours)
• A comprehensive induction programme for all new staff
• An extensive staff wellbeing programme
• A train station 5 minutes’ walk away (Wimbledon Chase)
• Weekly CPD
• Career progression within Whatley as we continue to grow, and across Melbury College
Further details about the role
Successful candidates will be responsible for:
• Working as a Teaching Assistant supporting learning and behaviour in lessons and unstructured times, fulfilling all duties as required by SLT
• Enable access to learning for pupils
• Assist the teacher in the preparation of resources and the management of pupils and the classroom
• Supervise external/internal examinations
• Work with pupils 1-1 or in small groups with regard to SEN needs, behaviour and learning
• To keep abreast of and share up-to-date theoretical knowledge and application in SEN to ensure pupils’ specific needs are met
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate Teaching Assistant who is ambitious in creating a learning culture in which our pupils will feel valued and safe.
Do you:
• Have a passion for working with young people and their families
• Have a genuine desire to improve the lives of some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people in London
• Have previous experience working with SEN students and strong behavioural management skills
• Want to work with like-minded colleagues who put children at the centre of everything they do
• Consider yourself to be patient, compassionate, determined, kind, rigorous and hard-working
• Believe that education is about facilitating academic progress, personal development and life skills in a nurturing, structured environment
• Actively seek out ways to improve your practice
• Want to learn from children, as well as enable them to learn from you
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer you:
• A wonderfully supportive family of teaching, support, therapy and admin staff
• No more than 10 students in a class
• Young people who want to be in school and enjoy their time with us
• Supportive parents
• A huge building, redesigned and fully renovated to our specific requirements
• New, bespoke SEN facilities and resources
• On-site parking and secure cycle storage
• On-site gym (after school hours)
• A comprehensive induction programme for all new staff
• An extensive staff wellbeing programme
• A train station 5 minutes’ walk away (Wimbledon Chase)
• Weekly CPD
• Career progression within Whatley as we continue to grow, and across Melbury College
Further details about the role
Successful candidates will be responsible for:
• Working as a Teaching Assistant supporting learning and behaviour in lessons and unstructured times, fulfilling all duties as required by SLT
• Enable access to learning for pupils
• Assist the teacher in the preparation of resources and the management of pupils and the classroom
• Supervise external/internal examinations
• Work with pupils 1-1 or in small groups with regard to SEN needs, behaviour and learning
• To keep abreast of and share up-to-date theoretical knowledge and application in SEN to ensure pupils’ specific needs are met
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.