SEMH Specialist Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,254.00 to £28,598.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 27254 - 28598 |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Location: | The South Wolds Academy & Sixth Form, NG12 5FF |
| Company: | Vacancy Filler |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | NOV20257525 |
Summary
SEMH (Social, Emotional and Mental Health) Specialist Teaching AssistantScale 4 £27,254 - £28,598 pro rata (actual starting salary £23,704.81 pa)37 hours per week - term time onlyStart Date - As Soon As PossibleSouth Wolds is a high attaining semi-rural popular school located in the village of Keyworth in Nottinghamshire which is only 6 miles from West Bridgford. We are also a founding partner of the East Midlands Education Trust, committed to providing a first-class education for all of our students.Our ideal SEMH Specialist Teaching Assistant might already have experience in a mainstream secondary school setting, or you might have worked with children and young people with behavioural difficulties in other settings. We welcome applications from colleagues with primary or secondary experience who are versatile enough to deliver a range of subjects. Our approach at South Wolds is to find the right people, with the right attitude and personality, and we will train you to work with the rest of our staff to ensure all students are supported and able to achieve.Applicants should be creative and resilient, ready to get stuck into everything, and work as a team and independently. You will need to be someone who is happy to do whatever it takes to ensure that all students make great progress academically as well as with their SEMH differences.We are looking for someone who wants to make a difference with children and young people, who enjoys spending time with them, and who is excited to share learning with them. You will need to be able to stay calm under pressure and maintain positive relationships with young people who may display challenging behaviour. At South Wolds we believe that all behaviour is communication, and that children who present with challenging behaviour need additional care and support. We believe in taking a trauma-informed, relational approach, as the majority of students you will be working with have had adverse childhood experiences. On the application form, please focus on a detailed 'supporting statement' taking into account the person specification and indicating why you would be the best person for us to recruit to this position.For further information regarding the post, or to arrange an informal discussion about the post, please contact Gail Burrows at gburrows@southwolds.co.uk or call the school office on 0115 937 3506The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post, will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken during the recruitment process and this may include online searches.We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.Closing date for receipt of applications is 9:00am on Wednesday 10th December 2025.Interviews to be held shortly after this date.We reserve the right to interview suitable candidates prior to that date. Should this prove successful we may close to new applicants earlier so please don’t delay in submitting your application.