1:1 Resource Base Teaching Assistant

The John of Gaunt School, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 9EH

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  17 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,409.00 - £28,163.00 Annually (FTE) Per annum pro rata

1:1 Resource Base Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking to appoint a 1:1 Resource Base Teaching Assistant to join our vibrant and highly respected Individual Learning Department to support students with their learning. The post will be in our Communication and Interaction Resource Provision. You will be an excellent communicator with a good general education and strong interpersonal skills, to work with students with social, interaction and communication difficulties.

Key responsibilities include supporting students learning, either in lessons, small groups or through 1:1 work as well as supporting the development of their self-esteem, inclusion and behaviour. A commitment to help all young people and staff to achieve their best and a shared belief in our inclusive ethos is expected of all staff.

Hours of work will be 32.5 hours per week for 39 weeks per year.

Main Job Purpose

Under the direction of the teacher/s, to support a designated student with mobility needs to access learning.

Supporting the student to move around the school site in a wheelchair.

Support the student as they are ascending and descending stairs

Guiding the student through Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy exercises.

Duties and responsibilities

Clarify and explain instructions to children

Ensure children can use the equipment and materials provided

Motivate and support children

Meeting the student’s physical needs as required while promoting independence.

Supporting children’s self-esteem, inclusion, and behavioural development

Encourage an acceptance and inclusion of all children

Develop methods of promoting / reinforcing the children’s self-esteem and independence

Encouraging acceptance and inclusion of the student with special needs

Ensuring the student is able to use equipment and materials provided

Supporting the teacher

Supervising work

Managing children’s behaviour

Responding to children’s questions

Health and safety

Promote the safety and wellbeing of all children

Maintain a safe learning environment by managing behaviour effectively in accordance with the Trust’s behaviour policy

Our values

Kindness

At The John of Gaunt School we nurture, recognise and celebrate the important quality of being generous, helpful, and caring towards other people that is essential in our society today.

Positivity

Being optimistic in attitude is crucial for any person to be successful at any stage of their life. We believe that positivity breeds positivity, and so we foster this trait in all members of our school.

Belonging

All our staff and students must be happy and comfortable within our community at The John of Gaunt School. We want every member to feel welcome and accepted so that they can flourish.

Ethos and Culture

We are a highly inclusive school that blends nurturing individual care with high standards and expectations. Our students are proud of their school and are happy, ambitious inquisitive learners. They thrive on a curriculum and character education programme that takes place in classrooms, and includes clubs, trips and activities. Our ethos is underpinned by strong relationships between students, parents, carers, staff and governors, who all work tirelessly together to ensure students develop their individual characteristics to be successful at school and beyond.

Please note that early applications are encouraged and the school reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement. CVs will not be considered.

This role will involve contact with children and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed. We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted.

This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow Safer Recruitment procedures and all interviews, regardless of role, will include questions about approaches to safeguarding. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available on our website and follows all guidance in the most recent Keeping Children Safe in Education.

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exception Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Please note that by submitting an application, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to view any publicly available information published online (including social media platforms) as part of our shortlisting process, in line with current KCSIE guidelines.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. A copy of the school’s Safeguarding Children in Our School Policy and our Policy and Code of Conduct for Safe Practice are available on our website. An online profile search will be conducted and references will be sought on all shortlisted candidates prior to interview.

The post is subject to receipt of an enhanced DBS to include children's barred list checks. Disclosure will contain details of formal cautions, reprimands and final warnings, as well as convictions.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The John of Gaunt School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1252 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The John of Gaunt School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-john-of-gaunt-school

The John of Gaunt School is large and dynamic school with approximately 1270 students on roll. We are currently a single Academy and actively promote collaboration with our feeder primary schools through the Trowbridge Schools’ Social Enterprise - Collaborative Schools Ltd and the West Wiltshire Alliance; a partnership of 8 secondary schools and Wiltshire College. Our school roll is rising significantly each year and our reputation has accelerated over the last two years. We are now at the forefront educational practice and we are delighted that our recent changes are accelerating the progress of our students. We are part EQUA Mead Learning Trust. Details about EQUA Mead can be found on their website https://www.equamead.org/

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