Advanced Teaching Assistant - Bespoke Futures Project
Forest Moor School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2RA15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
10 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
25 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,245.00 - £29,064.00 Annually (FTE) Actual annual salary £23,626 - £25,195, plus SEN allowance £1,261
Advanced Teaching Assistant - Bespoke Futures Project job summary
Advanced Teaching Assistant - Bespoke Futures Project at Forest Moor School
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children? We are seeking a dedicated and proactive Advanced Teaching Assistant to join our innovative Bespoke Futures Project.
About UsAt Forest Moor School, we are dedicated to transforming lives and providing exceptional, inclusive education. As part of the Wellspring Academy Trust, we believe in removing barriers to learning and ensuring that every child, regardless of their background or challenges, has equal access to an enriching education.
We are based at Menwith Hill, just outside of Harrogate and are a Key Stage 2 - 4 provision with around 96 students on role. We work in beautiful surroundings and now with a lovely building that is continuing to be refurbished to suit the needs of our students
The Role:The post of Advanced Teaching Assistant is a key post in supporting the learning and general wellbeing as part of a close team alongside the classroom teacher. We operate using nurture principles and our students spend the vast majority of their week in the same room with their classroom tutor. When they move to a specialist subject our TAs move with the class to support the specialist teacher and provide that in depth continuity throughout the day.
Class sizes are a maximum of 9 so you will have the opportunity to develop close relationships with your students which is at the core of everything we do at Forest Moor. To be successful, you will need to be able to form excellent relationships with our SEMH students, parents and the wider staff. This is both a challenging but immensely rewarding post with Unconditional Positive Regard is at the centre of everything we do and the successful candidate must have the personal qualities and resilience to work in this ethos.
Key ResponsibilitiesTargeted Interventions: Plan and deliver intensive, off-site and in-home support frameworks tailored to individual student needs.
Community Engagement: Facilitate safe community visits and liaise sensitively with parents, carers and key stakeholders to build a supportive learning network.
Risk & Safety Management: Adhere strictly to Home Learning Agreements and ensure rigorous, approved Evolve Risk Assessments are in place before any off-site trips.
Academic & Pastoral Support: Lead learning sessions, deliver curriculum areas (such as PSHE), provide 1:1 mentoring and support pupils' social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) needs.
Tracking & Progress: Monitor, track, and accurately record student intervention data providing clear feedback on progress, behaviour and attendance.
Experience: Proven experience working with children of a relevant age.
Qualifications: Level 2 qualification or equivalent.
Skills: Excellent communication (spoken and written English) and strong ICT skills to track progress data.
Behaviour & Engagement: A deep understanding of the reasons affecting student behaviour and the ability to implement positive behaviour and re-engagement strategies for reluctant learners.
Teamwork & Adaptability: Ability to personalise learning, work collaboratively within a multi-agency framework and openly participate in the school's specialist CPD offer.
Forest Moor and the wider Trust places a huge emphasis on professional development and invests significantly in staff training at all levels. This means that, although experience of working in an SEMH setting would be an advantage, specialist support and training will be provided for outstanding candidates wishing to make the career fulfilling move into special education.
If you would like to discuss or find out more about this post, please contact Natalie Sargeson - Interim Co-Head, at Forest Moor School, via email n.sargeson@forestmoor.org.uk
Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview.
Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.
Further information about the job
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.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Forest Moor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 9 to 16
- School size
- 103 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Forest Moor School website
Forest Moor is an SEMH special based at Menwith Hill, just outside of Harrogate. It is a Key Stage 2 – 4 provision with around 96 students on role in beautiful surroundings and now with a lovely building that is continuing to be refurbished to suit the needs of our students.
Our aim is to provide the best possible care and education that we can for children and young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. Unconditional Positive Regard is at the centre of what we do and we are creating an academy that is welcoming, caring, safe, warm and believes that all its pupils can be supported and empowered to succeed. We are creating individual and personalised pathways for our students that are built around their varied needs which will help them achieve positive outcomes and prepare them for their onward destinations into continuing education, work or training. In order to achieve this, we have developed a curriculum that provides opportunities for academic progression as well as vocational learning, whilst being engaging, creative, and innovative.
We see strong relationships as the key to our success – with students, parents, carers and the wider community and we ensure that our school is a welcoming safe place for children to learn and prosper. We believe in working closely with our families and carers and welcome their support, but also realise that at times they will need our support too. We work closely with other agencies and schools to make sure we do all we can to make learning and life the best it possibly can be.
Forest Moor and the wider Trust places a huge emphasis on professional development and invests significantly in staff training at all levels. This means that, although experience of working in an SEMH setting would be an advantage, specialist support and training will be provided for outstanding candidates wishing to make the career fulfilling move into special education.
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