Higher Level Teaching Assistant (SENCO)

Telscombe Cliffs Academy, Peacehaven, East Sussex, BN10 7DE

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  27 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 36 hours a week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,829pa - Pro rata salary £22,357pa
• Pay scale: Grade 7 SCP 18

What skills and experience we're looking for

Higher Level Teaching Assistant (SENCO)Job description

Passion – Urgency – Positivity – Aspiration – Commitment

STEP Academy Trust is an exciting, dynamic place to work that can offer great opportunities to the right candidate. If you are ready to take the next step in your career, join us as we ‘Strive Together for Excellence in Partnership’.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic Higher Learning TeachingAssistant to join our team at Telscombe Cliffs Academy. Strong literacy/numeracy skills are essential, as well as the ability to relate well to children and adults. This post is for supporting individual and small groups of children with interventions that have a positive impact on their learning. You will also be required to provide support with children with high needs. This post is part of a permanent contract offering at Telscombe Cliffs Academy.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Have experience of working within a school setting and be highly proactive and committed to going that extra mile to ensure pupils achieve the best they possibly can;
• Have experience of planning and undertaking interventions that have a positive impact on pupils and their learning outcomes;
• Be able to communicate with all staff and pupils;
• Display a commitment to the Trust’s equalities policies;
• An understanding of, and prior experience of supporting children with special needs is desirable.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• a dedicated leadership team, who are committed to supporting and developing colleagues;
• excellent professional development and promotion opportunities;
• membership to Perkbox discount scheme;
• subsidised private health care with Benenden;
• a free school lunch when working in school.

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

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About Telscombe Cliffs Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 596 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Telscombe Cliffs Academy website
• Email address: madelene.tabona@stepacademytrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/telscombe-cliffs-academy

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