Individual Needs Assistant
St Richard's Catholic College, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1SE16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
26 September 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
10 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Single Status
What skills and experience we're looking for
- A good standard of education particularly in English and Mathematics (grade C/4 or above).
- Experience of supporting children in a classroom environment, including those with special educational needs.
- Experience of using technology to support pupils in the classroom.
- Knowledge of the legal and organisational requirements for maintaining the health, safety and security of yourself and others in the learning environment.
- Ability to use language and other communication skills that pupils can understand and relate to.
- Ability to establish positive relationships with pupils and empathise with their needs.
- Ability to demonstrate active listening skills.
- Ability to consistently and effectively implement agreed behaviour management strategies.
- Ability to provide levels of individual attention, reassurance and help with learning tasks as appropriate to pupils’ needs, encouraging the pupil to stay on task.
- Ability to offer constructive feedback to pupils to reinforce self-esteem.
- Ability to work effectively and supportively as a member of the school team.
- Ability to work within and apply all school policies eg behaviour management, safeguarding, Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities etc.
What the school offers its staff
- We are a happy, thriving school community where respect for one another is key.
- Ours is a caring school. Visitors always comment on the calm, friendly and warm atmosphere of our school
- Facilities are excellent as well as vibrant.
- Behaviour for learning is outstanding as are many of our lessons. Hence, you will have the opportunity to teach, inspire and take risks with our fully engaged and committed learners.
- In spite of being a coastal school, we achieve strong outcomes for all groups of pupils.
- The staff are fantastic as are the pupils, parents and Governors.
- Our Professional Development Programme is excellent.
- Your induction to the school will be first class, ensuring that you feel valued and a key contributor very early on.
- Enrichment is a huge strength of the school.
- You will have the opportunity to support trips to Berlin, Austria, Rome, Barcelona, Aachen, Iceland, Normandy as well as a range of day trips.
- You will be supported to develop your career here at St Richard’s.
- We have a strong programme of staff wellbeing/social events such as yoga sessions, sports activities, country walks, sketchbook circle, Christmas cake baking and decorating, Christmas decorations making and staff choir.
- We offer sports activities, weekend walks for the family and other staff events. We have so many activities as people genuinely care about each other and organise activities for the benefit of their colleagues.
- Bexhill is a lovely place in which to live and work with Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton on the doorstep.
- We are ‘human’. We do not expect perfection. We fully acknowledge that maintaining a first class school is about all pulling together, learning from each other and supporting one another with challenges. Everyone has their strengths and areas for development. We work as a team to ensure strong outcomes for all our pupils.
- We do not expect you to be Catholic. We have staff of different denominations and staff of no religion. As long as you feel happy and, above all, committed to support our Catholic ethos, we would warmly welcome your application.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
St Richard's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Richard's Catholic College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1033 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Richard's Catholic College website
- Email address
- recruitment@strichardscc.com
- Phone number
- 01424 731070
St Richard’s is a co-educational Catholic school offering an inclusive Christian education to pupils of all abilities from the ages of 11 to 16 years. It is our aim to encourage, support and develop every pupil in our care academically, socially and spiritually.
We have high academic standards at St Richard's, as our GCSE results consistently testify. We expect our pupils to work hard, behave well, dress smartly and pursue excellence in all that they do inside and outside of the classroom. We also aim to provide a happy, caring and safe environment in which pupils can learn and develop into rounded, responsible and confident members of the community.
Our efforts have not gone unnoticed. We are a Specialist Science School with High performing Specialist School status. We have a Prince’s Teaching Institute Art Mark, Leading Edge status, Fairtrade Fair Achiever Award status, an Artsmark Gold Award, a Space Education Quality Mark, Green Flag Eco-Schools Award and Investors in Careers at the highest level. Our interim Diocesan Inspection of March 2024 found that 'students articulated how much they valued the academic support and pastoral support that they have received during their time at St Richard's. We have also been awarded numerous times by the SSAT, currently holding Exceptional Education Awards, Engaging with Key Stakeholders, Climate for Learning, Leadership through Moral Purpose, Professional Development, Variety of Teaching Approaches, Exceptional Pupil Performance and, perhaps most pleasing, Exceptional Pupil Progress.
An OFSTED inspection in October 2021 graded the school outstanding in ‘Behaviour and Attitudes’, ‘Personal Development’ and ‘Leadership and Management’. Our results of 2024 place us, again, as the highest achieving school within the County and progress rates continue to be extremely strong, meaning the pupils at St Richard’s leave school with all the attributes they need to be successful and caring members of their communities.
All children are unique and precious individuals with different talents and aspirations, and our efforts are directed into ensuring that they feel both valued and challenged.
Arranging a visit to St Richard's Catholic College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@strichardscc.com.
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