Level 3 Teaching Assistant (SEMH)

St Mark's Church of England Primary School, Stockton-on-Tees, TS19 7HA

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  12 September 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  28 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,338.00 - £23,458.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade H, Spinal Point 14 to 17, Term Time Only plus 5 Days - Fixed Term until 31st August 2026

Level 3 Teaching Assistant (SEMH) job summary

One Excellence Multi Academy Trust is a Multi Academy Trust made up of four schools. The Trust was founded in July 2017 and is a mixed Multi Academy Trust. The vision and rationale behind the wider partnership are based on shared values and aspirations, a strong sense of community identity and values of inclusion and aspiration for all.

One Excellence Multi Academy Trust believes in supporting and investing in its staff and has a structured health and well-being programme. The programme includes physiotherapy, nurse support service and drop-in clinic, counselling, mindfulness sessions, weight management, stress awareness, GP consultations and private medical operations if required. We are also keen for staff to be able to reach their full potential and offer a range of professional development opportunities in all areas of education, nurturing and leadership.

Are you driven to make a difference to the education and lives of pupils with Social Emotional and Mental Health difficulties? Do you have a passion for supporting pupils with these needs so that they can flourish and achieve alongside their peers? St Mark’s Church of England Primary School has an exciting opportunity for a Level 3 Teaching Assistant who has the experience, skills and motivation to make a difference to the education of children and young people.

You must have the relevant, up to date qualifications and/or recent training which equips you to support a range of SEMH needs.

The role will involve:

• Providing support to pupils in the SEMH Provision in the first instance.
• Providing support to pupils across the school, adhering to safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Supervising groups and occasionally whole classes for a session.
• Providing a high standard of nurturing and education, through quality interactions and by developing strong, authentic relationships, for all children within our school. As well as on a one-to-one basis if required.
• Being proactive, flexible and a reliable team player, offering support to colleagues when required.
• Building and maintain strong relationships with all to enable that all at St Mark’s flourish and our communities needs are at the forefront of all we do.
• Helping the children to make progress working closely with a supportive and experienced team, as well as other external professionals. You will regularly feedback to both the class teacher, Senior Leadership Team and your colleagues regarding children’s progress and general wellbeing.

Disclosure: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We want to develop a more diverse workforce, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. Applicants with disabilities will be invited for an interview if the essential job criteria are met. Where our roles are customer facing and you are required to speak to members of the public, the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post. As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.

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.

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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.

About St Mark's Church of England Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 430 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Mark's Church of England Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-mark-s-church-of-england-primary-school-stockton-on-tees

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