Level 3 Teaching Assistant – SEMH Focus
Hampton Gardens Secondary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 8HR50 days remaining to apply
Start date details
From September 2025
Closing date
8 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant, Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,842.00 - £23,367.00 Annually (Actual) Actual salary for 32.5 hours per week, term time + 5 days. Support staff pay award pending.
Level 3 Teaching Assistant – SEMH Focus job summary
Are you passionate about helping young people overcome emotional and social barriers to learning? Hampton Gardens School is seeking a skilled and compassionate Level 3 Teaching Assistant to join our highly respected Achievement Support Department at Hampton Gardens School from September 2025, with a focus on Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) support.
Our Achievement Support Department is a purpose-built, inclusive hub featuring:
- A central collaboration area
- Sensory and intervention rooms
- A dedicated SEN office
You’ll be part of a dynamic team including a teaching SENDCo, Deputy SENDCo, Assistant SENCo, Teaching Assistants (Levels 1–3), a Pupil Premium Mentor, and a SEN Admin Assistant. We are committed to student voice, emotional resilience, and inclusive education.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you will:
- Lead and deliver targeted SEMH interventions, including the Boxall Profile.
- Provide one-to-one and small group support to students with complex needs.
- Coordinate and implement exam access arrangements in line with JCQ regulations.
- Mentor and guide Level 1 and 2 Teaching Assistants.
- Collaborate with the SEN Leadership Team, teachers, and external agencies.
- Contribute to Individual Provision Maps, Pupil Passports, and the Graduated Approach.
- Support therapeutic interventions, including animal therapy and ELSA-based strategies.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has experience as a Level 2 Teaching Assistant or equivalent.
- Is confident delivering interventions across the curriculum.
- Has strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Is trained (or working towards training) as an Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA).
- Brings a calm, empathetic, and flexible approach to supporting students with SEMH needs.
Desirable:
- Experience coordinating exam access arrangements.
- Familiarity with the Graduated Approach and Early Help processes.
- Background in therapeutic approaches such as animal therapy.
Working Hours:
Monday to Friday, 8:15am – 3:30pm (32.5 hours/week)
Term time only + 5 additional days
Salary:
(Grade 7):
Full-time (52 weeks): From £27,711 – £31,067
Actual salary (32.5 hrs/week, term time + 5 days): From £20,842 – £23,367
How to Apply
If having read the advertisement, job description and person specification, you are motivated to apply for this position please submit your application through MyNewTerm.
- Please complete all sections of the application form.
- Please note that CV's will not be accepted.
- Your personal statement should outline your previous experience and how this makes you a suitable candidate for the position for which you are applying.
If you have any questions, please contact the HR Team in the first instance via jobs@hamptonacademiestrust.org.uk
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified deadline if a suitable candidate is found.
Hampton Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Hampton Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service.
In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education, the school will consider carrying out an online search as part of the due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
Full details are contained with our Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy and Recruitment and Selection Policy, which are available via our website, or on request.
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 Hampton Gardens Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1264 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hampton Gardens Secondary School website
Hampton Gardens is an 11-19 free school which opened in September 2017 to an initial intake of 180 Year 7 students. When full, the school will accommodate 1200 students in years 7-11 and 300 students in Sixth Form.
Hampton Gardens is part of the Hampton Academies Trust who also run the highly successful and popular Hampton College all-through school, Hampton Lakes Primary School and Dogsthorpe Infant School. HAT schools have very close links and some shared staff.
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