Project SEARCH Teaching Assistant
The Partnership Trust, Radstock, BA3 3AL22 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
2 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,710.13 - £23,072.25 Annually (Actual)
Project SEARCH Teaching Assistant job summary
Finding Futures - Project SEARCH Teaching Assistant
Up to 37 hours per week, 8am-4pm Mon-Fri
(applications for part-time hours considered)
Term-time only, plus 5 inset days
Fixed term contract until 31/08/26, with potential to extend
Grade 4 (SCP 7-8)
£22710.13 - £23,072.25 (Actual Salary)
Finding Futures is a specialist college that is committed to transforming the lives of young adults with SEND by equipping them with the experience, skills and support they need to enter paid employment and achieve more independent futures.
We have an exciting and unique new opportunity for a Teaching Assistant to join our growing Project SEARCH supported internship team.
Based in the Royal United Hospital (Bath) and the University of Bath, Project SEARCH provides quality work experience placements, coaching, support and guidance to interns aged 16 - 25 with autism and learning difficulties. Young people are supported to develop their independence, confidence, resilience and technical employability skills through varied, individualised work opportunities in a professional environment.
This is not your usual Teaching Assistant position; it is a bespoke role that combines academic/classroom support with administrative responsibilities and the opportunity to develop 'Job Coaching' skills and experience. As a result, this vacancy would suit someone who enjoys variety in their work and who appreciates the opportunity to develop experience and skills in a specialist environment. The work will include:
- Supporting quality teaching and learning in the classroom, assisting learners with diverse support needs to access the curriculum
- Providing personalized 1:1 sessions with interns for pastoral, educational and employability-based support
- Supporting Project SEARCH operations by carrying out administrative functions
- In line with the needs of the organisation and cohort, delivering Job Coaching support to learners in the workplace
We are looking for someone with a positive attitude, good organisational skills and a passion to make a lasting difference in the lives of young people. If you have experience of working with young adults with SEND we would be particularly keen to hear from you.
The Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references, as well as proof of suitable qualifications and a full employment history. We are an equal opportunities employer.
For further information please contact our Head of Finding Futures, Ben Skinner: bskinner@finding-futures.co.uk
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
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View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Partnership Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Founded on the strong belief that with partnership and collaboration we can improve the outcomes for young people, The Partnership Trust is proud to be a diverse family of schools consisting of special schools, village schools, first schools and primary schools based in the city of Bath and beyond.
With origins lying in Fosse Way Special School, The Partnership Trust was formed in 2011 to enable close collaboration between schools across the area and was characterised by a diverse range of schools at different stages of their development journey. The Trust grew to include primary and first schools across the Bath and Frome area and the development of a new special school. In 2018, driven by a desire to build close collaboration between schools across the Bath and Mendip areas, The Partnership Trust joined with The Comenius Trust, a Trust formed in 2016 with a lead school of Weston All Saints Primary School, a large primary school in Bath.
The Partnership Trust is built upon the principles of equity, trust and respect, operating within a culture of shared challenge and support. As a Trust we do not seek to make all schools the same and celebrate each school’s unique characteristics, heritage and community. We are committed to providing an outstanding education for all of our pupils through an unrelenting focus on every child and their individual progress and attainment, pairing high quality teaching with the widest possible opportunities.
In order to enable each school to focus their time and resources on teaching, our role is to collaborate and support; provide strong and flexible shared services; put in place high quality school improvement and to have a robust, effective and transparent governance system. Each school retains oversight of their own day to day management but operates within the shared values and commonly agreed practices of the Trust.
With a firm belief that every employee no matter what their role, contributes towards the quality of the children’s learning experience, staff benefit from support from colleagues within the Trust as well as being encouraged, as part of an outward looking organisation, share experiences and good practice and maintain networks within and outside of the Trust.
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