SEMH Key Workers (2x Sleep in)

Bure Park Specialist Academy, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 4AE

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  11 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: Scale F12 – 17 - £29,542 - £32,046 paid pro-rata - Actual Salary £24,037 - £26,074 per annum plus 2 x Sleep In per week
• Additional allowances:

  Scale F12 – 17 - £29,542 - £32,046 paid pro-rata - Actual Salary £24,037 - £26,074 per annum plus 2 x Sleep In per week

SEMH Key Workers (2x Sleep in) job summary

Broad Horizons Education Trust

Bure Park Specialist Academy

Great Yarmouth

Norfolk

NR30 4AB

Email: recruitment@bhetrust.co.uk

SEMH Keyworker

• Scale F12 - 17 - £29,542 - £32,046 paid pro-rata

• Actual Salary £24,037 - £26,074 per annum plus 2 x Sleep In per week (Tuesday and Thursday)

• £2,774 per annum sleep in allowance

• Term time plus 1 week

• Start: September 2026

Come and join our essential ‘Team around the Child’ and be part of the successful ‘Broad Horizons Education Trust’. We have vacancies for a SEMH Keyworker at Bure Park Specialist Academy in Great Yarmouth.

Bure Park Specialist Academy is a residential special school for boys in the age range 7 - 16 with social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Our students arrive with disrupted educational experiences and complex difficulties and our team will be responsible for ensuring that they leave with superb outcomes academically, socially and behaviourally. The Academy is part of Broad Horizons Education Trust and we share their vision that improving the life chances of all pupils is at the heart of all we do.

We are looking to recruit a SEMH Keyworker who will be responsible for the care and leisure time of groups of students under the supervision and the direction of the Senior SEMH Key Worker team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the care and control provided to students and training and counselling of students in personal and social competence. The successful candidate will be an advocate for a small group of children supporting both their home and their development in school. You will be required to participate in the sleep in rota where you will stay overnight in the school. This is an exciting opportunity for someone wishing to be part of a highly motivated exceptional team who strive to achieve the highest standards and who are instrumental in ensuring that we change children's lives.

The Academy runs a very strong staff support and development programme. The successful candidates will be reliable, persistent and loyal, with a good sense of humour and strength of character. The academy is looking for people who have a variety of interests outside the curriculum that would lend themselves to leading activities with children.

The successful applicants must be prepared to undergo any further training as requested by the Trust and will be subject to an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service. This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations, therefore you will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether disqualified under these regulations.

For more information regarding this vacancy please contact the Recruitment Team by email at recruitment@bhetrust.co.uk or by contacting Bure Park Academy on 01493 807390.

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You must “Submit” your fully completed application by the closing date

Closing date: 2nd October 2026 at 9am

Interview date: Thursday 15th October

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early and/or commence interviews once sufficient applications are received and therefore early applications are encouraged

This Academy 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 likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations, therefore successful candidates will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether disqualified under these regulations. Applicants must be prepared to undertake an Enhanced DBS check and attend a Warner Interview. Right to Work in the UK will need to be established. We are an equal opportunities employer.

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

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Bure Park Specialist Academy

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 5 to 16
• Size: 87 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Bure Park Specialist Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bure-park-specialist-academy

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