
SEMH Teaching Assistant
Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4RRDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 1am
Date listed
30 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,279 per annum
SEMH Teaching Assistant job summary
Tel: 01553 774666
Email: office@fairstead.norfolk.sch.uk
Web: www.fairsteadprimaryschool.co.uk
Headteacher: Daniel Farthing
- Salary - £20,279 per annum
- Permanent
- Part Time
- 34.25 hours per week
- Term time + 1 week
- Required for September 2025
‘Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.’ – Dr. Seuss
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children who need support the most? Do you believe that every child deserves to feel safe, valued, and understood? If so, we want YOU to be part of our inclusion team here at Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School.
We have created a Nurture Hub - a bespoke, caring, and dynamic provision designed for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. This is not your typical classroom. This is a place of healing, growth and belonging – and we’re looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to help us support a small number of children.
We want to recruit people who are passionate about making a positive impact on our children’s lives and want to challenge themselves to keep on improving.
What We’re Looking For:
- A nurturing and resilient individual who can build strong, trusting relationships.
- Someone who sees behaviour as communication, not disruption.
- A creative, hands-on approach to supporting learning, emotional development, and wellbeing.
- A calm and consistent presence with a good sense of humour and a lot of heart.
What You’ll Do:
- Work 1:1 and in small groups to support children in managing emotions, engaging with learning and developing confidence.
- Support the delivery of therapeutic and nurturing activities tailored to each child’s needs.
- Collaborate closely with our skilled team and help shape an inclusive, trauma-informed environment.
- Be a role model of patience, empathy and positivity every single day.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a passionate and skilled team that believes relationships are the key to change.
- Receive high-quality training and ongoing support in SEMH and trauma-informed practice.
- Enjoy a fulfilling role where no two days are the same – and every day matters.
- Help transform lives in a setting where children are truly seen, heard and understood
Cultural Fit
Our school is developing all the time. We have implemented a curriculum whose drivers are possibilities, community and independence. We are a school at the heart of our community, and we feel it is important for our children to have a developed sense of their locality and be proud to be part of it.
- We believe we can all improve, children learn from staff as well as from each other
- We believe in the potential of all children to learn
- We engage in deep thought about challenge and quality
- We provide opportunities to practise skills that have been learnt until over time automaticity is achieved
- We have an openness to feedback
- We develop worked models that communicate quality and success
- We focus single-mindedly upon providing the best education we possibly can for our children. If you want to work hard on your practice, then this will be the school for you.
Working in a school where you are not aligned with the culture can be a miserable experience. So…we both need to have alignment if you come to work here!
We can offer:
- An induction package to support successful integration
- A forward-thinking school, which is committed to improvement through evidence-based research
- Friendly and supportive staff
- More opportunities to grow your career with our focused CPD programmes
- Norfolk Rewards – staff discount programme
- Part of the Viscount Nelson Education Network (VNET) incorporating a tailored package of bespoke in-school support as well as a wide range of CPD opportunities across Norfolk and beyond
- A focus on supporting good mental health
- High quality training and ongoing support in SEMH and trauma-informed practice.
Visits to the school are encouraged. If you would like to visit the school, you will be assured a warm welcome. Please contact Kerry Tucker, School Business Manager, who will be more than happy to arrange your visit.
How to apply
To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’. Alternatively, further information and our application form are available from our website.
Completed forms should either be returned by email to – admin@fairstead.norfolk.sch.uk
We are unable to accept CVs in place of application forms.
Closing date: 11 July 2025
Interview date: TBC
Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 433 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School website
School location
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