SEMH Teaching Assistant

Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4RR

Deadline 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

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 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
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/fairstead-community-primary-and-nursery-school

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