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SEN Teaching Assistant
Sidestrand Hall School, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 0NHThis job expired on 22 September 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 34 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale D
Hourly rate
- £13.26 - £13.47
What skills and experience we're looking for
Responsibilities:
- Provide support to learners with a range of complex special educational needs.
- Support students with speech and communication difficulties, autistic spectrum conditions, social and emotional mental health needs, and learning difficulties.
- Collaborate with teachers and other staff members to create a positive learning environment.
- Assist in the delivery of tailored educational activities and interventions.
- Help maintain a safe and inclusive classroom environment.
- Contribute to the assessment and tracking of student progress.
Candidate Profile:
- Enthusiastic and motivated individual with a genuine interest in working with learners with special educational needs.
- Flexible approach to work, able to adapt to the varying needs of students.
- Experience and understanding of special educational needs, autistic spectrum disorder, and safeguarding.
- Highly motivated with a commitment to supporting student development.
- Excellent teamwork skills, able to collaborate effectively with colleagues.
- Committed to their own professional development, with a willingness to learn and grow in their role as a Teaching Assistant.
What the school offers its staff
Sidestrand Hall School is a Complex Needs school providing education to pupils aged 7-19 years. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Teaching Assistant, with a genuine passion for supporting students with a variety of complex special educational needs.
Pupil Profile: Varied, including speech and communication difficulties, autistic spectrum condition, social and emotional mental health needs, and learning difficulties.
As an employer, we offer the following benefits
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Access to an employee assistance programme who provide counselling and advice
- Access to musculoskeletal injury rehabilitation service
- Ongoing CPD
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Sidestrand Hall School
- School type
- Special school, ages 7 to 19
- School size
- 193 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sidestrand Hall School website
- Email address
- hr@sidestrandhall.norfolk.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01263578144
We are all immensely proud of our School. Sidestrand Hall School caters for pupils aged 7 – 19 years with wide ranging complex needs. The School stands in 15 acres of land on the North Norfolk Coast. We have a range of specialist facilities on site including gardens, greenhouse, woods with a bike trail, a go-kart track, mechanics and construction workshops, science lab, food technology room, sensory room, purpose built Sixth Form and residential units.
Our mission statement demonstrates our purpose as moving Achievement beyond Expectation.
Sidestrand Hall has a highly qualified, skilled and committed staff who guide and support pupils through a range of learning experiences which provide them with the skills, knowledge and qualifications they need. All pupils follow the National Curriculum differentiated to their needs and the extended curriculum offers opportunities for outdoor learning, developing independence and being an active member of the community.
Every pupil leaves Sidestrand Hall with Nationally recognised qualifications that prepare them for their next steps and work towards the outcomes of the SEN code of Practice, Preparing for Adulthood – Employment/Education, Independent Living, Community Participation and Good Health.
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