SEN Teaching Assistant
Melrose School, Mitcham/ Raynes Park, Surrey, CR4 3BE9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 October 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
14 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 hours a week for 39 weeks.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 Months
Full-time equivalent salary
- FTE £29,436, actual (pro rata) £25,598
What skills and experience we're looking for
Candidates should have:
-An excellent teaching record
- Experience of the use of restorative practices and effective behaviour management skills as well as good rapport with challenging pupils
- Ability to monitor and review through self-evaluation, report writing and a clear system of record keeping
-Ability to teach flexibly, innovatively and responsively in a challenging environment
- Evidence of ability to successfully manage and support pupils with SEMH
- The ability to plan and deliver outstanding teaching and learning for both individuals and small groups with high quality outcomes for all pupils
- Dedication to creating a positive and inclusive learning environment
- Have a passion for working with young people and their families
- Have a genuine desire to improve the lives of some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people in London
- Want to work with like-minded colleagues who put children at the centre of everything they do
- Consider yourself to be patient, compassionate, determined, kind, rigorous and hard-working
- Believe that education is about facilitating academic progress, personal development and life skills in a nurturing, structured environment
- Actively seek out ways to improve your practice
- Want to learn from children, as well as enable them to learn from you
What the school offers its staff
-A wonderfully supportive family of teaching, support, therapy and admin staff - No more than 10 students in a class
- An abundance of TA and HLTA support - Young people who want to be in school and enjoy their time with us
- Supportive parents and carers
- A huge building, redesigned and fully renovated to our specific requirements
- Bespoke SEN facilities and resources
- On-site parking and secure cycle storage
- On-site gym (after school hours)
- A comprehensive induction programme for all new staff
- An extensive staff wellbeing programme
- A train station 5 minutes’ walk away (Wimbledon Chase)
- Weekly CPD
- Career progression within Whatley as we continue to grow, and across Melbury College
Further information about the job
Whatley Campus is a specialist SEN school in a leafy corner of Raynes Park, London. We opened in September 2022 and we were judged as GOOD by Ofsted less than two years later.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate Teaching Assistant who is ambitious in creating a learning culture in which our pupils will feel valued and safe.
This post offers an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed teaching assistant to work within a dedicated and successful team and positively impact on the lives of some of the most vulnerable young people in Merton through our trauma-informed approach.
If you are interested in learning more, we welcome tours and telephone calls from prospective candidates. Please contact Osita Afam at oafam@melbury.merton.sch.uk for more information.
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Melrose School
- School type
- Special school, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- 128 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Melrose School website
- Email address
- oafam@melbury.merton.sch.uk
Whatley Campus is a small, specialist school for students with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. All students have an EHCP to support their learning and development, and ASD is their primary need
Whatley Campus is a supportive, nurturing environment with small class sizes and a range of enrichment and extra-curricular activities. We cater for students in years 5 to 11 and offer GCSE and equivalent qualifications delivered by highly specialist teachers and support staff. We opened in September 2022 in a newly renovated, state of the art building, which has been especially designed to cater to the needs of students with ASD. Every student has a staff mentor from the outset and access to 1-to-1 mentoring sessions.
Students have a bespoke timetable created to meet their individual learning needs and there is a wide range of therapeutic provision. We support students in every aspect of school life and provide them with opportunities to learn about themselves and the wider world, as well as the requirements of the curriculum. It is our aim that every young person will have the tools they need to become a successful learner and a confident individual ready for the world beyond education.
Address:
Whatley Avenue
Raynes Park
SW20 9NS
Arranging a visit to Melrose School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email oafam@melbury.merton.sch.uk.
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