SEN Teaching Assistant

Aurora Hanley School, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8PQ

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  26 September 2025

• Closing date

  31 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,102.72 to £24,103.93

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

SEN Teaching Assistant

📍 Location: Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent

💰 Salary: £12.37 – £13.49 per hour (£22,102.72 – £24,103.93 actual salary)

🕒 Hours: 40 hours per week – Term Time Only

Join an Outstanding Team at Aurora Hanley School

Aurora Hanley School is proud to be rated Outstanding by Ofsted. We provide innovative education and care for young people aged 6–19 with complex needs, including Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and associated conditions. We’re looking for a passionate and experienced SEN Teaching Assistant to join our dedicated team and make a real difference in the lives of our pupils. Your Role As a Teaching Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our pupils’ learning, wellbeing, and personal development. You’ll help create a safe, nurturing environment where every child can thrive.

Aurora Hanley School is proud to be rated Outstanding by Ofsted. We provide innovative education and care for young people aged 6–19 with complex needs, including Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and associated conditions.

We’re looking for a passionate and experienced SEN Teaching Assistant to join our dedicated team and make a real difference in the lives of our pupils.

Your Role

As a Teaching Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our pupils’ learning, wellbeing, and personal development. You’ll help create a safe, nurturing environment where every child can thrive.

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking someone who is:

• Experienced in working with children with SEN (paid or voluntary)
• Flexible, creative, and child-centred
• Committed to safeguarding and promoting pupil welfare
• Able to build warm, supportive relationships with pupils

Essential qualifications and skills:

• GCSEs in Maths and English (Grade C/Level 2 or above)
• Understanding of safeguarding and child protection
• Knowledge of SEN, SEMH, or ASD

Desirable:

• Level 2+ qualification in Supporting Teaching and Learning
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

What’s on offer?

Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance.

UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and well-being is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete a full online application form. 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search. 

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 Aurora Hanley School

• School type: Special school, ages 6 to 19
• School size: 89 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 6 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Aurora Hanley School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/aurora-hanley-school

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