SEN Teaching Assistant - Secondary
Aurora Eccles School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR16 2NZ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 January 2026 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
9 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,906 - £23,621 per annum
SEN Teaching Assistant - Secondary job summary
Tel: 07918 585258
Email: liz.Hudson@theauroragroup.co.uk
- Salary: £22,906 - £23,621 per annum dependent on experience and qualifications (£12.82 - £13.22 per hour)
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Term time only
- Starting as soon as possible
Aurora Eccles School:
Due to our continued expansion, we’re currently looking for Level 2 Teaching Assistants to join our school. You will be working alongside the teacher and therapy teams to create an enabling environment and supporting students to actively engage with their social and academic environment.
Part of the Aurora Group, Aurora Eccles School in Quidenham, Norwich provides day placements for students aged 11 to 16 years primarily with communication and interaction difficulties or specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia. Some may be on the autistic spectrum or have anxieties and difficulties that create barriers to learning.
With small classes, a maximum of 10 students and a minimum of 3 staff per class you can focus on the needs of each student. There is a full clinical team onsite to support at all times and you will have the support of an experienced and stable SLT.
To take a virtual look around our school please click here: Eccles Virtual Tour
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career whilst you help shape and develop our provision to achieve this.
Working hours:
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8.30am - 4.30pm
- Thursday 8.30am – 5pm
- Friday 8.30am – 4pm
Key Duties:
- To establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School.
- To promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times.
- To contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning.
- Support the Class Teacher in all areas of the day to day running of the class
- To respond to the varying and changing needs of the school and adapt to any task presented to achieve the smooth running of the school.
- To promote pupils’ cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural, physical development and spiritual well-being.
- Demonstrate a proven ability to work collaboratively within a multi-professional team.
Please note that duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of Eccles when required. Please see the link below for our full job description:
Job Description - Teaching Assistant
Skills and Qualifications
- GCSE Maths and English Language qualification minimum Grade 4 or equivalent is essential.
- Level 2 - 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification (or working towards).
- Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.
- Knowledge and experience of pupils with SEMH, ASD.
- Due to the location of the school, candidates must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to their own vehicle.
What’s on offer?
Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
- Life assurance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Free lunches when working
- Free onsite parking
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme
- Family Swim
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more
How to Apply:
Please click Apply for job to be redirected to our trust’s site to complete the online form. For more information on this position please contact liz.hudson@theauroragroup.co.uk
Closing date: 9th January 2026
Interview date: TBC
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
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.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
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.
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 external website (opens in new tab)About Aurora Eccles School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 211 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Aurora Eccles School website
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