Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Teaching Assistant

The Winstanley School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3BD

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  29 August 2025

• Closing date

  8 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  29 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 6 (£20,445 - £20,770)

Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Teaching Assistant job summary

The LiFE Multi Academy Trust: Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Teaching Assistant

Paid at Grade 6 (points 9 – 10)

£20,445 to £20,770 (actual salary) 34 hours per week, plus 5 days for training

Required ASAP for one academic year in the first instance

Applications are sought for a committed Teaching Assistant with experience of working with students who display Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. We require the successful applicant to support and contribute to the students’ effective learning experience. The role will involve curriculum planning, safeguarding, EHCP reviews, and building family relationships. We also require the ability to support physical education activities. This is a truly unique opportunity, to help play a major role in the development of our SEMH learning centre, as a standalone school.

The SHINE Centre is a through provision educating up to 30 students from KS1 through to KS4 across three separate buildings on the Winstanley secondary and Kingsway primary site. These are bespoke Learning Centres, self-contained, with their own dedicated staff. The centre runs as a ‘school within a school’. The SHINE Centre name reflects the values that are already embedded within The Winstanley School – Supporting others, Hard work, Independence, Never giving up, and Excellence.

We have high expectations of all staff within the LiFE Multi Academy Trust, which makes it an exciting and innovative place to work. We understand that this role will require support and encouragement to design what we hope becomes the ‘Blue Print’ for how in-school SEMH resource should be run.

Student and staff success is vitally important to us and we will endeavour to provide the environment and leadership conditions to let you do what you do best.

We would welcome applications from those with a broad depth of experiences i.e. what do you bring to the party!

The closing date for completed applications is 9am on Monday 8th September 2025.

Application forms and further details can be downloaded from Eteach.

LiFE Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check and an online search.

At LiFE Multi Academy Trust we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. As a Trust we actively encourage applications from those in minority groups and

with diverse backgrounds.

LiFE Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check and 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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

‘’LiFE Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check and an online search.’’

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 The Winstanley School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 639 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Winstanley School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-winstanley-school

The Winstanley School is an 11-16 Leicestershire school situated in the heart of the Braunstone Town community. The school is part of the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust of which Bosworth Academy is the lead institution.

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