13 days remaining to apply

  • Closing date

    24 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    3 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subjects

Special Education Needs (SEN), Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant, Early Years Practitioner, Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Working pattern

Part time, full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£27,236.74 - £29,299.97 Annually (Actual)

Specialist Teaching Assistant job summary

Fern House School

Specialist Teaching Assistant in Special School

(social, emotional, mental health needs / social communication needs)

Apply by: 12 noon - 24th February 2025

Interviews: W/b 24th February 2025

Salary Scale: Scale 5 (Salary Range £27,236.74 - £29,299.97) PRO RATA

(based on 36 hours and 39 weeks)

Hours: Flexible up to 36 hours per week / 39 weeks per year

Contract Term: Permanent

Job Start: As soon as possible

Fern House School is a special school for pupils aged 5 – 16. We promote and adopt approaches based on attachment theories and neurobiological research to provide our pupils with a supportive framework, which allows them to be heard and understood safely. Our highly adapted curriculum ensures that all pupils can engage in learning and achieve something to feel proud of. We are looking for an enthusiastic, skilled and motivated Specialist Teaching Assistant who is passionate in helping children succeed and is open to learning a modern approach to understanding neurodiverse pupils. Though our Specialist Teaching Assistants are currently assigned to a phase, it is important that they are able to work flexibly from across the whole school from Early Years to Key Stage 4.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and well-being and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging.

What more can we offer?

  • An enhanced salary to reflect the needs of our pupils

  • A welcoming and inclusive school community with strong team values

  • Flexible working hours to accommodate childcare

  • Attendance incentives – paid days off for 100% attendance

  • A brand new state-of-the-art school building

  • Recently judged to be a GOOD school by Ofsted & Personal Development judged as Outstanding.

At Fern House School we understand the importance of building meaningful relationships with pupils and families to nurture growth and development of relational milestones such as, building trust and sharing enjoyment. Care and making connections are at the heart of our ethos and we work hard to ensure that all staff feel cared for too.

As part of the Connect Education Trust, we are strongly committed to providing high quality professional development and career progression for all staff. We are constantly reviewing our practices to ensure that our staff can focus on what matters, providing a rich environment in which children can learn and thrive. We are able to offer significant opportunities to work in collaboration with colleagues across the Trust. Staff are able to be involved with developments within the curriculum in areas that interest them. We encourage expertise and a staff team that supports one another to develop their own practice by creating remarkable futures for all pupils.

All Connect Education Trust is committed to safeguarding, therefore all employees working within the Trust must have the ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of our children and young people. All candidates are required to complete the school’s ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ declaration and will be asked to apply for an Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). For posts in regulated activity, this will include a barred list check. The Trust also requires consent from applicants to carry out online searches of publicly available information, including social media, prior to interview.

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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 are not accepted.

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About Fern House School

School type
Academy, ages 5 to 16
School size
65 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 16

School location

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