Specialist Teaching Assistant
Hebden Green Community School, Winsford, Cheshire, CW7 4EJ19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN)
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,711.00 - £30,060.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary £20,909- £22,682 Working hours 08:45-15:45 32.5 hours a week Term Time Only
Specialist Teaching Assistant job summary
Join Our Dedicated Team at Hebden Green School
Hebden Green School is an amazing special school providing education, therapy, and care for children and young people with complex physical, medical, and learning needs. We are committed to fostering a nurturing and inclusive environment where every pupil is supported to reach their full potential. Our core values - Love, Learning, and Individuality - are at the heart of everything we do.
We are seeking a Teaching Assistant with a background in either special education, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or healthcare to provide specialist support for a pupil with additional physical, communication, cognition and medical needs. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team and make a real difference in a child’s life.
Evelina is 6 years old and loves Spider Man as well as learning about nature, maths, science (including messy experiments!!), Frozen, pranks and being creative. Evelina communicates using an eye-gaze device and eye pointing – she loves to tell a good joke! Evelina also has cerebal palsy, epilepsy, a vision impairment and is tube fed. Evelina likes fun, calm and caring people who are dedicated to understanding her and how she needs them to support her.
About the Role
As a Teaching Assistant, you will play a key role in supporting a pupil’s physical and medical needs, communication, and access to learning. Working in collaboration and under the direction of the teacher and class staff, therapists, and health professionals, you will help implement physiotherapy programs, mobility support, and personal care routines needed to enable the pupil to access learning at an early National Curriculum level.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide 1:1 support to a pupil with physical, communication, cognition and medical needs.
Work as part of a team and communicate effectively with pupils’ family on a daily basis with professionalism, confidence and kindness.
Assist with physiotherapy and occupational therapy programs, including mobility exercises, sensory diet, hydrotherapy, and positioning in collaboration and being led by a multi professional team embedding therapeutic targets into everyday learning
Support the pupil’s engagement in learning activities, promoting independence and confidence, adapting teacher-led lesson plans creatively to engage the pupil within their abilities
Assist with personal care, specialist seating, and the use of mobility and communication aids and devices.
Model and facilitate independent use of the pupil’s eye-gaze communication device
Work under the direction of the teacher and wider multi professionals
Foster the pupil’s confidence and independence, supporting with social interaction with both peers and adults
Promote the school’s values of Love, Learning, and Individuality in all aspects of school life.
What We’re Looking For:
Experience or qualifications in special schools, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or healthcare.
A passion for working with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
An understanding of mobility, therapy techniques, and assistive technology.
A caring, patient, and enthusiastic approach.
High emotional intelligence - empathetic, patient and perceptive to pupil’s sensory, communication and learning cues
Creative, flexible problem-solver capable of translating lesson plans into personalised daily strategies that keep the pupil engaged
Someone who is willing to learn, be self-motivated, research and have compassion and empathy
Collaborative team-player with strong communication skills to liaise effectively with therapists, the multi-disciplinary team and Evelina’s family.
Why Join Hebden Green?
A specialist, multi-disciplinary environment with dedicated therapy teams
State-of-the-art facilities, including a hydrotherapy pool, sensory rooms, and life skills areas
Ongoing professional development and training in therapy techniques and SEND.
A welcoming, supportive, and values-driven school community who will value you and your wellbeing at all times.
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.
About Hebden Green Community School
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 135 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hebden Green Community School website
School location
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