Teaching Assistant

Rivers Education Support Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, EN11 0AA

17 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  29 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £21,152.00 Annually (Actual) Mon - Fri (32.5hrs) 8.30am to 3.30pm. Actual Salary £21,152

Teaching Assistant job summary

We are seeking a compassionate, adaptable, and proactive Teaching Assistant to join our dedicated team. Your role will be to support pupils across our KS3 Centre in Hertford & our KS4 in Hoddesdon (individually and in small group), helping them access learning, regulate behaviour, and develop strategies to manage social and emotional challenges.

This role may involve supporting our pupils at offsite AP provisions such as HRC or Harlow College. Travel expenses will be paid.

You will work closely with teachers, pastoral staff, and external agencies to ensure every pupil receives consistent, high-quality support. This role is ideal for dedicated professionals who have a passion for supporting young people who face difficulties in mainstream education.

Supporting our young people who have been through challenging times, is rewarding as we see them develop and succeed in reaching their full potential, gaining educational outcomes, and returning to mainstream wherever possible.

There is a high staff to pupil ratio - classes are small (max of 5 pupils). We offer a supportive management team with “an open door SLT”, Rights to Disconnect policy, & offer opportunities for staff to effect real change, and grow professionally.

Rivers ESC works with a varied cohort of pupils including children classed as missing education, permanently excluded from mainstream schools, and many of the pupils have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD).

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

The safe recruitment of staff is the first step to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in education.

Rivers ESC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects anyone applying to work in our school to share this commitment.  All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory enhanced criminal record with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check), health check, employment reference checks and online/social media checks. 

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 Rivers Education Support Centre

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 16
• Size: 15 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Rivers Education Support Centre website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/rivers-education-support-centre

Rivers Education Support Centre provides educational programmes to support pupils who are at serious risk of permanent exclusion, or who have been permanently excluded from their mainstream school.

The Centre’s vision is to inspire and enable pupils to:

•Become confident, independent and successful young people

•Excel in Learning

•Engage positively with the community

•Be ambitious for their futures.

Key Stage 3

At the Key Stage 3 centre in Hertford, pupils either attend for an agreed period of respite or for a longer period while next steps are arranged. Pupils are provided with a broad curriculum and barriers to education are identified. Pupils are supported to find strategies to overcome these barriers to support them to be successful in school. Once a mainstream school has been identified, pupils are supported to reintegrate by the Rivers ESC outreach team. Where appropriate, statutory assessments are conducted for pupils in Key Stage 3 to identify additional support that may be required and in some instances to support the process towards a placement in an alternative/specialist provision.

Key Stage 4

The Key Stage 4 centre in Hoddesdon provides education for year 10 and 11 pupils. Many pupils are supported to reintegrate back into mainstream school once it has been identified that they are likely to be successful. Rivers ESC works with the Fair Access team in Hertfordshire to choose the new school placement and to plan how to meet the additional needs of the pupil who is reintegrating.

KS4 pupils complete a wide range of exam based and vocational qualifications to work towards future aspirations and chosen career pathways. Some KS4 pupils may work on learning pathways which include attendance at alternative provisions supported by centre staff. Pupils have access to a broad range of subjects at a variety of levels and are guided to be highly aspirational with the courses they select. Pupil outcomes are outstanding.

The safe recruitment of staff is the first step to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in education.

Rivers ESC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and promoting the welfare of the pupils in its care and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We welcome visits from potential applicants.

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