Teaching Assistant

Beckmead Park Academy, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BZ

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 November 2024 at 7:58pm

• Date listed

  27 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,030 FTE - £27,855 FTE

Teaching Assistant job summary

The Beckmead Trust is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people, with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs across various sites. We are seeking to recruit a number of experienced Special Needs Teaching Assistants to join The Beckmead Trust at our Schools in Croydon. 

  

Beckmead School (SEMH, challenging behaviour)  Monks Orchard Road. BR3 3BZ 

(Alternative Provision – Primary) Monks Orchard Road. BR3 3BZ  

Tharreo House (SEMH, challenging behaviour) Salcott Crescent CR0 0JJ

Bramley Bank School (Alternative Provision – Primary) Sanderstead Road. CR2 0LY 

The successful candidate will already be an excellent teaching assistant with a commitment to fulfilling the needs of pupils experiencing social communication difficulties including ASD, SEMH and other learning needs. The ability to motivate pupils towards high achievement is essential. Excellent teamwork, classroom and communication skills are vital. Applications  are welcomed from new and existing teaching assistants who have an energy and passion  for working with children with complex needs. 

As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work. 



If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Croydon, we would welcome an application from you. 

Commitment to safeguarding

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff, volunteers and contractors, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance (including the ability to participate in Physical Intervention), satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents/issues which are publicly available online.

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About Beckmead Park Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 108 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Beckmead Park Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/beckmead-park-academy (opens in new tab)

SEN SCHOOL: Beckmead Family of Schools was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in January 2017 and became the Beckmead (Academy) Trust in April 2019. The Family of Schools is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people, with Educational Health Care Plans, based over a number of sites.

The Monks Orchard Road site is for 60 KS2-3 boys with social, emotional and mental health needs (Beckmead) and 40 KS3-4 boys who have ASD and associated challenging behaviour (Chaffinch Brook Upper).

The Morland Road site, Chaffinch Brook Lower, is for 39 primary age pupils who have a diagnosis of autism and present with challenging behaviour.

Bramley Bank, Rainbow class at Aerodrome Primary and The Beck at Forest Academy provide education for 36 children referred from mainstream schools who have not been able to meet their needs.

Tharreo House is a small, therapeutic provision for vulnerable secondary age pupils with complex needs.

Beckmead College and The Community Learning Team, offer a variety of individualised vocational and learning pathways for up to 100 KS4 and KS5 students.

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