Teaching Assistant

Chelveston Road School, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, NN10 8HN

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  4 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 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: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,027.00 - £24,404.00 Annually (FTE) Government Pay Award Awaited

Teaching Assistant job summary

This is a very exciting time for Chelveston Road School. In September 2025 we will welcome our fifth cohort of students, meaning that we will have students in all age groups from Year 7 - 11 and Post 16.

We would love you to join us for the latest chapter in our journey.

We are a secondary school for students with special educational needs and disabilities and are part of Better Together Learning Trust and cater for students with a range of learning and cognition needs, as well as autism.

We are looking to appoint Teaching Assistants to support high quality teaching and learning across our school and the Trust. You will need to possess the necessary skills to assist our students to make even better progress and gain skills and accreditation for later life.

Do you think you have the right skills for our school and students? If so,

Applications are welcomed from anyone who can:

- Demonstrate their ability to work both as a member of a team and individually.

- Can demonstrate an awareness of the needs of our students.

- Has a good level of education with appropriate literacy and numeracy skills.

- Possess good communication skills both verbally and written.

- A positive attitude and drive are also very important to us.

We offer:

- A newly built, well-equipped, modern school.

- A committed staff team.

- Opportunities for innovative ways of working.

- An opportunity to build and further develop good practice.

- High quality professional development opportunities.

- Amazing and supportive colleagues

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from appropriately qualified persons regardless of gender, race, religion, disability or age. Better Together Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check, and any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from appropriately qualified persons regardless of gender, race, religion, disability or age. Better Together Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check and any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references.

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.

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.

About Chelveston Road School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• School size: 92 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Chelveston Road School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chelveston-road-school

We are a secondary school for pupils with an increasingly diverse range of special educational needs.

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