Teaching Assistant
Aurora Beeches School, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 5RT7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
30 May 2025
Closing date
24 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,102.72 - £24,103.93
Teaching Assistant job summary
Overview and Responsibilities
Teaching Assistant – Aurora Beeches School
Location: Cranborne, Dorset
Hourly Rate: £12.37 - £13.49 per hour
Annual Salary: £22,102.72 - £24,103.93 actual salary (FTE £25,729.60 - £28,059.20)
Contract: permanent, 40 hours per week, term time only
At Aurora Beeches in Cranbourne, we believe in giving young people, ages 11-16, the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, we support all our young people with a range of needs including Autism and other associated conditions. We can take advantage of our beautiful setting to inspire and create fun experiences to enhance learning and progress.
The role of a Teaching Assistant is essential to the support and development of our young people being successful and achieving in a safe and caring learning environment.
Positive role modelling and flexibility is key in this role, including 1:1 support in both an academic and vocational setting such as Bushcraft, animal care and life skills.
Key duties:
- Working alongside the teaching staff to support learning and provide further explanation to young people where needed.
- Taking responsibility for Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our young people at all times
- Supporting our young people to identify, meet and exceed their Education and Healthcare plan targets.
- Implementing and supporting positive behaviour throughout the school, adapting own behaviour and responses when required to meet individual needs.
- Ensuring all accidents, incidents, or health & safety documentation is accurately recorded as per the school’s policies.
- Assisting our young people in attending a wide range of group activities, ensuring that choices are respected, with appropriate social interactions and friendships encouraged.
Skills and Qualifications
Whilst previous experience isn’t essential; the ability and desire to build a professional & trusted relationship with our young people is.
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
- The ability to manage a range of approaches to behaviour, including managing behaviours that challenge.
- A desire to put young people first and treat them as individuals.
- Able to be positive and creative in meeting the needs of young people and enhancing their outcomes.
- Able to work collaboratively with good interpersonal skills.
- Good numeracy, literacy and ICT skills.
- Able to work within the parameters of the physical demands of the job role.
- Qualifications:
- GCSE English and Maths qualification - minimum grade 4 or equivalent is beneficial.
- Full UK driving licence and access to your own car (essential)
- Please note that the minimum age to work on site is 21
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
- Amazing opportunity to work in a stunning setting with grade 2 listed gardens
- Being part of a supportive and friendly team
- Full training and continued support
- Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
- Regular staff wellbeing events
- Free homemade lunches with a range of options
- Life assurance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box
- Free parking
If you are interested in this role, then please apply on-line and complete our application form.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Aurora Beeches School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 42 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Aurora Beeches School website
School location
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