Teaching Assistant (Behaviour)
Brookfield Community School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 3NS14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week - Permanent - Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual salary: £22,094.89 to £23,923.66 per annum (FTE: £26,141.85 to £28,305.58)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about helping young people thrive, even when the path gets bumpy? Do you have the resilience, empathy, and drive to support students with behavioural challenges in a nurturing and structured environment? If so, we invite you to be part of something new and transformative, our Student Support Centre.
We are launching a brand-new Student Support Centre. This will be a dedicated space designed to re-engage students, promote emotional wellbeing, and support positive behaviour. As a Behavioural Teaching Assistant, you’ll play a key role in this initiative, working closely with students who need extra guidance to succeed both academically and socially.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting students with behavioural, emotional, and social needs
- Delivering tailored interventions and mentoring sessions
- Assisting with reintegration into mainstream lessons
- Promoting restorative approaches and positive behaviour strategies
- Collaborating with teachers, pastoral staff, and external agencies
We are looking for someone who is:
- Experienced in working with young people in an educational or youth setting
- Skilled in behaviour management and de-escalation techniques
- Calm, compassionate, and solution-focused
- Able to build trust and rapport with students from diverse backgrounds
- Committed to safeguarding and inclusive education
A background in youth work, SEN support, or mental health is highly desirable.
The Brookfield Community School ispart of Redhill Academy Trust. The school is also a member of Redhill College of Leadership and Development and as such there are excellent CPD opportunities for further information please visit the website.
What the school offers its staff
Benefits
- Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with service, plus statutory holidays
- The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school
- Recognised continuous local government service for annual leave entitlement, Occupational Maternity/ Paternity pay
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee benefits platform
Further information about the job
For further details regarding this post please contact Wendy Fox, Operations Manager onw.fox@brookfieldcs.org.uk. To apply complete our on-line application form, please use the 'apply now' button.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the application process, please contact the HR Team.
As Redhill Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children practices, any appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS and Child barred list checks, candidate online search and successful references.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Brookfield Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1168 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Brookfield Community School website
- Email address
- w.fox@brookfieldcs.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01246568115
Brookfield Community School is part of Redhill Academy Trust. The school is also a member of Redhill College of Leadership and Development and as such there are excellent CPD opportunities for further information please visit the website.
Arranging a visit to Brookfield Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email w.fox@brookfieldcs.org.uk.
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