Teaching Assistant - Level 1
Beckmead Park Academy, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BZ23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 6:19am
Date listed
14 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC Grade 3 SCP 5-7 (Outer London) £28,521 FTE - £29,346 FTE
Teaching Assistant - Level 1 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.
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.
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
- School website
- Beckmead Park Academy website
SEN SCHOOL: Beckmead Park Academy, is an all-through mixed SEN school situated over three sites in the London Borough of Croydon:
Bramley Bank - Key Stage 1 & 2
Beckmead School - Key Stage 2 & 3
Tharreo House - Key Stage 3 & 4
We have 136 pupils on roll with most having an Educational Health Care Plan.
All of our pupils have Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties with associated challenging behaviour; many have additional needs, including: Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties, ADHD and Severe Social Anxieties. We offer a nurturing approach to education and social development and employ a therapy team, working in a range of different disciplines, such as play, music, drama, art and Lego therapy. We also have strong working relationships with CAMHS, the Early Help and social care teams.
We deliver a broad and balanced curriculum that can be tailored to meet the individual needs of our pupils. We try to take into account their interests and aptitudes, whilst building core skills and supporting a strong knowledge base. Our pupils are taught within the nurture model with high staff pupil ratios that enable us to provide an individualised, bespoke approach to learning.
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