Teaching Assistant – The HIVE (ASD Base)

Ravenstone Primary School, London, SW12 9SS

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  8 May 2026 at 4pm

• Date listed

  24 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,540.00 Annually (Actual) This is pro rata to the full-time rate of £30,225 pa

Teaching Assistant – The HIVE (ASD Base) job summary

We are seeking a dedicated, patient and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join The Hive — our specialist autism provision at Ravenstone Primary School. This is a unique opportunity to support children with autism to thrive in a structured, nurturing and highly inclusive environment, while also accessing learning within the mainstream school.

Working closely with the Head of the Hive, class teachers and a skilled team of professionals, you will support pupils both within the ASD Base and during their integration into mainstream classrooms. You will play a key role in helping children access learning, develop communication and social skills, and build independence through tailored, individualised support.

The role involves delivering and adapting learning activities for individuals and small groups, using specialist approaches such as TEACCH, SCERTS, Intensive Interaction, Makaton and PECS. You will help create a calm, engaging and purposeful learning environment, making use of our excellent facilities including sensory spaces, outdoor learning areas and therapy rooms.

You will contribute to monitoring pupil progress, providing feedback to teachers and supporting the planning of personalised learning. You will also play an important role in managing routines, supporting positive behaviour and ensuring pupils feel safe, understood and ready to learn.

At Ravenstone, we believe in developing our staff as much as our pupils. You will be part of a supportive and collaborative team, with access to ongoing training and professional development both within the school and across the Wandle Learning Trust.

This role would suit someone who is:

• Passionate about supporting children with autism
• Calm, consistent and able to build strong, trusting relationships
• Proactive, reflective and willing to learn new strategies
• Committed to inclusion and helping every child succeed

In return, you will join a warm and welcoming school community where staff are valued, supported and encouraged to grow. This is more than a role — it is a chance to make a lasting difference in the lives of children, where small steps lead to big progress every day.

Ravenstone is part of the Wandle Learning Trust, a growing Multi Academy Trust with schools in South London and East Sussex, currently comprising of two secondary schools and eight primary schools. The Trust also runs the Wandle Learning Partnership, which oversees our English, Maths and Teaching DfE Hubs, as well as our sector leading phonics programme, Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and a Children’s Barred List check.

The Wandle Learning Trust values the diversity of our students and is proud to inspire them through representative teaching and support staff. We aim to select all staff on merit, irrespective of race, sex, disability, age, gender reassignment, sexuality or other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

The Academy welcomes applications from disabled candidates. If you have a disability, please indicate any adjustments we might make when applying in order to ensure that the shortlisting process is fair and meets your needs.

CVs are not accepted.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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.

About Ravenstone Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 332 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ravenstone Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ravenstone-primary-school

You will always receive the warmest of welcomes to Ravenstone Primary School, situated in the heart of the community in Balham.
We pride ourselves on providing a caring, happy and loving environment for young children to learn, thrive and flourish. We are committed to inclusion and take the view that everyone can succeed given the right support. We use a range of strategies to support behaviour management and we are proud to be a values based school. We always have high expectations of our children and our staff.
High quality teaching in Reading, Writing and Mathematics underpins all we do and while we proudly provide a broad and balanced curriculum, these core academic subjects are the essentials with which children need to be proficient in. We believe in giving the children the best possible start in life and equipping them with the necessary knowledge and skills in order to achieve and be successful in each step in their primary education.
As an innovative school, we continually strive to improve our practice and that begins with teachers and support staff as learners. We learn from each other and from other schools and reflect on our practice in order to provide the best quality education for the children in our care.

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