9 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    6 July 2025 at 1am

  • Date listed

    26 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time, part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£12.84 - £13.05 per hour

Teaching Assistants job summary

Tel:  01603 441126

Website: https://www.parkside.norfolk.sch.uk/news-and-dates/vacancies/


  • Salary – Scale D, £12.84 - £13.05 per hour
  • Permanent
  • Full and Part Time positions available
  • Up to 33 hours per week (5 days)
  • Term Time plus 1 week
  • Required for September 2025


We need enthusiastic, caring, resilient and fun people to come and work with our children and young people with SEN.

Parkside is an Outstanding Special School in the Golden Triangle part of Norwich.

We have pupils aged from 7years old to 18 years old and a two year post 16 provision to support young people with independence.

Parkside is a friendly school with a family feel to it.

Parkside likes to have fun and support our pupils to live life fully through supporting their learning in communication, self-regulation and independence.

We have a well-established career progression route for TAs and successful TA to Apprentice Teacher route for Teacher Training.

Hours of work, 8.45am-3.45pm. Weekly Staff Training on a Tuesday until 4.30pm is included.

The successful candidate will:

  • are about providing the best opportunities for children with SEN
  • Be calm and patient, especially when a child is showing dysregulated behaviour.
  • have the highest expectations of children and support them to achieve these
  • be a team player, think on their feet and show initiative
  • understand the importance of safeguarding in all aspects of school life
  • Be able to physically support pupils when needed (with appropriate training provided).

Please see the school website - www.parkside.norfolk.sch.uk for an understanding of the school and our work. 

Visits to the school are recommended and can be arranged through the school Reception team on 01603 441126.

For an informal discussion please contact Mrs Ellis-Gage (Headteacher) or Mr Habershon (Deputy Head) on 01603 441126.


How to apply

A job description and a person specification are available from ‘Attachments’.

For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ you will be redirected to our website and then to our recruitment website to application using our online application form.


Closing date:   6 July 2025, midnight

Interview date:  14 July 2025


Parkside School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, the successful candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment checks. 

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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 are not accepted.

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About The Parkside School, Norwich

School type
Special school, ages 7 to 18
School size
181 pupils enrolled
Age range
7 to 18
Ofsted report
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School location

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