SEN Teaching Assistant

West Hill School requires enthusiastic and motivated Teaching Assistants starting this term.

We are looking for the right people to join our happy, thriving, and growing school. You do not need previous school experience, but you must be:

- Keen, fun and friendly and want to work with children.

- Able to get involved and love the variety of life where no day looks the same.

- Are motivated, flexible and want to enhance and shape the next steps for children., Integrity - displaying honesty and having strong moral principles

Partnership - working together and taking collective ownership to achieve the same goals

Advocacy - working hard on behalf of others to maximise their success

Resilience - finding success again after something difficult or negative has happened

Compassion - displaying empathy towards and a desire to help others

Aspiration - aiming high to achieve success

If so, then becoming a TA could be just for you in either the short or the long term. In the short term, we offer wider training and experience e.g., Makaton and Attention Autism to help you secure the skills to support our very special children and our helpful team can guide and advise you to achieve your long-term goals.

Within The Howard Partnership Trust (THPT) there are career development opportunities available across a large number of partnership schools. In addition, THPT is also able to offer:

- an opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation

- Electronic Vehicle salary benefit

- an excellent benefit package including Cycle to Work and access to discount schemes

- a fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions

- rewards and benefits scheme that includes Loyalty and Service Awards

- full access to the Employee Assistance Programme.

Values and Behaviours

We are a values-based organisation and seek to recruit individuals who can demonstrate our values.

Our values will be assessed through the selection process, so we ask all applicants when providing their supporting statement to also incorporate not only how they meet the essential criteria for the role but to also demonstrate our values.