Special Needs Teaching Assistant (SNTA)

Vacancy Summary

Are you ready for a rewarding career working with young people with SEND?

Here at Beechcliffe Keighley, now part of the esteemed Carlton Academy Trust, we are searching for committed and driven Special Needs Teaching Assistants to join our team and support our talented teachers in helping our youngsters to thrive.

Post title: Special Needs Teaching Assistant

Pay Scale: Band 5 SCP 4-6 (Actual Salary £17584 – £18415 per annum)

Starting February 2025

This is a permanent position, 31 hours per week, Mon 8.40am - 4.15pm, Tues - Fri 8.40am - 3.10pm, term time only plus 5 training days.

Beechcliffe Keighley is an over-subscribed school which meets the needs of 180 pupils who have severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties and autism spectrum disorder, and many of our pupils have additional complex health, medical and or sensory needs.

Vacancy Information

Our school ethos is ‘to provide opportunities within a broad and balanced, therapeutic curriculum so that each child can achieve success’, and we do this through a variety of lessons and activities both in school and in the wider community. As well as structured teaching in the classroom, we have amazing facilities on site that include a hydrotherapy pool, a life skills room, specialist music, ICT and food technology rooms, a multi-sensory rebound area, and fully equipped sensory rooms. We promote outdoor learning through our forest school and in our sensory and wildlife gardens, at our allotment and within the local environment; our pupils gain work experience at a local community café and attend courses at college, and we run both day and residential visits including participation in the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme.

PRIME OBJECTIVES OF THE POST:

• To complement, appreciate and support the role of teachers and other professionals by undertaking work/care/support programmes which enables access to learning and the community for pupils with a wide range of SEND as part of a teacher planned approach.
• To support the class teacher and other senior staff on a range of teaching and learning experiences which deliver an appropriately differentiated and suitably challenging creative curriculum for all SEND pupils with a wide range of needs whilst meeting statutory requirements.
• To implement agreed work programmes with individuals/groups of pupils with SEND, in or out of the learning environment. This will include assisting the teacher in the whole planning cycle and the management/preparation of tasks/resources.
• Work within school policies and procedures under the direction and guidance of senior staff and within an agreed system of supervision.
• May from time to time be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility defined in this job description.

For further details and to apply go to https://carltonacademytrust.co.uk/working-for-cat-vacancies-new/vacancies-new/

Closing Date: 12 noon, 20th January 2025

The school has adopted the principles of Safer Recruitment and will safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to do the same.  Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure.