Special Needs Teaching Assistant

Hours per week: 31 (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 8:30am - 3pm and Wednesday 8:30am - 4pm)

Contract type: Permanent - term time only plus 4 days

The post will be based at our West site.

Do you have a passion for working with children and want to help make a difference to their lives? Come and join the team at Chellow Heights.

We are recruiting for a Special Needs Teaching Assistant to join our expanding team, working in small classes of pupils in a special school setting. You will have experience working with children with a range of special needs and be an outstanding practitioner with passion and commitment to making a difference. The successful candidate will support pupils in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. You will work as part of a team of specialist staff to contribute to the effective and efficient teaching and learning of pupils with additional needs.

About Chellow Heights

Chellow Heights school is a large special school which is located on two separate sites. Both sites offer exceptional learning environments for our pupils which enhance their learning and quality of life experiences. These include an outstanding outdoor provision, multi-sensory rooms, soft play, food technology rooms and our ‘engine’ rooms which are used to support our pupils with their sensory processing.

Our West Site is the larger provision and in addition to the resources highlighted above, also boasts a multi-sensory hydrotherapy pool, rebound therapy room, music therapy room and jungle gym (soft play room).

Our South Site is a much smaller provision in terms of the size of building yet capitalises brilliantly on the large outdoor space available.

Our mission statement ‘ Enjoy, achieve, excel, excite, one vision, one community, new heights ’encapsulates our purpose. We believe that children learn best when they are having fun and enjoy what they do. Although located on two separate sites (South & West), we are very much one community with one vision to provide a personalised education to our pupils.

Chellow Heights is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful staff will be requested to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check and where applicable a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as part of our overall vetting checks.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and they do not need to be disclosed to employers. If they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website and further information about filtering offences can be found in DBS filtering guide