SEN Teaching Assistant

Hours: 35 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time)

Anticipated Start Date: October 2024

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Teaching Assistant. You will be well organised, IT literate and have excellent communication skills both written and verbal. It would be advantageous to be qualified to NVQ3 or equivalent and have experience of supporting students with specific needs.

Ebbsfleet Green is a values-based learning community, committed to the education of the whole child. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated experienced SEN teaching assistant, who enjoys working collaboratively, to join our supportive and successful team. You will be a dedicated professional, committed to ensuring the best life chances for children, and someone who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills of best practice. You will have experience of working with children with ASD and support our wider SEN team with the development of strategies and resources.

We have children from nursery to year 3 with a specialist provision for children with ASD and we will eventually grow into a two form entry school as the Ebbsfleet Green Community grows around us.

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School is part of the Maritime Multi-Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent & Medway. Our academies transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills. 

If you have: 

• A commitment to the Ebbsfleet Green community and our intention to put Ebbsfleet Green Primary School at its heart.    
• A passion for learning and the skills to impart knowledge and develop skill sets in our children.    
• A commitment to self and team development.
• Experience of working with children with SEN 

In return we will offer you: 

• A new and bespoke curriculum designed to draw upon the opportunities that working in a new school in a Garden City will bring.    
• National terms and conditions    
• Local Government pension scheme
• Tailored programmes of CPD and possible cross trust development opportunities   
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Early Salary Access Scheme & financial advice (Wagestream) 
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance programme.

Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Further information about this post, the school and Trust is in the attached candidate information pack. 

Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via the My New Term website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. 

The Trust and its academies are committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks may be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.

In line with KCSIE 2024 guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and to share any pertinent information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children with Hiring Managers to be discussed at interview stage.