Personal Care and Teaching Assistant
32.5 hours per week - Term Time Only, Fixed Term for 1 Year. Required to start September 2026.
About the role
We are looking for a suitably qualified and enthusiastic Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to join our established learning support team. The role is primarily to facilitate greater inclusion and remove barriers for students with identified or moving towards being identified as requiring SEN support. Experience in working with students with a wide range of SEND and a desire to work with young people in supporting their welfare and wellbeing is essential.
The Learning Support department at Colonel Frank Seely Academy is managed by the SENDCo with support from a team of Teaching Assistants who are supportive, caring, and passionate. We are looking to appoint a Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to further enrich the team. We seek someone who is kind, dedicated, and hardworking from any educational background and any key stage that wishes to progress to a secondary environment within SEND. There is a pathway for progression within this role and CPD to support it.
Pay
Band 7, scale points 32–36. Actual salary: £22,094 – £23,923 per annum (FTE: £26,141 – £28,305).
Benefits
- Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with service, plus statutory holidays
- Recognised continuous local government service for annual leave entitlement and Occupational Maternity/Paternity pay
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee benefits platform
- Opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school