SEMH Teaching Assistant
Fairfax School
Birmingham
- £23,934 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- £23,934 actual (£31,022 – £32,061 FTE)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 September 2025
Job overview
We are looking for an SEMH Teaching Assistant to join a well-led and motivated team committed to continuous improvement.
This is an exciting time to join the academy and a great opportunity to be involved in the next stage of development of this strong team. This is an ideal opportunity for a colleague who is ambitious, creative and enthusiastic about helping students to learn in a strong, supportive environment.
Closing date: 3.00pm on 29 September 2025.
In this role, you will:
- Set high expectations which motivate and challenge students in a productive learning environment
- Promote good outcomes by students
- Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge
- Adapt to respond to the strengths and needs of all students
- Fulfil wider professional responsibilities with high standards of personal and professional conduct
About us
At the heart of Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, Fairfax Academy has been on a path of continued improvement to become an Outstanding provider of education and wellbeing. With attendance above the national average and improved behaviour, Fairfax is a school that nurtures holistic development. We’re a large Academy with just over 1,500 students from Years 7 to 13, but we value creating a sense of belonging, with a House System that generates a family feel amongst our students – and we want you to be part of it.
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust
At Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, we enrich lives and transform futures. Our four academies in and around Birmingham offer an outstanding quality of education, recognising that all our children are individuals and delivering exceptional pastoral care to ensure their happiness. Whilst we place strong emphasis on academic achievement, we take a holistic view of education and maintain exciting extracurricular programmes to create the well-rounded young adults of tomorrow. We’re also creating outstanding careers that could take you anywhere within our network – and take your future anywhere you want to go.
Benefits
When you join Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, you join a nurturing family where your professional satisfaction and personal happiness really count. You can expect heavy investment in your career development alongside an outstanding package of benefits, including:
- Educational support
- Flexi perks
- Salary sacrifice scheme
- Perkbox subscription
- Professional learning and regular training
- Counselling, Mental Health First Aiders and access to a Wellness Hub
- Wellbeing updates and stress management guidance
- Menopause awareness training
- Free flu jabs
- Access to fitness programmes, including yoga, HIIT and more
- Access to physical activities during our Trust-wide Wellbeing Week
- Diet and nutrition webinars
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and 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: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
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About Fairfax School
From the moment you enter the gates of Fairfax Academy, you realise what a unique school this is; one that develops students through its traditional values, ethos and sense of community, whilst also excelling academically.
Our core values and beliefs form the foundation of who “we” are. Excellence, Dedication, Ambition, Integrity and Tradition embodies all we do. Every decision, action and strategy centres around them, to ensure we collectively produce the very best outcomes for all.
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Applications closed