Teaching Assistant
Howard House School
Bedlington
- £23,995.69 - £29,956.53 per year
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 11 September 2026
Job overview
Teaching Assistant
Howard House School, Bedlington, Northumberland
Salary: £23,995.69 - £29,956.53 per annum (DOE)
Hours of Week: 40 Term Time Only
Contract Type: Permanent
Requirements:
Be able to maintain effective record keeping
Ability to supervise groups of students
Ability to support/instruct other TA’s and support staff
Ability to effectively use ICT to support learning, or to undertake training to do so.
Good literacy and numeracy skills
Good organisational and time management skills
Ability to form and maintain appropriate professional relationships and boundaries with children and young people
Ability to deal with sensitive information in a confidential manner.
Awareness of legislation relating to child protection
As a teaching assistant you will:
Support teachers with: planning lessons, delivery of lessons and evaluating lessons.
Have a thorough understanding of the students, you work with, by reading Educational Health Care Plans, Individual Education Plans, Risk Assessment and other relevant documentation, in order to better meet their needs.
Keep up to date with any changes in learning and teaching related to subject area, including DfE guidance and curriculum changes and ensure staff are kept informed.
Keep up to date with any legislation or guidance pertaining to the safeguarding of children and young people.
Set high expectations so that all pupils are inspired, motivated and challenged to reach their full potential.
Create a positive climate for learning, by explicitly teaching lesson routines and applying behaviours systems consistently and fairly.
Create a positive climate for learning by explicitly teaching and modelling acceptable and agreed behaviour.
Support well-structured lessons which allo adequate time to embed new knowledge, understanding and skills and are responsive to pupils' understanding.
Systematically check pupils' understanding and act to correct any misconceptions.
provide pupils with feedback aimed at moving their leaning forward.
To support the planning and delivery of lessons across the curriculum.
About Howard House School:
Young Foundations is an award-winning organisation, providing step-down services, and specialist education, for children and young adults. Howard House School is an independent day special school, located in rural Bedlington, Northumberland, catering for pupils with SEMH and ASD. It is co-educational and can accept up to 40 pupils aged between 10 and 18 years.
Benefits of Working for us:
A rewarding career you can be truly proud of
A supportive environment that is committed to helping you flourish and deliver excellent care to the people we support
Competitive pay
Career development and training
Progression Opportunities
Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced maternity package
If this sounds like the role for you, apply now!
Young Foundations are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across the company in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, satisfactory reference, right to work checks and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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About Howard House School
- Howard House School
- Netherton Colliery, Bedlington
- Northumberland
- NE22 6BB
- United Kingdom
At Howard House "Every Child Matters" and quality is key. We work together with our young people, parents and professionals to ensure that they thrive and achieve positive outcomes.
We pride ourselves on having a committed and diverse staff team who have created a friendly and homely environment, where our young people are able to flourish, becoming independent and confident in themselves and everything they do.
The staff team at Howard House place great emphasis on building positive relationships, which allow a progressive and inclusive environment. We hope to empower children to make the decisions that will benefit their life chances. We treat every young person with unconditional positive regard, and the team foster the attitude that ‘every day is a new day’.
The staff team will offer positive guidance and direction, including helping our young people to understand and reflect on any impact their actions or behaviours may have on others, they will offer a supportive response that empowers our young people to be confident and self-assured whilst allowing personal identity and/or self-expression.
At Howard House we promote positive behaviour and choices by offering praise and support together with positive consequences.
Using a therapeutic parenting approach and building relationships encourages young people to flourish and grow in confidence as they begin to recognise their own potential and self-worth. Many of our young people have complex needs and have experienced attachment disorder, trauma and loss often entering our home at a time of crisis. Our staff team support a clinical, therapeutic and nurturing living environment within Howard House.
We are proud to have a staff team who pride themselves on their level of commitment and consistency with all our young people and apply the principles of ‘good parenting’ throughout their practice. We strive to offer a safe ‘family’ environment that promotes healing as well as growth
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