Teaching Assistant – SEN

Teaching Assistant – SEN

Location: Rockshaw Road, Chaldon, Surrey

Contract Type: Permanent

Actual Annual Salary: £24,139.67 - £25,819.26 actual salary dependant on qualifications and experience Plus £1000 Welcome bonus* 

Salary:£13.51 - £14.45 per hour 

Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Start time 8.15am - Finish time Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 4.45pm. Thursday 5pm and Friday 4pm    

Start date: As soon as possible 

Aurora Chaldon School 

As part of our growth strategy, The Aurora Group are really pleased to be opening a brand new SEND Secondary School in September 2025 in Chaldon, Surrey for young people aged 11-16 who require support with social communication, emotional regulation and sensory processing, typically associated with Autism. All our students have access to a broad and exciting curriculum, allied to the national curriculum, personalised to meet their needs, interests and passions. With a model of small classes, high levels of classroom support and a supernumerary multi-disciplinary intervention team we are able to give students “every opportunity to achieve”

We are looking to recruit Teaching Assistants to join our team at Chaldon School. This is an exciting opportunity to join the school at the start of their journey. You will be based at Aurora Chaldon school with a requirement to work out of our satellite site Caterham when required.

The main purpose of the role:

The purpose of the Teaching Assistant is to support the children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.

Key duties:

• Take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare and positive wellbeing of pupils according to the school’s policies, including safeguarding and PREVENT.
  

• Provide meaningful feedback on pupil behaviour, relationships and attitudes.
  

• Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children.
  

• Establish a positive relationship with pupils in order to support them in feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn.
  

• Promote and encourage independence and personal development and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times and support in the achievement of this.
  

• Implement, and when appropriate, adjust learning activities as agreed with the teacher. Reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
  

• Support learning by arranging/providing resources for lessons/activities under the direction of the teacher.
  

• Implement learning activities and experiences, appropriate to the class group, by supporting the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning.
  

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. 

Successful candidate qualities:

• GCSE Maths and English qualification minimum Grade 4 or equivalent is essential.
  

• L2 award in supporting teaching and learning in schools or equivalent or willingness to work towards
  

• Previous experience of working within a relevant SEND Provision.
  

• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
  

• Experience of managing a range of approaches to behaviour, including managing behaviours that challenge.
  

• Experience working within education is advantageous
  

• Experience of working within a multi-cultural, inclusive setting
  

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
  

• Enhanced Pension
  

• * Welcome bonus is payable in 2 payments - 50% following successful completion of probation and 50% after one year service

• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
  

• Employee assistance programme
  

• Car lease scheme
  

• Fully funded training and qualifications
  

• Bike to work scheme
  

• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
  

• Free parking
  

How to apply:

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.  If you need any assistance or would like any more information, please contact Liz in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at liz.hudson@theauroragroup.co.uk

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.