Overview and Responsibilities

Teaching Assistant - SEN

Location:Rockshaw Road, Chaldon, SurreyContract Type: Permanent

Actual Annual Salary:£24,139.67 - £25,819.26 actual salary dependant on qualifications and experiencePlus £1000 Welcome bonus Salary: £13.51 - £14.45 per hourHours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Start time 8.15am - Finish timeMonday/Tuesday/Wednesday 4.45pm. Thursday 5pm and Friday 4pm

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, Surreyfor 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 maintainhigh 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. Please see the link below for our full job description:

Job Description - Teaching Assistant

For more information about this exciting role and school, please see the following link - Teaching Assistant Recruitment Pack

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

Experience of managing a range of approaches to behaviour, including managing behaviours that challenge. Experience working within education is advantageous