Job Description

SEN Teaching Assistant

William Morris School, Eastington, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire GL10 3SH

Start date: January 2026 (or sooner)

Closing date for applications: 5th November 2025

Would you like to make a difference and work for a charity?

Novalis Trust is a charity that supports children and adults with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties and other learning needs. William Morris School is trauma informed, attachment focused, and relationship based supporting young people who in some cases have experienced childhood trauma and adversity and who as a result have complex needs.

Responsibilities for this role:

Teaching Assistants have a crucial role in the school, through establishing key relationships with students, and through these relationships supporting engagement, motivation and skills development.

Benefits for this role include:

Excellent training opportunities

Supportive team environment and all levels of experience welcome.

From 21,850 per annum. Teaching Assistants with relevant experience will be placed at the appropriate level of the pay scale.

Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm.

Pension Scheme

Free onsite parking and free lunch/meals provided

Entitled to apply for Blue Light discount card

Health Cash Plan for Employees

Employee welcome bonus where you could earn an additional 600 in the first year, with payments made between 6 weeks and 1 year (subject to the normal PAYE deductions)

Positive community feel

Requirements for this role are

:

A keenness to learn and a willingness to implement our model of approach and best practice models in education.

Kind, caring, adaptable and reliable.

An understanding or experience of Education settings.

Desirable skills:

Experience of or an interest in phonics

Experience of or a willingness to deliver structured support to individuals or small groups as directed by the SENCo

An application pack will be sent out once you register your interest, please check your spam folder for this.

Novalis Trust is committed to Safeguarding. If shortlisted, you will receive a self-disclosure form to complete and return to us prior to interview. All applications will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Check for Regulated Activity.

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Teaching Assistant

Reporting to

Head Teacher

Main responsibilities

- Providing and delivering learning support to assist teachers and pupils as required by teaching staff

- Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and groups of pupils

- Providing guidance to pupils on educational and social matters

- Contributing to assessments and reports

- Eating with and providing a safe, creative, and caring lunchtime environment for day pupils

- Delivering teaching materials and learning activities to individual pupils, small groups and class groups as required

- Assisting in the development of courses, teaching materials, teaching programmes, teaching methods and pastoral arrangements

- Promoting order and discipline throughout the school and at outside activities including being trained in physical intervention techniques (Team Teach) and carrying out physical interventions when required

- Participating in staff meetings, assemblies and meetings involving teaching staff as required

- Carrying out associated administrative tasks

General

- Undertaking training in personal and professional skills and in the Trust's ethos and systems and applying these in your working environment

- Assisting in the creation of a caring, stimulating, and safe environment for client groups, staff and visitors

- Safeguarding and promoting the reputation of the Trust

- Taking all reasonable steps to safeguard your health and safety and that of the Trust's client groups, staff and visitors

Mandatory training

- Safeguarding Children in Education and KCSIE updates (annually)

- Safeguarding Adults Online (biannually)

- Online Prevent Training (during induction)

- Health and Safety - Fire/CosHH/food safety/manual handling (every 3 years)

- Team Teach (every 2 years)

- First Aid (1 or 3-day course)

- Advised Training: Trauma Level 4

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Discounted or free food Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Sick pay
Work Location: In person