Bank Specialist Teaching Assistant

Job Title- Bank Specialist Teaching Assistant

Location- The Children’s Trust, Tadworth

Contract Type- BANK- Dependent on availability

 Salary- £16.25ph

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bank Specialist Teaching Assistant to join our team. This role will require the successful candidate to support an integrated and holistic approach to education, health and care. You will work under the direct supervision of an allocated Teacher / Senior Specialist Teaching Assistant; to support access to learning and provide general support to the Teacher, in the management of pupils learning opportunities. You will also assist the Teacher in providing relevant support for pupils with severe learning difficulties (SLD); profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD); and complex therapeutic, medical and health needs. The role is based within The Children’s Trust School, and you may be required to work in either a single class or a number of different classes, in order to meet the needs of all pupils.

You will possess a natural enthusiasm and passion for teaching and care, will proactively support an already high performing team, and you will need to have previous experience of working with pupils with severe learning difficulties (SLD); profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD); and complex therapeutic, medical and health needs..

You will possess a natural enthusiasm and passion for teaching and care, will proactively support an already high performing team, and you will need to have previous experience of working with pupils with severe learning difficulties (SLD); profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD); and complex therapeutic, medical and health needs.

This is a chance for an outstanding candidate to make a significant and lasting difference to the lives of thousands of children and families.

Staff benefits include London weighting, free shuttle bus, and more… Read more below

If you would like to discuss the role, please contact the Recruitment & Compliance Team, on 01737 365 880 or email: recruitment@thechildrenstrust.org.uk

For more information and for a copy of the candidate briefing pack please click here.

Terms and Conditions

PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process. 

Strictly no agencies, please.

As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion.

About Us

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

Staff Benefits

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include: free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Coulsdon South, Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Rehabilitation of Offender’s

We comply with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) code of practice and have a written policy on the recruitment of applicants with criminal records, both of which are available on request.

NHS Covid Pass

The Children’s Trust has a duty of care to minimise the risk of all infectious diseases to the vulnerable and extremely vulnerable children and young people in our care, as well as our employees and volunteers. As a result, we require staff to provide a valid NHS Covid Pass (or proof of Covid vaccinations or medical exemption) for all roles at Tadworth Court and in the Brain Injury Community Service. We also expect staff to have taken or be willing to take relevant immunisations required by the role to protect them against infectious diseases, (unless you are medically exempt).

Equal Opportunity Employer

To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements. If you would like to find out more about our EDI work before applying contact Georgia Pulman - gpulman@thechildrenstrust.org.uk.

Online Searches

In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.