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SEN Teaching Assistant
SEN Teaching Assistant
Salary: Grade 3 - Points 9 -14 (£26,409- £28,624)
Actual: £22,804.19 - £24,716.84
Working time: Permanent, Term Time Only
Hours: Full Time (36.5 hours per week)
Start date: September 2025
Are you committed to inspiring and motivating students?
Enthusiastic and optimistic in wanting the very best for each student?
We are seeking applications from dedicated and hardworking professionals with a desire to work in a successful, thriving, and supportive academy making a positive contribution to our pastoral team.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant difference to a wide range of learners. You must be a positive and passionate individual with a commitment to delivering outstanding support to young people.
We wish to appoint a highly motivated, outstanding Teaching Assistant to provide high quality SEND provision, who can assist with intimate and personal care needs.
You will work with teaching staff to develop teaching resources to support the learning of students, and you will raise the aspiration of students through coaching and mentoring.
This role would suit someone who is compassionate and caring and is committed to making a positive change to young people’s lives. This role involves working across a variety of different classes, so you need to be able to easily adapt and work with children of different levels/ needs and be able to provide 121 supervision and personal and intimate care for someone with additional needs.
You should have a flexible approach, be able to build a rapport with staff and students and be able to work under pressure. To be successful in this role you should hold a teaching assistant qualification or relevant degree and have experience of working within a classroom setting.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to shape and develop their career in a highly experienced and supportive environment.
Candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification, and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description.
Taken from our Ofsted Inspection in November 2022: ‘Aspire, Believe, Achieve’ is at the heart of Harborne Academy. Aspirational words and images surround pupils in corridors and classrooms. Pupils welcome these. Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do. Pupils are happy and safe at school.
For more information and to apply, contact the academy on 0121 464 2737 or email recruitment@harborneacademy.co.uk. Please apply directly on the academy website (Job Vacancies - Harborne Academy) and email the recruitment inbox with your application.
If you would like to visit the academy, please contact the HR Manager via laura.harris@harborneacademy.co.uk
Closing date: 15th August 2025 @ 15:00
Interviews: TBC with successful candidates
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Working for us
‘Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do.
Harborne Academy continues to be a good school’. – Ofsted 2022
We believe that our staff are crucial to the success of Harborne Academy and are the people who will have the most impact on our success. By looking after our staff, we will maximise the life chances and opportunities for our students.
Ensuring our staff are supported and given the opportunities to develop is our priority.
Our staff are dedicated, passionate professionals who go above and beyond to ensure that students are safe, happy, learning and progressing. Staff well-being is paramount, and we strive for that work-life balance for all staff, whatever their role within the academy.
At the academy we have high expectations. We expect staff to challenge students and themselves. We set high standards and aim to display these in all that we do.
We are a great school to work in for a number of reasons:
- Fantastic CPD with extensive professional development opportunities
- A vibrant and exciting academy which is culturally and ethnically diverse.
- Members of the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter (a declaration of support for, and a set of commitments, to the wellbeing and mental health of everyone working in education)
- 1 paid absence staff day per academic year (to be used for weddings etc.)
- 24 hours access to our Employee Assistance Programme that offer services like: virtual GP, stress coaching, counselling, physiotherapy sessions and many more
- Flexible working on offer (period 1 or period 5 PPA for flexibility). Bespoke flexibility for support staff available.
- Wellbeing comittee with a wellbeing fund available
- Employee star of the month
If you share our ambition to provide an exceptional experience for every child in the academy, please click below to see the current opportunities we have available:
We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive sufficient applications for roles. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Harborne Academy is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust, and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, which may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, suitable references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
As part of our recruitment checks, an online search will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates. This search does not form part of the shortlisting process, and you will have the opportunity to discuss any issues of concern that may arise from this search at the interview.
