Teaching Assistant

About The Role

Job Title: Teaching Assistant

Job Location: Petherton Park School, North Petherton (TA6)

Salary: Between £23,475.20 and £24,371.20 per annum, based on working 40 hours per week, term time only (39.2 weeks per year)

Contract Type: Permanent

Every person deserves the right to access meaningful education. Some pupils may require additional assistance in order to access education that is built around their needs. As a Teaching Assistant, you’ll work with neurodiverse children and young people (Aged between 7 - 16) that have additional needs related to communication and interaction, cognition, and learning, sensory and/or physical.

Our curriculum is tailored to each individual child, rather than taking a conventional mainstream approach. Each pupil’s learning is based on their own needs, goals, strengths, and aspirations. Whilst some of our pupils will go on to complete formal qualificatio...