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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