Teaching Assistant - Full-time

Danecourt School, Gillingham

• Ref:KCC887-7031-171S
• Posted:04/04/2025
• Pay:Grade D2 Point 4 + SEN Allow
• Start Date:As soon as possible
• App Close Date:09/05/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Join Our Supportive Team as a Teaching Assistant and Help Shape Young Lives!

Location: Danecourt School, with satellite provisions at Featherby Primary School (Gillingham) and Bligh Primary School (Strood)

Contracted Hours: 28.75 hours per week (8:45 am – 3:15 pm, Monday to Friday, 39 weeks, term-time only)

Are you passionate about supporting children with special educational needs (SEND) to reach their full potential? If you’re an enthusiastic, patient, and committed individual with experience in SEND education, we’d love for you to join our warm and dedicated team at Danecourt School.

As a Teaching Assistant at Danecourt, you’ll work closely with our teachers to create a nurturing and engaging learning environment for primary-aged children with complex needs, including autism and social, emotional, and mental health challenges. You’ll help pupils thrive academically, socially, and emotionally through:

• Tailored support for individual or small groups of students.
• Providing personal care as needed to ensure students’ well-being.
• Collaborating with our teaching staff to implement creative and effective learning strategies.
• Encouraging independence and fostering a love of learning in each student.

What We’re Looking For:

We are seeking enthusiastic Teaching Assistants who are:

• Ideally qualified with an NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent) in Childcare or SEND practice.
• Experienced in working with pupils with special educational needs, particularly autism (ASD).
• Proficient in numeracy and literacy skills, with qualifications equivalent to GCSE Grade A-C.
• Flexible, patient, and proactive, willing to take initiative and work as part of a supportive team.
• Passionate about inclusive education, and committed to making a lasting difference in the lives of our students.
• Comfortable providing personal care when required.

Why Join Us?

At Danecourt, we value our staff as much as our students, and as part of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• A positive, supportive working environment where your contributions are celebrated.
• National terms and conditions, including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Opportunities for continuous professional development (CPD) and cross-trust development opportunities.
• Access to wellbeing initiatives, including our Employee Assistance Programme.
• The Early Salary Access Scheme and financial advice through Wagestream.

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to meet you! Visits to the school are warmly welcomed — contact our office to arrange a tour and see our wonderful community in action.

For further details, including a full job description, please refer to the attached candidate application pack. 

Diversity and Inclusion:
At Maritime Academy Trust, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the wide range of perspectives and skills in our community. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better the outcomes for our students.

Please note that we may hold interviews on a rolling basis as applications are received and reserve the right to offer the position before the closing date. Submit your application as soon as possible to avoid missing out on this fantastic opportunity.

Information about the school

Danecourt Special School is part of the Maritime Multi-Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway . Our schools transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills. We are a special school catering for primary aged children who have special educational needs. The children who attend Danecourt have a wide breadth of needs including complex learning difficulties and autism.

At Danecourt our mission is support all pupils to become “STARS” -

S - Self reliant T - Team Players A - Aspirational R - Resilient S - Successful

This is facilitated through pupils receiving a personalised curriculum that is tailored to meet their individual specific needs. The highly trained staff team maintain high expectations of what each individual pupil is able to achieve, striving to ensure that they all reach their maximum potential; celebrating difference and encouraging curiosity and creativity. Staff work collaboratively with families/carers and a range of other agencies in order to meet the pupils needs and as a result, pupils make strong progress academically, emotionally and socially. Pupil achievement is hugely valued and celebrated in a manner that is meaningful and appropriate for each pupil.

If you are interested in becoming a part of the Danecourt community and working with us, telephone the school and make an appointment to come and meet some of the pupils and staff and to experience for yourself the quality of education given to all of our children and the unique atmosphere throughout our school.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Maritime Academy Trust
• Address:50 John Harrison Way, Greenwich, London, SE10 0BG
• Telephone: 020 8858 0394
• Email: recruitment@maritimeacademytrust.org

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Application Pack