1:1 Teaching Assistant (SEN) - Part-time

The Folkestone School for Girls, Folkestone

• Ref:KCC886-5437-225S
• Posted:18/06/2025
• Pay:FSG Pay Scheme Band 4 Point 11 - 14
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:09/07/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:Interviews to be held week commencing 14/07/25

Advert

1 to 1 SEN Teaching Assistant
Required for Sept 2025
FSG Pay Scheme Band 4 Point 11-14 (£24,546 - £25,459 pro rata)
Actual Salary £ 16828 - £17454
30 hours per week. Term time only.
1 Year Temporary contract with option to review and extend

We are a busy, vibrant, and happy school – academically successful but driven to achieve much more. We believe that education must maintain a balance between intellect and character. An outstanding education is not either/or. It is both. We believe that qualifications are what girls get; they do not define who they are and will play only a part in shaping the people they become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do.

At The Folkestone School for Girls, we are dedicated to providing an inclusive and supportive learning environment where every student is encouraged to achieve their full potential. Our committed staff work collaboratively to ensure that all students, regardless of their individual needs, receive the support and guidance they require to succeed

We seek to appoint a highly skilled and preferably experienced teaching assistant work 1:1 with a pupil who has complex and multiple needs. This role is pivotal in ensuring the student’s access to the curriculum and promoting their social and emotional development within the school community, therefore we require someone to work with the pupil 5 days per week, during normal school hours of 8:30am to 3:30pm. This role will cease once the student leaves the school.

Applicants should have:
• Minimum GCSE C/4 above in English, Maths and Science
• Experience working with young people with Autism and ADHD.
• Understanding of special educational needs and strategies for supporting students with diverse learning needs.
• Excellent verbal, written, and non-verbal communication skills.
• Ability to understand and respond to the student's needs with patience and empathy.

You will need great people skills, resilience and enthusiasm and a capacity for sustained hard work. Perhaps most importantly, you will be positive, optimistic and have a can-do attitude to anything that will benefit FSG Students.

You can find out all about our school and about our unique school vision and ethos via our school website. Details of this position and an application form are available
on our website www.folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk
or by email: KWhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

Only applications submitted on the school or Kent Teach application forms will be considered

Closing Date: 9th July 2025 at midday
Interviews to be held week commencing 14th July 2025

The Folkestone School for Girls is committed to the protection and safety of its students.
Applicants should be aware that we use the Disclosure and Barring Service to assess suitability for positions of trust.
Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education Legislation.
An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Information about the school

The Folkestone School for Girls is driven by the unshakeable belief that exam results are what you get; they do not define who you are and will play only a part in shaping the person you become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do! We want all girls to have the opportunity to explore and excel, to learn and to grow - not only in the classroom but beyond it. Alongside our unique personal development and character education programme, the FSGBacc, our international outlook is also at the heart of what we do and equally vital to our ethos; we want our girls to know that as human beings there is much more that unites us than divides us.

We believe that our curriculum should not just interest and inspire the girls, not just reflect and respond and be relevant to the world we live in but that we need to be much more ambitious; that the curriculum we teach should help to change the world for the better: a curriculum that teaches our girls to value themselves, value each other, value the world we live in and the world around them. A curriculum for values. A curriculum for empathy. A curriculum for wisdom.

A curriculum to change their world. A curriculum to change the world.

Our ambition for our school is to be the best in the world; nothing less. To be world leading and world changing; to know the whole child/every child and have a curriculum which develops the whole child/every child.

Our ambition for our girls is that they leave us after seven years well qualified and well rounded; intellect and character. They will feel ten feet tall, be bold and spectacular. They will have the knowledge, the skills, the drive, the courage, the wisdom, the optimism and the values to change the world for the better.

Intellect & character. This is our curriculum. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. We are extremely proud of it.

Come join us.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Kathryn Whawell
• Address:The Folkestone School For Girls, Coolinge Lane, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3RB
• Telephone: 01303 251125
• Email: kwhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

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