SEN Teaching Assistant - Part-time - Special Needs Position

King's Reach Education, Maidstone

• Ref:KCC886-6170-29S
• Posted:23/06/2025
• Pay:£17,262 Actual
• Start Date:1st September 2025
• App Close Date:08/07/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:11th July 2025

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Job title: SEN Teaching Assistant 

Salary: £17,262 actual per annum  

Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30am – 3:00pm Term time 

Contract type: Part time 32 hrs, Fixed term 

Reporting to: Head of House 

We are looking for strong, resilient people to work within our Independent special school who are committed to improving the lives of young people.  This is a great opportunity for you to join our team of dedicated and friendly professionals. 

Staff at King's Reach are expected to fully engage with students, drawing on their own life experiences and learning opportunities to support and encourage students.  This position is demanding as well as rewarding and gives staff and students opportunities to grow.   

We now have a fantastic opportunity for an SEN TA to join King’s Reach Education.  If you are looking to join a highly dedicated team in a challenging and rewarding environment, we would love to hear from you! 

We welcome applicants from an array of backgrounds. 

Overview 

King’s Reach is a unique Education provision where “Education without limits” is the driving force behind our work with our male students.  We seek to understand every student’s story and unlock their unidentified aspirations, passions, and innate potential. We commit to being available, constant and accepting of each of them.  We nurture aspiration, self-belief and resilience in our students through our Future Me programme, preparing them for the challenges of adult life in a changing world. 

King’s Reach is a unique, one-of-a-kind school based in Maidstone in the heart of Kent providing individually personalised and bespoke learning programmes for boys and young men aged 11– 25 with special educational needs and disabilities. We define ourselves as a community; an authentic family where ‘education without limits’ is the driving force behind our work with children and young people. 

Main Responsibilities 

• Provide learning and care support for students that require two adults to support their learning and development.
• Work with the student coach and tutors to plan and deliver lessons and activities as required for personal growth of the student.
• Support students with routines, transitions and behaviour management.
• Deliver learning through a variety of creative ways to maximise engagement.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS 

Information about the school

King's Reach is a unique community; an authentic family where we do not limit how we educate our young people. Our approach and philosophy is firmly rooted in the principals of trauma informed practices, and through unconditional child-centred relationships, we seek to understand every young person’s story and unlock their unidentified aspirations, passions and innate potential. We nurture these by working with humility, warmth, love and integrity to inspire a belief in all our young people that they CAN achieve, grow and reach their potential despite their past experiences or starting points.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Paul Kirrage
• Address:St Hilary's House, Senacre, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 8SW
• Telephone: 01622 693737
• Email: recruitment@kingsreach.org.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• TA Job Description
• Letter from the Head