SEN Teaching Assistant - Term Time - Special Needs Position

Danecourt School, Gillingham

• Ref:MED887-7031-184S
• Posted:15/08/2025
• Pay:Medway D2 (points 4-11) + SEN Allowance
• Start Date:ASAP
• App Close Date:17/10/2025 at 11:00
• Interviews:TBC

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

Location: Danecourt School, with satellite sites at Featherby Primary (Gillingham) and Bligh Primary (Strood)
Salary: Medway D2 (Point 4–11) £16,238.72–£18,469.88 (Actual) + SEN Allowance £1,319 (Actual)
Hours: 28.75 per week (8:45 am – 3:15 pm, Mon–Fri)
Contract: Term Time Only, 39 weeks, Permanent

We are looking for caring, committed Teaching Assistants to join Danecourt School and support primary-aged pupils with complex needs, including autism and social, emotional, and mental health challenges.

About the Role
Every day is different, filled with opportunity, challenge, and reward. You will:

• Support individuals or small groups to access learning and build independence

• Provide care and emotional support in a safe, encouraging space

• Help deliver creative, inclusive lessons

• Build pupils’ confidence, resilience, and love of learning

You may work across our main school or satellite sites in Gillingham and Strood.

Who You Are
We’re looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about supporting children with SEND

• Flexible, proactive, and a great team player

• Calm, compassionate, and able to adapt

• Confident with personal care

• Skilled in literacy/numeracy and experience or qualifications in SEND support (e.g. NVQ Level 2) are desirable.

About Danecourt
We provide tailored learning to meet each child’s needs, with specialist facilities including outdoor learning areas, sensory playrooms, and therapy support. Part of the Maritime Multi-Academy Trust, we work collaboratively to equip children with essential life skills.

Why Join Us?

• Supportive, team-based culture across all sites

• Clear progression pathways, including routes into teaching

• Regular training and weekly CPD

• Opportunity to contribute to the Maritime Outreach Support Service

• School holidays off for work–life balance

We’re proud winners of the Primary Special School Provision category at the Medway Parents and Carers Forum SEND Awards.

Ready to Make a Difference?
Come and see what makes Danecourt special — call 01634 232589 to arrange a visit.
Apply via My New Term. Early applications are encouraged as we may interview before the closing date.

Danecourt School and the Maritime Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We value diversity and aim to build a team reflecting varied backgrounds and perspectives. All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online searches in line with safeguarding guidance.

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