Therapy Assistant - Term Time

Five Acre Wood School, Maidstone

• Ref:KCC886-7056-846S
• Posted:03/12/2025
• Pay:Actual £21,692.40 inc. SEN
• Start Date:TBC
• App Close Date:12/12/2025 at 10:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Are you an exceptional special needs practitioner and able to bring out the best in our pupils with special talents, aged 4 – 19, with severe, profound or complex needs?

Job Summary

Five Acre Wood School are continuing to grow our therapy team and are looking for an inspirational Therapy Assistant to join this very special school. You will be working within a team, employed by the school, made up of a Therapy Lead, two Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and two other Therapy Assistants. As part of your day to day work you might also liaise with visiting therapists who work for the National Health Service.

The role is a full time, term time only position working 32.5 hours, 8:30am -3:30pm, Monday to Friday. Salary is based on a KSD and includes a FAW allowance, actual salary for this role is £21,692.40 per annum.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve working directly and indirectly with pupils, teaching teams and, at times, pupil’s families. You will also be involved in project work, resource making and other clerical and administrative tasks. Although you will be highly organised and able to work autonomously, your workload will be determined in collaboration with other members of the therapy team.

As a valued member of our learning community, you will have an opportunity to develop and extend your current expertise to the highest standard. In return, you will be professional and enthusiastic, with an eye for detail and ability to problem solve in positive and constructive ways.

Successful candidates may either be experienced and successful Therapy or Teaching Assistants who enjoy team working and taking responsibility. You will have also worked in a Special Needs or child-based environment.

You will be required to work across all our sites across Maidstone and Snodland.

Information about the school

Five Acre Wood is an “Outstanding", forward looking school with an international reputation. We are ambitious for our pupils, and we pride ourselves on working with many leaders in the field of special education.

We play an important role in our community and enjoy strong local links which give our pupils opportunities to play active and meaningful roles in their own communities.

Sometimes words cannot explain how something really is, we would encourage you to view the 3 links below.

We hold an annual music festival for our pupils, it gives them the opportunity experience something they may not ordinarily be able to access. You can see it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xOR-PlaONI (If the link doesn’t connect - You Tube “Five Acre Woodstock 2019 – Amazing Festival in a Day”)

Nathan Grisdale was on the X factor and reached the “Six chair challenge”. He heard about our school. He wrote a song for us and filmed it with our pupils. You can see it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJF9MlJHt-I (If the link doesn’t connect – You Tube Nathan Grisdale - Don't Give Up (Official music video)

Jack Rose broke the Itunes Top Twenty with his collaboration with Five Acre Wood School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maa_veNaobU (If the link doesn’t connect – You Tube: Five Acre Wood feat Jack Rose – Hall of Fame

If you want to work in a school that prides itself on making a difference to the pupils and families who we work with then please say ‘hello’. We look forward to hearing from you.

Five Acre Wood is committed to the safeguarding of all its pupils, you will therefore be subject to an enhanced disclosure process. As part of our responsibility for safeguarding, in addition to the Kent policy of one employment and one personal reference, the school will request additional employment references.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Nicola Devereux
• Address:Boughton Lane, Maidstone , Kent, ME15 9QF
• Telephone: (01622) 743925
• Email: hr@five-acre.kent.sch.uk

Fax: 01622 744828