Teaching Assistant - Swinderby, near Lincoln
Salary: £19,303.31-£22,185, depending on experience and qualifications.
We are recruiting Teaching Assistants to join our Education Team at our SEN Kisimul School in Lincolnshire, in the village of Swinderby near Lincoln LN6. This role works from 09:15am - 16:00pm Monday to Friday, with 13 weeks annual leave (65 days).
What we do:
At Kisimul we are dedicated to helping people find their unique gifts, grow their abilities within a therapeutic community, and move towards a future that is meaningful. We put individual needs, values, aspirations, and outcomes at the centre of everything we do, delivering safe, compassionate services built upon a culture of continuous improvement, with outcome focused and quality driven services.
What will you get?
- Small class sizes
- A supportive team around you who will be ambitious for the school, the pupils and you
- Professional development and ongoing training
- A beautiful school and grounds to work within
- Full funded DBS checks
- Blue Light card - which gives you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
- Refer a friend - Earn up to £500 through our refer a friend scheme
- WageStream - a financial wellbeing app that allows early access to some of your wages for unforeseen expenses
- - a well being app which gives you access to unlimited GP appointments, confidential 24/7 mental health support and physiotherapy sessions
- Life Assurance
Role overview:
- To provide support, learning and education in a therapeutically informed way to learners in school, facilitating a positive lived experience enabling learners to become the very best version of themselves.
- Supporting children with Special Educational Needs with their learning activities and helping with their social and emotional development.
- Helping with the care and support of the children.
- Contributing to the health and well being of the children.
About You
What experience or qualifications do you need?
Ideally you will have a Teaching Assistant qualification or experience in a similar role, but more importantly you will have:
- A passion for supporting children
- Motivation by seeing the progression and development of others
- High expectations of our children, your colleagues and yourself
- A willingness to go the extra mile
- A sense of humour
- The ability to remain calm in testing situations and come back the next day and do it all again with a smile.
About Kisimul Group
Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award winning education to children, young people and adults with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe and complex learning difficulties, global development delay and associated challenging behaviour.
Kisimul is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Kisimul is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all.
All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check.
Kisimul Group Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.
Due to current UK Government guidelines, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. Sponsorship is restricted to eligible colleagues who are already employed by the organisation. Please be aware that Children's Homes positions are not eligible for sponsorship.
