Company: The Trafalgar School at Downton

Apply for the Teaching Assistant

Location: Breamore

Job Description:

To provide learning and care support for students with special educational needs (SEN)

To work with the classroom teacher to plan and deliver activities

Support students with routines, transitions and emotional regulation.

To build positive relationships with students
To adapt communication style to respond to students according to their individual needs
To work with the SENDCo and other staff members to ensure effective interventions in
Teaching and Learning, leading to increased student progress
To have a flexible approach to support needs and be able to change ways of working when requested
To support quality first teaching in classrooms with a range of interventions
To contribute to Team Around the Child meetings and Annual Reviews, when requested
To deliver aspects of personal care to identified students, as directed by the SENDCo
To undertake additional duties as directed
To take responsibility for your own professional development and contribute to school wide activities
To take full advantage of the school’s induction programme
To rigorously promote the welfare of young people in all respects and understand the issues surrounding the safeguarding of children and young people
To seek, and then act upon, advice and guidance
To engage in reflective self-analysis of professional practice
To work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (eg. Keeping children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our Safeguarding and Child Protection policies and procedures
To promote and be committed to the school’s aims and objectives
To play an active part in the everyday life of the school.

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Posted: September 27th, 2026