Personal Care and Teaching Assistant

REDHILL ACADEMY TRUST; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 22,094 - 23,923; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous annual leave

Cycle to work Scheme

Health and Wellbeing support

Job summary

Redhill Academy Trust is seeking a Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to support students with SEND within our learning support team.

The role is 32.5 hours per week, term-time only, fixed-term for 1 year, with a start date in September 2026. The post offers a pathway for progression and CPD within a supportive secondary environment, focusing on inclusion and student welfare.

Qualifications

• Experience with students with a wide range of SEND.
• Desire to support welfare and wellbeing of young people.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate greater inclusion and remove barriers for students with identified or moving towards SEN support.

Skills

SEND experience

Job description

Actual salary: £22,094 - £23,923 per annum (FTE: £26,141 - 28,305)

32.5 hours per week - Term Time Only, Fixed Term for 1 Year

Required To Start September 2026We are looking for a suitably qualified and enthusiastic Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to join our established learning support team. Experience in working with students with a wide range of SEND and a desire to work with young people in supporting their welfare and wellbeing is essential.

Redhill Academy Trust Pay Scale, Band 7
Scale points 32 - 36

Actual salary: £22,094 - £23,923 per annum (FTE: £26,141 - 28,305)

32.5 hours per week - Term Time Only, Fixed Term for 1 Year

Required To Start September 2026We are looking for a suitably qualified and enthusiastic Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to join our established learning support team. Experience in working with students with a wide range of SEND and a desire to work with young people in supporting their welfare and wellbeing is essential.

The Learning Support department at Colonel Frank Seely Academy is managed by the SENDCo with support from a team of Teaching Assistants who are supportive, caring and passionate. We are looking to appoint a Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to further enrich the team. We are looking for someone who is kind, dedicated and hard working from any educational background and any key stage that wishes to progress to a secondary environment within SEND. There is a pathway for progression within this role and CPD to support within it. The role is primarily to facilitate greater inclusion and remove barriers for students with identified or moving towards being identified as requiring SEN support.

Benefits

• Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with service, plus statutory holidays
• The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school
• Recognised continuous local government service for annual leave entitlement, Occupational Maternity/ Paternity pay
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits platform

For further details regarding this post please contact Nic Musgrove, Operations Manager on the Academy number.

If you have any questions or queries regarding the application process please contact the HR Team.

As Redhill Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children practices, any appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS and Child barred list checks, candidate online search and successful references.