SEMH Teaching Assistant

Philosophy Education; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A respected specialist school in North London seeks an experienced SEMH Teaching Assistant for a full-time role starting in September 2025. The position involves supporting pupils with various emotional and mental health needs in both classroom and ward settings. This ongoing role until July 2026 offers valuable experience for your career.

Qualifications

• Must have KS3 and KS5 experience.
• Experience supporting students with SEMH needs required.

Responsibilities

• Work with pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
• Provide support within classrooms and potentially hospital wards.

Skills

Support for pupils with SEMH needs

Experience with KS3 and KS5

Education

Good academic background

Job description

• SEMH Teaching Assistant
• ASAP / September
• Secondary School
• North London
• Start date: ASAP / September 2025
• Contract: Ongoing to July 2026

A highly-respected specialist school, based within a hospital in North London, are looking for an experienced SEMH Teaching Assistant to join their staff in September on a full-time basis.

The Role

In this role you will be based within the school’s classrooms however, you will also occasionally get the opportunity to go onto the ward if this is something you are interested in. This is an SEMH role so the pupils you will be working with will have social, emotional and mental health needs for example anxiety, eating disorders, behavioural issues, depression etc. You would never be left alone with the pupils and will always have support from the Teacher as well as other members of staff within the classroom.

The school are looking for an SEMH Teaching Assistant with KS3 and KS5 experience and someone with a good academic background who can support very able pupils with SEMH.

This role is offered on a full-time contract basis from September 2025 to July 2026. The hours of the role are 9:30am - 4:30am Monday - Friday.

If you are an experienced SEMH Teaching Assistant looking for an exciting new opportunity to develop your skills then this would be a fantastic opportunity and would look great on your CV!

We have a policy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Philosophy Education is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.