Supervisory Assistant - Special Needs

Newcastle City Council; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Sir Charles Parsons School in Newcastle upon Tyne invites applications for Supervisory Assistants to join our team supporting students with significant learning needs.

Successful applicants will work as part of a dedicated staff group, providing personal care and support and helping to implement teaching and care plans. Training will be provided; hours negotiable, typically over lunchtime, with safeguarding at the core of our ethos.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and keen to support and develop new initiatives.
• Able to work effectively as a member of a team with educational and other professionals.
• Committed to improving provision through rigorous professional self-review and development.
• Resilient and able to focus on finding solutions in a school setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and support to students with feeding plans throughout the school day.
• Working hours will be negotiable but will usually involve working over lunchtime.
• Support safeguarding and health and wellbeing of students and staff as part of the school team.
• All posts are subject to enhanced disclosure and barring service checks.

Skills

Enthusiastic

Team player

Professional development

Resilient

Job description

Sir Charles Parsons School
Westbourne Avenue
Walker
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 4ED

Sir Charles Parsons School is a secondary school (11 - 19) catering for students who experience significant and profound learning difficulties. This includes students whose behaviors may at times challenge those supporting them. The school was judged by Ofsted to be an ‘outstanding school’ after its last five inspections in October 2006, June 2010, March 2015, January 2019 and July 2024.

Due to the school’s continued growth and increasing student numbers we are looking to appoint a number of Supervisory Assistants to join our team.

Candidates should be:

• enthusiastic and keen to support and develop new initiatives.
• able to work effectively as a member of a team with educational and other professionals, both from within and outside the school;
• committed to improving the provision offered to our students through rigorous professional self-review and development.
• resilient and able to focus on finding solutions to the issues and problems experienced in any school.

Successful applicants will join a school:

• with a friendly, supportive team ethos.
• that provides excellent professional development opportunities.
• which is dynamic, forward looking and constantly challenging itself to further improve the quality of its provision.

All necessary training to enable the successful candidates to fulfil the responsibilities of their posts will be provided.

Supervisory Assistants– Special Needs provide personal care and support to students with feeding plans throughout the school day. The post is graded at N3 with a pro-rata annual salary. Working hours will be negotiable but will usually involve working over lunchtime.

The school is strongly committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. All posts are subject to enhanced disclosure and barring service checks. We expect all adults to share our commitment to safeguarding and the health and wellbeing of our students and staff.

As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.

Closing Date: Friday 9th October 2026 at 12 (noon)

Interviews will be week commencing 19th Ocotber 2026.