Teaching Assistant - SEND

Ethos Education Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos Education Ltd. is recruiting a SEND Teaching Assistant for a secondary school in Camberwell, South London. The role is full-time and permanent, with a strong focus on supporting pupils with complex needs within the school's SEND provision.

You will deliver targeted one-to-one and small-group interventions, collaborate with colleagues, and contribute to progress tracking and safeguarding. The role offers a clear pathway for professional development in SEND.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree (any discipline).
• Real commitment to enabling pupils with complex needs to reach their potential.
• Strong communication and collaborative working skills.
• Genuine interest in understanding neurodiversity and complex learning.
• Reliability and a solution-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Delivering one-to-one and small-group interventions for pupils with complex needs.
• Co-delivering specialist programmes supporting communication, language and learning.
• Supporting pupils' integration into mainstream classroom settings.
• Building relationships and trust with young people who have educational barriers.
• Contributing to assessment and progress tracking that drives pupil outcomes.
• Supporting behaviour strategies and safeguarding frameworks.
• Working across different settings (classroom, intervention spaces, off-site provision).
• Adapting resources and strategies to meet individual learning profiles.
• Collaborating with external agencies and specialists.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Strong communication

Collaborative working

Commitment to SEND

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About the role

We're recruiting a SEND Teaching Assistant to join a secondary school's SEND team in Camberwell, South London. This is a varied and rewarding role that will shape your career in education whilst making a tangible difference to young people with complex needs.

As a Teaching Assistant specialising in SEND, you'll work at the heart of the school's special needs provision, delivering targeted support across multiple year groups and settings. You'll be part of a dedicated SEND team, working collaboratively to remove barriers to learning and enable young people to succeed.

Your role as a SEND TA will include:

• Delivering one-to-one and small-group interventions for pupils with complex needs
• Co-delivering specialist programmes supporting communication, language and learning
• Supporting pupils' integration into mainstream classroom settings
• Building relationships and trust with young people who've experienced educational barriers
• Contributing to assessment and progress tracking that drives pupil outcomes
• Supporting behaviour strategies and safeguarding frameworks
• Working flexibly across different settings (classroom, intervention spaces, off-site provision)
• Adapting resources and strategies to meet individual learning profiles
• Collaborating with external agencies and specialists
• Attending multi-agency meetings and contributing to planning

The role is genuinely varied: no two days are the same. You might deliver a literacy intervention in the morning, support a pupil's transition to a new class, join a behaviour meeting, work one-to-one with a young person on communication skills, facilitate a social story exercise, or support a complex learner accessing mainstream lessons. You'll see real impact - young people building confidence, developing independence, and accessing learning they previously couldn't access.

About you

You're a graduate ready to launch a meaningful career in SEND education, or you may be a qualified teacher looking to move into SEND. You'll need:

• A bachelor's degree (any discipline)
• Real commitment to enabling pupils with complex needs to reach their potential
• Strong communication and collaborative working skills
• Genuine interest in understanding neurodiversity and complex learning
• Reliability and a solution-focused approach

Your career

This is a stepping stone into SEND specialism. Working within a secondary school SEND team gives you exposure to assessment, intervention design, and multi-agency working. Many TAs progress to SENCO qualifications, specialist support roles, or trained higher-level positions. You'll develop deep expertise in supporting teenagers with profound and complex needs.

What we offer

• Secondary school with a strong SEND provision in South London
• Full-time permanent contract
• Supportive, collaborative team environment
• Clear pathway for career development and further training
• Competitive daily rate for a Teaching Assistant in Inner London