Teaching Assistant - SEND

Ethos Education Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos Education Ltd seeks a SEND Teaching Assistant to join a secondary school's SEND team in Camberwell, South London. The role involves delivering targeted support across year groups, working with a dedicated SEND team to remove barriers to learning and enable pupils with complex needs to succeed.

You will help deliver literacy and other interventions, support pupils in mainstream settings, and contribute to assessment and safeguarding practices.

Qualifications

• Graduate or qualified teacher seeking SEND specialism.
• Commitment to enabling pupils with complex needs.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Interest in neurodiversity and learning differences.

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.
• Contributing to assessment and progress tracking that drives pupil outcomes.
• Supporting safeguarding frameworks and behaviour strategies.
• Working across settings (classroom, intervention spaces, off-site provision).
• Collaborating with external agencies and participating in multi-agency planning.

Skills

Strong communication

Collaboration

Neurodiversity awareness

Reliability

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