SEN - Sen Teaching Assistant

Long-term role with the potential to go permanent

Are you resilient, patient, and passionate about supporting young people with additional needs? We are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join a specialist SEMH (Social, Emotional & Mental Health) school located in Bottesford.

This unique setting offers a therapeutic, nature-based environment designed to help students with significant emotional and behavioural needs thrive. The school provides a calm, nurturing atmosphere-with beautiful outdoor spaces and even resident donkeys that form part of the pupils' daily routines and therapeutic activities.

About the Role

• Full-time Teaching Assistant position
• Working in a 2:1 support arrangement with a pupil who requires high consistency and emotional regulation
• Supporting children with:
  • Emotional and developmental needs
  • Complex attachment histories
  • Past trauma
  • High-level behavioural challenges
• Helping pupils build resilience, emotional regulation, and trust
• Implementing DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) and attachment-informed approaches (training provided)

What the School Offers

• A supportive, experienced team
• Therapeutic, outdoor-focused learning environment
• Opportunity to transition into a permanent role for the right person
• Ongoing training in trauma-informed and attachment-based practice
• A meaningful role where every day truly counts

What We're Looking For

• Experience with challenging behaviour or a strong willingness to learn
• Patience, consistency, and emotional resilience
• Someone calm under pressure with a nurturing approach
• Commitment to long-term, stable support
• Ability to build safe, trusting relationships with young people

Location

Bottesford - easily accessible from Grantham, Newark, Nottingham, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire borders.

If this sounds like the perfect next step for you, apply now or get in touch for more information.