Key Role Information

Salary
NJC Grade 3 SCP 5-7 (Outer London) £28,521 FTE - £29,346 FTE
Job type
Fixed Term
Contract type
Fixed Term
Closing
07/11/2025 12:34
Interview
TBC
Contract term
TTO - Term time only
Pay grade
NJC Support Outer London | NJC5 - NJC7
Department
Beckmead Park Academy
Key stage
Not Applicable
Hours per week
36.00
Weeks per year
46.400
Visa sponsorship
No

Your Role

The Beckmead Trust is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people, with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs across various sites. We are seeking to recruit an experienced Special Needs Teaching Assistant to join The Beckmead Trust at our Schools in Croydon. 

  

Beckmead School (SEMH, challenging behaviour)  Monks Orchard Road. BR3 3BZ 

(Alternative Provision – Primary) Monks Orchard Road. BR3 3BZ  

Tharreo House (SEMH, challenging behaviour) Salcott Crescent CR0 0JJ

Bramley Bank School (Alternative Provision – Primary) Sanderstead Road. CR2 0LY 


The successful candidate will already be an excellent teaching assistant with a commitment to fulfilling the needs of pupils experiencing social communication difficulties including ASD, SEMH and other learning needs. The ability to motivate pupils towards high achievement is essential. Excellent teamwork, classroom and communication skills are vital. Applications  are welcomed from new and existing teaching assistants who have an energy and passion  for working with children with complex needs. 


As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work. 



If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Croydon, we would welcome an application from you. 



Beckmead Park Academy

Recruitment Officer

recruitment@beckmeadtrust.org

Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham
Beckenham
BR3 3BZ

Safeguarding Information

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff and volunteers, as well as those who work on the premises, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance to include the ability to participate in Physical Intervention and a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on all shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents or issues that are publicly available online.