The Castle School - Theale
West Berkshire
£21,685 - £23,102 per year
Salary:
West Berkshire Grade D plus SEN £1,304
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 October 2025
Apply by:
20 September 2025
Job overview
We are a growing SEN school and are seeking additional Teaching Assistants to start with us to help create exceptional learning environments. You will help to support the delivery of an exciting curriculum in a truly therapeutic setting.
This is a pivotal moment of expansion with two new classes in September and you will help shape the futures of our students. This is a fantastic and unique opportunity for someone with SEMH/ASD experience, a passion for person centred learning and therapeutic approaches, to be involved our successful school.
You will work closely with the class teacher and HLTA to support the needs of pupils as individuals or in small groups throughout the day.
You will have excellent people skills and a warm and caring personality. The ability to communicate effectively with pupils, parents and other staff is important. Opportunities for training are available and all staff are encouraged to take up these opportunities.
This role is 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only and based in our Theale site.
For the successful candidate, we can offer:
* The opportunity to work with highly experienced, devoted colleagues and students who value the experiences we provide, within a dynamic, creative, therapeutic environment
* A bespoke package of support and CPD to enable you to grow and develop into who you are aspiring to be
* A caring, positive and inclusive environment
* Well trained, professional and supportive governors
* Freedom to innovate and an active role in contributing to the shared vision of the school
Closing Date: 1st June 2025
Interviews: 26 September 2025
We reserve the right to hold interviews before the closing date if we receive applications from people who match the person specification criteria, so we encourage you to apply early.
The Castle School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment and is in line with guidance in KCSIE. All shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a criminal records self-disclosure form. Successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Baring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant checks including online searches to help to identify any incidents and/or issues which may be relevant to your suitability for the role, which the school may want to explore further with you.
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About The Castle School - Theale
The Castle School - Theale
Church Street, Theale
Berkshire
RG7 5BZ
United Kingdom
About the school
The Castle School caters for children with a variety of complex learning difficulties from the ages of 4 to 19 offering a range of provision for different ages, stages and needs. In September 2022 we opened a new specialist provision based at Theale for students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties and Autism aged 11 to 16.
Castle @Theale is a genuinely bespoke, therapeutic environment within which young people are celebrated for who they are and the skills that they have. All students are thoroughly and expertly supported by a wide team of highly skilled professionals to overcome the challenges they face and to enable them to achieve to their very fullest potential.
Our Vision
To create a happy, secure and stimulating learning environment which will encourage and challenge our learners to develop their skills and knowledge as far as they can and provide the best education possible.
The Castle @ Theale as part of The Castle School exists to provide a caring, nurturing and outstanding educational community for the learners of West Berkshire and beyond. Our key purpose is to educate, motivate, inspire and celebrate all children with additional needs and to provide a quality educational experience which encourages equality for all; to develop individual self-worth, esteem and potential in all learners and uphold their rights.
Students at The Castle @ Theale will experience a curriculum planned to meet individual needs. A daily program is planned by the class team that focuses around teaching and learning of a differentiated national curriculum (that is set at an appropriate stage for each student) and personalized EHCP outcomes.
Progress is measured in all areas, including individual wow moments and progress in terms of EHCP outcomes, Skills Builder Frameworks and academic elements of learning and development.
Communication is central to all of our development and oracy is a vital element of all curriculum pathways. Within the planning of all learning and development are opportunities to grow and harness oracy skills. We know that the impact on life beyond school years can be impacted upon greatly by development of being able to communicate to others appropriately and effectively in a wide range of experiences.
We understand that our students need a variety of different environments in order to thrive, learn and develop. Outdoor learning is a very important aspect of our learning experience
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