Teaching assistant: send and pastoral specialist senior school

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and empathetic Level 3 (or similar skills/experience) Teaching Assistant. The main responsibility of the role is 1-1 support in class for our EHCP students in Key Stage 3 and 4 with a range of additional needs including Autism, ADHD, Anxiety, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia and Sensory Processing needs. In addition, the role would involve supporting students across the school with pastoral matters.

Birkenhead School, awarded the Sunday Times Independent Secondary School of the Year in the North West for 2025, was founded in 1860. It is an HMC independent day school providing education for boys and girls drawn from the whole of the Wirral, Liverpool and as far afield as Chester and North Wales.Situated in the leafy suburb of Oxton, the School enjoys excellent facilities. The main campus has a village green atmosphere, with classrooms and laboratories looking out over the cricket square. Recent capital developments have included a new landscaped playground and outdoor classroom area.

Birkenhead School prides itself on being a family school. Becoming fully co-educational in 2008 reinforced this, and at present, 217 families have more than one child in the School and 27 of those have three or four children here.