Overview
Location: Blandford Forum
Contract: Term Time
Role Type: Permanent
Working hours per week: 37.5
Salary: £22,438
Closing Date: Wednesday 8 October 2025
Change a Young Person’s Life – Start your career today with The Cambian Group
Hours ranging from 7am - 4:30pm
The young people we educate and care for come to us with a huge variety of needs and difficulties. Our challenge is to help them build the hope, confidence, knowledge and skills to unlock their potential. From innovative educational experiences to national curriculum programmes, supported by passionate teams of specialists and key workers, we actively enable each young person to achieve their personal best, all in an environment that best suits them.
As a Teaching Assistant and a key part of the dedicated teams we allocate to every child, you’ll have a vital role in helping children learn and develop skills for life. In return, our new and improved training programmes will help you develop your professional skills. And you’ll also learn from some of the most dedicated and inspirational people in our profession and, just like our residents, you will be learning all the time through our ongoing mentoring and support.
Responsibilities
* Support students to focus and make progress in lessons
* Assist the teacher/tutor in the preparation of work
* Support students during school based and community based learning
* Ensure students make progress in formal learning situations as well as with self-help skills, life skills and social understanding
Qualifications
* A Teaching Assistant qualification (desirable but not essential)
* Knowledge of Autism and/or Special Educational Needs
* Well-developed organisation and communication skills
* Ability to work flexibly in relation to tasks undertaken
* Ability to be a good team player
Experience not essential; we will provide the training and support necessary. Fully supported 6 month probationary period.
Safeguarding and Equal Opportunities
Successful candidates will have to meet the person specification in order to be offered this post. Cambian is committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks. Cambian is an equal opportunities employer. Cambian will conduct online searches for shortlisted candidates as part of safeguarding checks. The search will be conducted to assess suitability to work with children and information will be shared only if findings are relevant and of concern.
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