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L3 SEN Teaching Assistant
Location: Quidenham, Norwich, NR16 2NZ
Actual Annual Salary: £24,514 - £25,872 dependant on qualifications and experience
Hourly rate: £13.72 - £14.48 per hour
Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8.30am - 4.30pm, Thursday 8.30am - 5pm and Friday 8.30am - 4pm
Contract: Permanent
Aurora White House School
Aurora White House School, part of the Aurora Group, supports children aged 5–16 with communication, interaction, and learning difficulties including autism, dyslexia, and SEMH needs. We offer small class sizes and a full onsite clinical team.
The Role:
As a Level 3 Teaching Assistant, you’ll support pupils with learning and care across school settings. You’ll help deliver personalised learning, assist with routines and transitions, and promote positive behaviour. Working closely with teachers and therapists, you’ll ensure every child feels safe, supported, and able to reach their full potential.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career whilst you help shape and develop our provision to achieve this.
Key Responsibilities
1. Build warm, supportive relationships to help pupils feel safe and engaged.
2. Promote independence, personal development, and positive behaviour.
3. Support high-quality, differentiated learning across a broad curriculum.
4. Assist the Class Teacher with daily classroom operations.
5. Adapt to changing needs to ensure smooth school functioning.
6. Encourage pupils’ cognitive, emotional, social, and physical growth.
7. Work collaboratively within a multi-professional team.
Duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of the school when required. Please see the attached full job description.
Key Requirements
8. Level 3 TA qualification essential
9. GCSEs in Maths & English (Grade 4+) essential
10. Experience with SEN (ASD, SEMH)
11. Understanding of safeguarding
Due to the rural location of the school, candidates are strongly advised to hold a full UK driving licence and have access to their own vehicle.
What’s on offer?
Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
12. Life assurance
13. Enhanced pension scheme
14. Free lunches when working
15. Free onsite parking
16. Perkbox - offering high street discounts, car lease scheme and bike to work scheme
17. Employee assistance programme
18. Fully funded training and qualifications
19. Family Swim
20. Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more
How to Apply:
You can apply online by completing our online application form.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search
Safeguarding Statement
Aurora White House School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.