Please be advised that this position does not offer UK VISA SPONSORSHIP.
This role is due to commence at the beginning of the academic year in September 2025.
Vacancy Job Title; Lead Teaching Assistant
Vacancy Location; The Brinkburn Centre in South Shields. Your Admin / Office time will be based from our Head Office on the Team Valley in Gateshead.
Salary / Rate of Pay; £14.41 per hour = £22,482.00 (FTE = £27,000.00)
Contract type; Full Time, Term Time only (39 weeks of the year)
Number of hours available in total; 40 hours, 8am to 4pm, term time only. This is built up of a combination of session delivery and, admin hours at out Office in Team Valley Gateshead / Hybrid.
What are we looking for;
This is a unique opportunity for someone seeking a change of pace from the traditional classroom or busy SEN setting. Unlike typical TA roles supporting multiple students, this position focuses on one-to-one tutoring with a young boy, allowing for a more personalised, consistent, and impactful approach to learning.
This role is ideal for an experienced Teaching Assistant looking to step into a more focused, relationship-based position, or for a recent graduate with a passion for making a difference outside of mainstream education. It offers a chance to build a meaningful connection and support learning in a non-traditional, highly rewarding environment.
Job Role: As a Lead Teaching Assistant, you will play a key role in providing effective classroom support, mentoring other Teaching Assistants, and contributing to the development of a positive and inclusive learning environment. The role requires a proactive approach to support the student, ensuring that he achieves his potential.
Essential Criteria;
- Driver with access to your own vehicle
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification or equivalent
- Proven experience as a teaching assistant
- Strong understanding of safeguarding policies and practices
- Ability to adapt and differentiate support for pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable Criteria;
- Additional qualifications or training in SEN support
- Knowledge of effective behaviour management strategies
- Proficiency in performing personal care tasks, ensuring the well-being and comfort of the individual under your care
- A naturally positive attitude that fosters a supportive and uplifting environment for those you work with
- Proven ability to inspire and motivate the individual you support, empowering them to pursue their goals and aspirations with determination and enthusiasm
Support Provision
Your working hours will be a combination of delivering support to the student we support at their learning location in South Shields, in conjunction with some hybrid or office based working from our Head Office location in Gateshead.
- To deliver high quality, safe and person-centred support.
- To be part of a contingency plan covering absences and holiday cover on the package you manage.
- To safeguard the person, we support at all times and always act in their best interests.
- To develop a rapport and professional supportive relationship with the person we support and their next of kin.
- To identify achievable support and rehabilitation goals with the person we support.
- Manage and lead Support Workers to follow and implement care plans.
- To agree a set rota of support sessions with Commissioners, People we support and Support Workers, ensuring that funded support hours are delivered and not exceeded.
- To ensure the Case Manager, is kept up to date on support delivery, achievements, concerns or issues within the support package.
Line Management
- To act as line manager to the Teaching Assistants / Support Workers
- To complete regular supervisions and observations of the staff being line managed.
- To provide support, guidance and training to staff being line managed, as required.
- To act as a role model and lead by example.
- To communicate clearly and effectively with staff teams at all times.
- To work alongside our Recruitment team to recruit based on individual needs and preferences. To brief and train new team members, in individuals’ specific needs.
This position is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
What can KEYFORT offer you: As well as personal satisfaction in knowing you have been able to make a positive difference to the person’s life. We also offer the following to our support workers;
- A contract that works for you; permanent 40 hours per week
- Paid Annual Leave ;You will still receive 4.3 weeks of annual leave, this is added into the advertised salary.
- Training, Mentoring and Shadowing programmes; inhouse with our own RGN, Occupational Therapist and trained Psychologists
- Double Pay for bank holiday working
- Paid Enhanced DBS check
- Colleague Referral Scheme - £200 incentive bonus (T&C’s apply)
- FlexEarn; which is a simple and safe way of accessing the wages you’ve already earned
- Blue Light discount card; giving you BIG discounts at major retailers
- Employee of the month scheme; winners receive a monetary voucher
- Recognition scheme with monetary rewards
- Mileage paid at 0.45pm per mile on any excursions or community visits as part of your role
KEYFORT Group Ltd are committed to Safeguarding and protecting Adults and Children.
We welcome applications from all areas of the community and welcome the opportunity to find out more about what you could bring to KEYFORT.
If you do not receive a communication from KEYFORT within 14 days, following your application submission, then on this occasion you have not been successful in our search requirements for this particular role.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £14.41 per hour
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee mentoring programme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- You must possess a Teaching Assistant qualification; Levell 3 or above, can you confirm you have this?
Licence/Certification:
- drivers licence (required)
Work Location: In person