Teaching Assistant

at Compass Community School Vicarage Park, Stottesdon, United Kingdom

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Salary

£26,395 a year

Closing date

14 December 2026

Start

Not given in the advert

Type of post

Teaching support
A support post, not a teaching post.

Contract

Permanent - Term Time Only

First seen

16 June 2026, on a public job listing

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The advert

About The Role

Are you a Life Changer? Do you want to lean in and transform the life of a child?

Compass Community puts children first through our therapeutic, innovative approach. Integrity, Courage and Care shape how we work. We listen deeply, challenge each other and fixing what needs fixing, together.

This is the work. And we’d like you to be part of it.

Who we are

Our children come from a wide range of backgrounds, but all have Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs (SEMH). Many will also have other Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) such as Autism, ADHD, and communication difficulties.

The work we do is both varied and challenging and, as a trauma and attachment informed organisation, all staff are provided with extensive therapeutic training and support.

Our closely triangulated approach places the child at the centre of decision making, ensuring that education and therapy professionals, parents/carers, local authority teams and, most importantly, our students can work together to secure outstanding outcomes for all.

The Role

Teaching Assistants at our school know that no two days are the same and that no two children are the same either. Our children require very special adults who can support children with complex and challenging behaviours.

TAs in our schools will understand that our children require lots of attention, just the right sort of communication, consistency and flexibility in equal measure, and a non-judgemental approach. They need to be resilient, persistent and solution focussed to meet the needs of our pupils and to do so they need to wear a lot of hats and be prepared to change them at a moment’s notice!

Our Teaching Assistants will

Support teaching and learning

Work with children 1:1 or delivering sessions with small groups of students

Manage classroom resources

Take children on educational trips and visits

Have their lunch with children who struggle socially

Have a good basic understanding or English and Maths

Keep children safe when they are experiencing heightened behaviours with strong behaviour management skills and excellent communication

Create, play and teach games to pupils to develop their social skills or further learning

Create amazing displays which support teaching and create an exceptional learning environment

Celebrate success

Participate in therapeutic training sessions or reflecting on difficult periods

Our TAs are highly valued members of our team. We want our TAs to be part of the decision making that drives our school, provides outcomes for children and advocates for every child. We welcome their input in developing both the academic curriculum and the opportunities in our extra-curricular offer – bringing their own interests and passions to the table.

Benefits and Rewards

The opportunity to develop and grow your career within Compass Community

Competitive salary

Extensive training and professional qualification opportunities

Small class sizes with specialist TA support

The chance to be part of an expanding, national organisation that recognises skill, effort and potential and grows its own leadership teams

Flexible pension

Regular therapeutic and supportive supervision

Employee benefit service with access to wellbeing services, salary sacrifice schemes

The Values Awards

At Compass, our strength comes from the values we live by every day – Integrity, Care and Courage. These aren’t just words that we put on our website or on a poster; they’re visible in the actions you take to support children, families and each other, often in ways that go unseen.

That’s why we are launching the

Compass Values Awards,

to spotlight actions that embody Integrity, Care or Courage across all parts of our community.

Read on to learn about how it works, what a nomination in each category looks like, and which teams fall within each service.

We regularly review applications and reserve the right to close an advert early if we identify suitable candidates.

About Compass Community School Vicarage Park

Type

Independent school

Pupils

10 (school census, 2025/26)

Ofsted

Requires improvement, inspected 30 September 2025

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