Teaching Assistant - Level 1

The Beckmead Trust is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people, with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs across various sites. We are seeking to recruit an experienced Special Needs Teaching Assistant to join The Beckmead Trust at our Schools in Croydon. 

Beckmead School (SEMH, challenging behaviour)  Monks Orchard Road. BR3 3BZ 

(Alternative Provision – Primary) Monks Orchard Road. BR3 3BZ  

Tharreo House (SEMH, challenging behaviour) Salcott Crescent CR0 0JJ

Bramley Bank School (Alternative Provision – Primary) Sanderstead Road. CR2 0LY 

The successful candidate will already be an excellent teaching assistant with a commitment to fulfilling the needs of pupils experiencing social communication difficulties including ASD, SEMH and other learning needs. The ability to motivate pupils towards high achievement is essential. Excellent teamwork, classroom and communication skills are vital. Applications  are welcomed from new and existing teaching assistants who have an energy and passion  for working with children with complex needs. 

As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work. 



If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Croydon, we would welcome an application from you.