About this role
1:1 Teaching Assistant (SEN)
19.5 hours per week Term time only
8.40-15.40
1 September 2026
Kent College is a school that ensures every student succeeds above and beyond their potential, as shown by our outstanding value-added results which place us as one of the top schools in the country. Academically, creatively, in Music, Drama and Sport, we nurture, support and encourage our students to thrive. Our flexible and personalised offer allows every student to follow their own path in life and excel. Nurturing and care is at the heart of what we do. We are a community of unique individuals, each with our own characters, personalities and strengths, and brought together by our Methodist ethos of doing all the good you can.
Our ethos of kindness, community and inclusive nurturing, alongside excellent teaching and learning, a flexible curriculum and fantastic facilities are the key to success for our students.
Individual excellence is at the heart of the Kent College community.
We value:
Achievement,
Support for all,
Purposeful citizenship,
Individuality,
Reliability, resilience, respect, and
Enquiring and creative minds.
We have a rare and exciting opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced 1:1 Teaching Assistant to join our highly collaborative and supportive SEN team. As a member of the SEN Team, the 1:1 teaching assistant will work, as directed by the SENCO, to fulfil the provision outlined in an EHCP, specific details of provision to be discussed at interview. The successful candidate will be providing 1:1 support for a Year 2 pupil with emotional and practical interventions, to cover needs in all areas of the pupil’s daily school experience, working collaboratively with teachers and teaching assistants.
The 1:1 Teaching Assistant will be able to encourage the pupil to become an independent learner, whilst providing appropriate support for the pupil with special educational needs. This role would suit an experienced teaching as