Teaching Assistant

About the role: 🌟 We're Hiring: Teaching Assistant 🌟 📍 Hailsham, East Sussex 💷 Salary from £19,679 actual per annum 🕒 32.5 hours per week | Term Time Only 📅 Closing Date: 30 October 2026 Do you have the passion, patience and dedication to help young people overcome barriers to learning and achieve their potential? We are looking for a committed Teaching Assistant to join our Alternative Provision team in Hailsham, supporting students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and additional learning needs. You'll play a vital role in helping young people engage in education, develop confidence and achieve positive outcomes.  What you'll be doing: ✅ Supporting learning in the classroom and through targeted interventions ✅ Helping students overcome barriers to education and achievement ✅ Building positive relationships based on trust, consistency and high expectations ✅ Supporting emotional regulation and positive behaviour ✅ Working closely with teachers, families and external professionals ✅ Promoting attendance, wellbeing and personal development We're looking for someone who: ✔ Has experience working with children or young people ✔ Is resilient, patient and emotionally intelligent ✔ Can build strong relationships with vulnerable learners ✔ Understands the importance of safeguarding and inclusion ✔ Is passionate about transforming lives through education Why Join Us? ⭐ Be part of a supportive and dedicated team ⭐ Access ongoing professional development and training ⭐ Make a real difference to young people's futures ⭐ Work in a rewarding and dynamic educational environment Every young person deserves the opportunity to succeed. Help us make that happen. 📍 Hailsham, East Sussex 📅 Closing Date: 30 October 2026 📧 Apply today and start making a difference. About The Company About Us From 1 September 2025, we will be delivering Alternative Provision across East Sussex - supporting children who have been excluded from school or who may be at risk of exclusion. This follows a decision by the Department for Education last year, to transfer the provision (currently named College Central, part of Sabden Multi Academy Trust) to London South East Academies Trust.   About the Trust London South East Academies Trust is a growing and ambitious Multi-Academy Trust, currently comprising mainstream, special and alternative provision academies, alongside an outreach service and a music hub. Our schools are located across Bromley, Bexley, Sussex, Lambeth and Surrey, serving a wide range of communities and educational contexts. Across the Trust, our schools share a strong commitment to raising attainment, encouraging aspiration and supporting social mobility for every pupil, throughout their educational journey and beyond. We take a holistic but personalised approach to education, recognising that children thrive when their individual strengths, needs and circumstances are properly understood and supported. This enables pupils to flourish and achieve their full potential, whatever their starting point. We believe that great schools are built by great people. As a Trust, we invest in our staff through strong professional development and leadership opportunities, clear expectations and supportive structures. We actively encourage collaboration and the sharing of best practice across schools, supported by high-quality, cost-effective central services that allow leaders and teachers to focus on what matters most: improving outcomes for pupils. London South East Academies Trust sits within the Elevare Civic Education Group, which also includes a multi-campus further and higher education college, London South East Colleges and a charitable foundation, Elevare Education Foundation. This unique structure provides meaningful progression pathways for pupils and families, as well as broad development and career opportunities for staff across the wider Group. Our teams are united by a shared belief in the power of education to change lives. By continuing to grow our Trust and welcoming new expertise and perspectives, we aim to strengthen our schools further and extend the positive impact we have on our communities.

Please note that if a suitable applicant is identified, we may close the advert before the published closing date. If you have any specific queries about the role, please contact us at lseathr@lsec.ac.uk. As the Trust supports children and vulnerable adults, all roles are exempt from Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and, where relevant, a Children's and/or Adult's Barred List check. Any offer of employment may be withdrawn if these checks are unsatisfactory. Self-disclosure is required as part of the recruitment process, and failure to make a full disclosure or to provide sight of a DBS certificate is likely to result in withdrawal of an offer. The Trust's DBS policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders is available on request. All appointments are also subject to verification of the right to work in the UK, in line with Home Office requirements. Original documentation will be required prior to commencement of employment.