Waverley School 

Teaching Assistant

 Contract                              Fixed contract

 Hours                                  32 hours and 30 minutes, 39 weeks per annum

 Times                                  8.45am - 3.45pm

* 2 weekly meeting starting at 8.40am, 1 weekly meeting starting 8.30am

 Days                                   Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

 Actual salary range:            £22,012 -  £22,327 pa inc (Scale 3)

Waverley School is a large, Local Authority maintained day school in Enfield, North London, rated ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED in July 2024. Our pupils are aged 3-19 with severe complex needs.  We currently have 165 FTE pupils on roll across three sites. The largest site is Waverley School and the other two sites are Waverley@Bell Lane and Waverley@Honilands.

We have an exciting new opportunity here at Waverley. We wish to recruit a teaching assistant to work with pupils with severe and profound learning difficulties. Would you be interested in supporting children and young people to reach their potential? Could you help teach them to be as independent as possible? Are you calm under pressure? Do you like to work with others in a small team? If the answer is yes, please apply.  Proven skills and abilities of working with children is desirable and within similar environments would be an advantage. There is a possibility for contracts to become permanent.

Training is given to all staff in Child Protection, Manual Handling, communication strategies and  other training relevant to the post.

All candidates will be shortlisted based on an application form scored against the essential and desirable criteria as stated in the person specification. Candidates who only submit a CV will not be short-listed. Candidates should assume they have not been shortlisted if they have not heard within 4 weeks of the closing date.  

Further information about Waverley School can be found at https://www.waverley-school.com/

For the Job Description/Person Specification, please click here.

To apply, please click on the ‘Apply now’ button below.

Closing date Tuesday 14th January 2024

Interviews Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Contract start date  Monday 24th February 2025

Contract end date 31st August 2025

All schools in Enfield are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young and anyone applying to work at Waverley is expected to share this commitment.

Please note CVs are not accepted.