TEACHING ASSISTANT

Date: 23 May 2025
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Teaching Assistant
• Job Location: Hospital Educ Serv Outpatient Team Base
• Salary: £29,093 - £31,586 per annum (pro rata)
• Hours per Week: 36.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 08/06/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 10859
• This post is not open to job share

ABOUT US

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the hospital education team. You can be confident of joining a highly professional, passionate, supportive and very experienced team of teachers, pastoral and administrative staff, working tirelessly to ensure the best outcomes can be achieved for every individual regardless of the health barriers they may be facing.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for someone who:

• Can work well with others and develop excellent relationships with students, immediate staff, other professionals, and parents
• Thrives on making a difference to every young person they work with
• Can use own initiative to meet the needs of the students.
• Is confident in supporting learners with additional communication needs
• Has a kind and compassionate nature, and excellent communication skills
• Understands the needs, outcomes and provision outlined in students’ EHCP / My Plans and GHES Support Plans and can adapt classroom support accordingly
• Has experience of Thrive and other approaches to engage students and overcome barriers to learning
• Has experience of working with vulnerable/ SEN students.

OTHER ESSENTIALS

GHES is a service within Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) so employment with us is through them.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for this role – we envisage this would initially be ½ a day per week working from home or time away from the classroom for planning and administration.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.

To find out more about GHES visit our website www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/ghes
Further details and the job description can be found in the attached documents.
We would encourage you to speak to Beth Warren, Head of Service, or Emma Stevenson, Classroom Lead, for an informal conversation, prior to making an application - please contact us on 01242 532363 or email ghes@gloucestershire.gov.uk. We will be available for this during the week of Monday 2nd - Friday 6th June.
GHES is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to satisfactory references, relevant qualifications, an enhanced DBS check and the Right to work in the UK check. Shortlisted candidates will have be subject to an online profile search.

Gloucestershire Hospital Education Service is looking to appoint a caring, experienced and highly motivated HLTA to join the team from September 2025.
The role will be predominantly classroom based in Cheltenham, working with small groups of students or individuals throughout the day. This may be supporting in lessons alongside our teaching staff, working on intervention/thrive strategies with individuals, working alongside our classroom lead to create safer learning plans or supporting our students when they go off-site for trips and visits.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced HLTA looking to apply their skills and experience in a smaller setting where the vast majority of students coming in have poor mental health, school based anxieties to overcome, have become isolated due to illness, or have experienced trauma.
The role is working Monday to Friday, approx. 8:00am to 4:00pm for 39 weeks per annum, 36 hours per week.