Bucks Pay Range 1-2 ISN 6-15 £23,297-£26,961 Pro Rata (Do E) Actual Salary £3,541 - £4,098 Per Annum

Full Time, Fixed Term

1st September 2025

28 November 2024

Role: Wellbeing Assistant (Psychology University Placement) and School Support Assistant
Contract: 1st September 2025 – 31st August 2026 (39 Weeks Term Time Only)
Hours: 4 Days Per Week 8:30am-4:30pm in Placement & 1 Day Per Week 8:30am-4:00pm as SSA
SSA Salary: Bucks Pay Range 1-2 ISN 6-15 £23,297-£26,961 Pro Rata (Do E) Actual Salary £3,541 - £4,098 Per Annum
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Alfriston School is an outstanding Special School with Academy status for girls aged 11-19 with Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD). We are committed to ensure that all our pupils become the best that they can be, and they can enjoy and achieve in all that they do. Our staff have a strong sense of commitment and use their excellent subject knowledge to provide interesting and creative lessons in which all pupils learn well. They have high expectations of their pupils and develop good supportive relationships and a positive learning atmosphere where the girls can thrive.
Our aim is to provide pupils not just with a body of knowledge but with the skills required for a lifetime of learning, to prepare pupils for integration into the wider community, able to enjoy and participate in life as contributing adults. Alfriston provides a holistic environment that recognises the need of the individual in order to secure the best outcomes for adulthood. Our ethos is routed in Learning for Living covering key areas of: Engagement, Organisation, Independence, Risk Taking, Resilience and Social Interaction.
The position of the Psychology Student at Alfriston School provides an opportunity to work within the Wellbeing & Therapies Faculty, to support the social, emotional, mental health and therapeutic needs of our pupils. You will gain insight into therapeutic fields such as Occupational, Speech and Language Therapy, Counselling and CBT practice. In addition, opportunities to observe multiagency working will be available during the year, such as liaison with CAMHS, Family Support Service and other clinical services. The workload will include research/project work, supervised 1:1 low-level therapeutic intervention and general day-to-day admin for the wider faculty.

Alfriston is an outstanding Special School with Academy status for girls aged 11-19 with moderate learning difficulties and speech and language and communication difficulties based in Beaconsfield. We currently have 156 girls on roll, pupils attend from all over Buckinghamshire and some neighbouring counties. We are also a residential school and have provision for 20 pupils to board with us on a weekly basis. All our pupils have an Education Health Care Plan and are taught in small groups and with additional support.
Our staff are specialist subject teachers and are experienced in working with a range of special needs and abilities. We consider the staff team as our most valuable resource. Training and development is a high priority in the school. There is also personal support given to staff to manage the diverse and challenging work needed to support pupils with significant special needs. At present there are 70 staff employed at the school working in the teaching, support, residential and administrative teams. We are proud of the excellent standard of education provided at Alfriston.