Occupying a 33 acre site on the edge of Henley-on-Thames, we are a co-educational academy with approximately 900 pupils aged 11-16 on roll.

Academic standards at Gillotts are both high and improving. In 2025, 76% of students achieved the benchmark of grade 5 or above in both English and maths, against a national average of 45%.   

We achieved GCSE progress results in the top 10% of all schools in 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and were the top performing state secondary school in Oxfordshire in 2025.  

If you enjoy working with children and feel you have the skills to communicate effectively and support and encourage young people with special educational needs and disabilities, this could be the job for you.

Working with students in lessons, you will become part of our dedicated team committed to supporting students’ learning in our happy and successful school. 

Full time hours are Monday - Thursday 8.30am - 3.30pm, Friday 8.30 - 2.30pm.

No experience necessary as full training will be given, however, experience of working with young people with special educational needs and disabilities would be an advantage.  Flexibility, resilience, and the ability to relate to young people in a positive way is essential.

Gillotts aims to maximise achievement through effective and inspiring teaching and support to students, so if you share these values and would like to join this supportive and high-achieving school, we’d like to hear from you.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive  continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children. 

The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance. 

If you would like to have a confidential conversation about the role, prior to application, then please email Clair Collyer, SENDCo at ccollyer@gillotts.org, or telephone 01491 574315.

The River Learning Trust and Gillotts School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.   The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered