SEND Teaching Assistant

Job Overview

An opportunity has arisen whereby we are looking to appoint a dedicated and professional SEND Teaching Assistant to start as soon as possible. You will work as part of the Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) team to support those children with specific needs. You will need to be able to demonstrate an excellent level of understanding of children will specific needs (both mental and physical) and how they can be best supported to ensure they thrive in mainstream education.

You will be working within a busy and dynamic teaching environment and will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life‑long love of learning by being a positive and supportive role model.

• Provide dedicated 1:1 support for children with complex and specific needs, including physical care and educational support.
• Administer physiotherapy, personal hygiene, toileting, feeding, drinking and, where required, the administration of medicines or injections.
• Safely move children from their wheelchair and handle them with care according to training.
• Assist teaching staff in preparing the learning environment, liaising with parents, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks.
• Use digital technologies and software to support the delivery of different intervention programmes.
• Support individual children to access the curriculum, adapt the curriculum with the SENDCo, teach reading, participate in PE, games sessions, school trips, residentials and provide mentoring and tutoring.
• Lead playtime activities and support the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time.

Good experience of working with children and relevant qualifications are required.

Salary of £23,866 FTE | Actual Salary of £16,922 (40 weeks Hours are 9am – 3:30pm, Monday – Friday, 40 weeks per year (Term time + 10 days).

• Heavily discounted childcare
• Health and cycle‑to‑work schemes
• Generous pension scheme
• Subsided meals and from our in‑house chefs
• Free tea and coffee
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

Visits to the schools are welcome by prior arrangement. We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process. Interviews may happen as we receive suitable applications.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for all our posts. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please note online searches may be done as part of pre‑recruitment checks.