13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    20 June 2025 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    6 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time: 32.5 hours a week over Monday - Friday (6.5 hours a day)

Contract type

Fixed term - 1 year

Pay scale

Grade 3 Point 4

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job Purpose

We are seeking a compassionate, patient, and dedicated 1 to 1 SEN Teaching Assistant to work with a child in our primary school who has a visual impairment and additional special educational needs (SEND). This role is vital in supporting the child’s access to learning, development, and participation in all aspects of school life.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide tailored one-to-one support throughout the school day, ensuring the child’s individual needs are met in both academic and social settings.

  • Support access to the curriculum by adapting resources and using specialist equipment or technology as needed (e.g., Braille, large print materials, tactile resources).

  • Work closely with the class teacher, SENCo, and external specialists (e.g., QTVI – Qualified Teacher of the Visually Impaired) to implement and monitor personalised support strategies.

  • Promote independence, confidence, and inclusion both in the classroom and during unstructured times such as playtime and lunchtime.

  • Assist with mobility and orientation around the school environment, ensuring the child’s safety at all times.

  • Monitor and record progress against targets set in the child’s Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

  • Build a trusting relationship with the child to foster emotional well-being and a positive attitude toward learning.

  • Establish good working relationships with the parents, ensuring they are informed of the pupil’s learning achievements and areas of development

  • Support with personal care needs if required.

  • Maintain confidentiality and safeguard the child’s welfare in line with school policies and procedures

  • Act as general TA should the pupil not be in school

  • Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required

  • Assist with supervision of pupil out of lesson times, including playtimes and lunch time

  • Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required

What the school offers its staff

Friendly working environment

Professional development

Wellbeing Support


Further details about the role

Person Specification

Essential:

  • Experience working with children with SEND, preferably in a school setting.

  • Knowledge or experience of supporting children with visual impairments.

  • Understanding of inclusive educational practices and a commitment to equality and diversity.

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Ability to work collaboratively with staff, parents/carers, and external professionals.

  • Patience, empathy, and a positive, can-do attitude.

  • Willingness to undertake relevant training, including in visual impairment and safeguarding.

Desirable:

  • Experience with Braille or assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers, magnification tools).

  • Understanding of needs associated with children with ASD

  • Level of understanding on Mantle of the Expert and its place within our school ethos

  • Relevant qualifications (e.g., NVQ Level 2/3 in Supporting Teaching and Learning or equivalent)

  • Paediatric first Aid, Intimate Care and Manual Handling training.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@bealings.suffolk.sch.uk

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About Bealings School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
106 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
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Phone number
01473 622376

At Bealings School, we are a close-knit and supportive community of like-minded families for whom learning is all about growing in confidence, nurturing kindness and developing an awareness of, and respect for, the wonderful world around us. Our vision is simple: children are encouraged to feel awe for their environment, to express themselves freely yet sensitively, and to appreciate the contribution of their own ideas and those of others. Our 105 children benefit from a high degree of autonomy and agency, making wise decisions and asking questions of their adults and of each other.

Arranging a visit to Bealings School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@bealings.suffolk.sch.uk.

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