1 to 1 SEN Teaching Assistant
Bealings School, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 6LWThis job expired on 20 June 2025 – see similar jobs
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
Professional development
Wellbeing Support
Further details about the role
Person Specification
Essential:
Experience working with children with SEND, preferably in a school setting.
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).
Knowledge or experience of supporting children with visual impairments.
- 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.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
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
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bealings School website
- Email address
- admin@bealings.suffolk.sch.uk
- 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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