2 x SEND Support Teaching Assistants
St Martin's CofE Primary School, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 3DE4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
8th September 2025
Closing date
6 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,570.00 - £24,786.00 Annually (FTE) 2 roles available, term time only , 30 hours per week. Actual salary is £16,200 - £17,036 depending on experience.
2 x SEND Support Teaching Assistants job summary
🌟 Join Our Team – Two SEND Teaching Assistant Roles at St Martin’s School (30 hours/week)
Support, inspire, and champion our brilliant learners across the school
About us
St Martin’s Church of England Primary School in Liskeard is a vibrant, nurturing and ambitious school where children are at the heart of all we do. Guided by our Christian vision and values, we believe every child is a gift, full of potential and worthy of the highest expectations. Our inclusive culture celebrates every learner, ensuring all children—including those with SEND—are supported to thrive.
The roles
We are excited to be recruiting two SEND Teaching Assistants to provide flexible, responsive support for a number of learners with additional needs across the school. 30 hours/week (term time), starting 8th September 2025 on a 1 year fixed term contract initially and subject to ongoing funding being received.
As a 1:1 Teaching Assistant, you play a crucial role in aiding students on their educational journey. Cultivating various strategies to meet each student's unique needs is essential. Collaboration with teachers, therapists, and families to develop comprehensive support plans is vital.
We are looking for a 1:1 Teaching Assistant - to assist in the educational, personal, and social development of a child under the direction and guidance of relevant colleagues (e.g. the Headteacher, SENCo and Class Teacher). Our ideal candidate will:
Have experience working with children with SEN on 1:1 basis or in class
Preferred training or experience in Makaton
Be passionate about working with SEN children on a 1:1 basis
Be flexible, proactive and patient
Be able to communicate effectively within a team
Work well as part of a caring team, under the direction of a Class Teacher.
Recognise the varying needs of individual learners and adjust tasks accordingly.
Contribute to our Church of England ethos.
Secure high quality relationships with parents, carers and the wider community.
Bring creativity and enthusiasm to each and every new day.
The role would be term time, Monday to Friday, totaling 30 hours a week. This is a fixed term contract until 31st August 2026 subject to ongoing funding being received.
In return we offer an great benefits package that consists of:
Generous local authority pension scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance programme
Flexible working considered
Enhanced holiday entitlement, plus further accrual though length of service
Free eyecare vouchers for DSE users
Corporate gym membership discount
Ongoing Training and Development opportunities
St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a supportive and inclusive working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.
We do not discriminate against staff based on age, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religious or political belief or affiliation, trade union membership, gender, gender reassignment, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, disability, socio-economic background or any other inappropriate distinction or characteristic covered by the Equality Act 2010.
St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. Please be aware that all shortlisted candidates will have an online search conducted as part of the Trust’s due diligence checks in line with KCSIE.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Martin's CofE Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 310 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Martin's CofE Primary School website
St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust is made up of a group of 13 schools, of which St Martin's CE Primary School is one, who work closely together in order to ensure they provide the best education for pupils in the Liskeard Area. Our vision is that of the parable of the lost sheep. We work hard to ensure that everyone is valued and that nobody gets left behind.
The Trust is evolving all the time, most recent developments include; improvements to the delivery of reading, a focus on the teaching oracy, development towards a 'Knowledge Rich Curriculum', a full outdoor programme from YR-Y6 and a residential programme that includes all pupils from Y2 to Y6.
School leaders work closely together sharing expertise. Senior leaders from each school meet fortnightly with the CEO to effect change and support each other to raise standards across the Trust.
Schools are supported by our central team in areas including; safeguarding, information management & GDPR, financial planning, processing & auditing, estates management, writing bids for capital funding, health and safety, technical infrastructure and hardware.
Teachers across the Trust share the workload by actively working together to support; subject leadership, curriculum development, planning, outdoor education and residential visits. In this way everyone feels part of the wider organisation and understand the benefits of a collaborative approach.
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