Assistant to the SENDCo

Lambourn CofE Primary School, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 7LJ

32 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st February 2026

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 11am

• Date listed

  4 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,033.74 - £25,239.50 Annually (Actual) SCP 14 £29540.00 FTE - SCP 17 £31,022.00 FTE

Assistant to the SENDCo job summary

About this Role

Assistant to the SENDCo - Term Time plus one week, 35 hours per week

Fixed Term starting 1st February 2026 - 31st August 2028

Salary: £24, 033 pa actual (£29,540 FTE SCP 14) to £25.239 pa actual (£31,022 FTE SCP 17)

We are looking for an Assistant to the SENDCo to join our dedicated team of staff at Lambourn C of E Primary, a small school with big ideas, set within beautiful grounds.

At Lambourn, our vision is simple - we work closely together, sharing our common goal of inspiring our children and staff to achieve, to enjoy life and learning.

We would love to hear from you if you feel you could share in this aspiration. We are looking for:

• An enthusiastic team player who can contribute to the management and support of our pupils;
• A supportive individual who could support our SENDCo with co-ordinating paperwork;
• A person who can establish and maintain relationships with individual pupils and groups;
• A caring individual who can support the learning and emotional needs of children as directed by the SENDCo.

Lambourn is a large village set in rolling hills with easy accessibility to Swindon (12 miles), Marlborough (13 miles), Wantage (9 miles) and Newbury (13 miles). We are very proud of our facilities - we have huge grounds, a minibus, a swimming pool and good ICT.

In return we can offer you:

• Great children;
• A supportive team;
• Staff who care for their children and each other;
• Excellent resources and facilities;
• Employee Health and wellbeing services.

Informal discussion about the position and visits to the school are warmly encouraged. Please contact the school office via email at admin@Lambourn.excalibur.org.uk or call us on 01488 71479 to arrange this.

As an academy we work within the support of Excalibur Academies Trust, which offers our employees many wide ranging opportunities for future professional development. For further Trust information, please see Excalibur’s website.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing Date for Applications: Midday 5th January 2026

Interview Date: 9th January 2026

We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date, early applications are recommended.

Safeguarding Statement

Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community. The aims of the Trust’s recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Lambourn CofE Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 144 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lambourn CofE Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lambourn-cofe-primary-school

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