Casual / Supply Teaching Assistant - SEN

Watling View School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 2NU

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  13 February 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.85 Hourly

Casual / Supply Teaching Assistant - SEN job summary

We are looking to appoint energetic, enthusiastic Casual Teaching Assistants as part of our supply bank to work with our amazing pupils who have severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and Autism. Previous experience with special needs children would be an advantage but not necessary. Various hours available, term time only. From £12.85 per hour

up to 30 hours per week, 38 weeks of the year (school term time only)

Usual school day is 9.00am to 3.30pm

We are proud of our:
Extraordinary pupils
Innovative, dedicated staff
Excellent support and encouragement from Governors and the Senior Leadership Team
Varied and superb quality professional development (CPD)
School community that continually strives to improve
Ethos of focusing on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all pupils and staff

We will offer you:
A new starter induction programme
Membership to Herts Rewards, our employee benefits scheme including discounts and cashback for high street shops and online shopping
A varied and ongoing professional development programme (CPD)
Generous pension provision
Various staff social events during the academic year
Optional Childcare Vouchers scheme
Free on-site car park

Watling View is a Good School (Ofsted, April 2025), catering for the needs of children and young people with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties (3 to 19 years in age). A significant number of our pupils have autism. We aim to develop and enhance the potential of our pupils through an ethos and philosophy which emphasises that we are all of equal value as members of an interdependent supportive community.

Watling View is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to satisfactory clearance of enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, including the barred lists, as well as all other pre-appointment checks in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (2025).

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 Watling View School

• School type: Special school, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 111 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Watling View School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/watling-view-school

Watling View School is a maintained special school in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The school caters for up to 92 pupils, from 2-19 years, with a wide range of complex and profound learning difficulties. These include severe autism, complex medical conditions, physical and mobility difficulties, as well as severe developmental delay.

We are passionate about our vision, which guides us in all that we do for our pupils. "Watling View - Be kind, Be responsible, Be the Best You Can"

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