Deputy Lead for SEND
St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre, Bristol, BS2 9JF12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 September 2025
Closing date
26 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 24629-26288
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Have real warmth and can build loving and trusting relationships with our children, families, team and community.
- Can positively support children to actively explore the learning environment inside and outside.
- Who have experience or interest in working with children with social communication differences and autism.
- Who are observant to children’s attempts to communicate and encourage the use of words, signs and symbols.
- Will work with the key person and other professionals to implement and monitor Individual Provision Plans and small group sessions (talking tunes, Attention Autism etc)
- Can work with the team to ensure all children’s safety in our busy nursery environment.
- Will support children in all areas of their physical care including changing and specialist feeding.
- Enjoy responsibility and challenge.
- Are committed to providing an inclusive and creative environment.
What the school offers its staff
- A committed and highly experienced team with pedagogical leadership at the heart
- Strong principles and values that underpin all we do
- Supportive and challenging CPD opportunities, supervision, mentoring and coaching
- A supportive and inclusive environment
- Opportunities to ‘get stuck into’ things, take the lead, follow your interests
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 eva.gossan@bristol-schools.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 5
- Education phase
- Nursery
- School size
- 140 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 5
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre website
- Email address
- eva.gossan@bristol-schools.uk
- Phone number
- 01179030337
This is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified or experienced practitioner to join our outstanding, vibrant inner city Nursery School & Children’s Centre.
Come and join our exceptional, reflective, creative, sensitive and supportive staff team and be part of our happy setting.
At St Pauls we strive to ensure all our children, families and staff teams feel valued, are inspired by learning and thrive in our learning community.
We hope this sounds like the sort of place you want to work in.
St Pauls is also a National Teaching School, so offers high quality professional learning and development, plays host to many visitors and is involved in developing and sharing research. All staff have opportunities to get involved in deeper level thinking.
Arranging a visit to St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email eva.gossan@bristol-schools.uk.
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