GR2 EHCP 1:1 Support Assistant (KS2)

St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 7LP

29 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  2nd November 2026

• Closing date

  30 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £25,583.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (Actual)

GR2 EHCP 1:1 Support Assistant (KS2) job summary

This role is specifically linked to supporting an individual KS2 pupil with an EHCP.

Essential Skills:

• Ability to support the pupil's personal care needs, in line with Local Authority guidance where required
• Past experience supporting a pupil/pupils who have Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
• Experience delivering planned, personalised, and multi-sensory learning activities based on pupils’ EHCP outcomes, under the direction of the Class Teacher
• Confidence in providing effective 1:1 support to pupils
• Confidence using technology to capture pupil's learning and progress, to support the Class Teacher
• Ability to maintain effective ongoing communication and regular review processes between home and school

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working with children with complex communication needs, including autism
• Experience supporting non-verbal learners
• Knowledge and experience in delivering multi-sensory approaches to learning
• Training or experience in early communication strategies, such as Intensive Interaction, Makaton, Attention Autism (Bucket), and activities to develop communication and language (e.g. copying games, choice-making, matching activities)
• Experience supporting children with sensory processing difficulties
• Training in safer handling approaches (e.g. Team Teach)

The successful applicant will:

• Fully support the Catholic ethos of our school.
• Have high standards of oral, written and numeracy skills.
• A great team player who can also work independently and take initiative.
• Kind, committed to education and ensuring equal opportunities for all pupils.
• Take part in whole-school INSET activities to enhance job effectiveness
• Past experience working within a Catholic school would be desirable, but is not essential
• This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016), and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

In return, our school offers:

• Professional and dedicated staff, supportive parents, and active Governors
• A strong, hardworking and dedicated staff team
• A genuinely exciting partnership of schools, known as the Tolkien Cluster, that thrive together as a group through training and shared expertise
• A willingness to embrace new ideas

To apply for this post:

If you feel you can make a positive and confident contribution to our school, we would be delighted to hear from you. Applicants are warmly encouraged to visit our school and to speak to the Headteacher about this role.

All applications must be made via My New Term, a link is available from the school website: www.stdunstans.bham.sch.uk

Please note that only fully completed CES application forms will be considered; we will not read any accompanying Curriculum Vitae (CV) or accept in place of correct application forms.

Closing date Wednesday 30th September at 12 noon. Interviews will be held during the week commencing Monday 12th October, date and time to be confirmed.

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 St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 288 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-dunstan-s-catholic-primary-school

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