Level 3 Teaching Assistant {SEN}

Marlborough Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B10 9NY

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  SEPTEMBER 2025

• Closing date

  23 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  9 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,909.00 Annually (FTE) PRO RATA TERM TIME SALARY

Level 3 Teaching Assistant {SEN} job summary

Teaching Assistants Marlborough Primary School

(To work within our Resource Base provision for children with Autism)

📍 Location: Birmingham, West Midlands

📌 Salary: level 3 will include SEND allowance

🗓 Start Date: September 2025

📝 Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Join Our Inclusive and Ambitious School Community

Are you an aspirational and dedicated person with a passion for inclusive education? Do you have the expertise to work as part of a team delivering outstanding SEND provision? If so, we would love to hear from you!

At Marlborough Primary School, we pride ourselves on being a happy, warm and welcoming school with children at the heart of everything we do. We have high expectations, and a culture of learning built upon trust and support.

We are looking for passionate Teaching Assistants to join our friendly school as part of our Resource Base for children with Autism. As a valued member of our Resource Base Team, you will work closely with the specialist SEND team to ensure that every pupil within our Resource Base thrives in a supportive and inclusive learning environment.

About the Role:

This role is a specialist position within our Autism Resource Base, requiring applicants with experience and expertise in supporting children with Autism. We are seeking individuals who have a strong understanding of autism-specific strategies and interventions. These may include:

Makaton

Attention Autism

PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)

SCERTS (Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, and Transactional Support)

Speech and language support.

The successful candidates will play a vital role in creating an inclusive, structured, and nurturing environment that enables children to develop their communication and social skills and independence. Experience in working within a specialist setting or supporting children with complex needs is essential, as this role demands a deep commitment to meeting the unique needs of our Autistic learners. We are willing to develop staff that have a keen interest in this area.

What We Are Looking For

We are seeking aspirational and dedicated Teaching Assistants who:

Have a positive, optimistic outlook

Have experience of working within a specialist setting or supporting children with complex needs

Have a passion for teaching and learning and inclusive practice

Care deeply about children’s learning and their emotional wellbeing

Show initiative and work collaboratively with a team

Have great communication skills with the ability to build trust and confidence with parents, children and colleagues

Why Join Us?

The school is very ambitious for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Learning is carefully adapted so that all pupils, including those in the Resource Base receive the same curriculum.

A positive and enthusiastic team of staff who are committed to achieving the best for all pupils

Happy, motivated, keen to learn children

A supportive and welcoming school with a strong commitment to inclusion and excellence.

A collaborative and experienced leadership team, committed to professional growth and school improvement.

Excellent CPD opportunities, including leadership development and SEND-focused training.

How to Apply:

If you share our vision for excellence, inclusion, and high expectations for all and would like to be part of our team, we encourage you to apply.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact the School Office a member of the Senior Leadership Team. 0121 464 4241

📧 enquiry@mps.bham.sch.uk

🔗 For more information and to apply, please visit our website

🔗 Only applications submitted via the MyNewTerm portal will be considered:

Equal Opportunities, Safeguarding & Child Protection

Marlborough Primary believes that its workforce should reflect the local community and that all groups within the community should have equal access to the Trust’s employment opportunities. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Marlborough Primary School 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 all necessary pre-employment checks including: Enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable reference. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2023. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account."

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Marlborough Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 642 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Marlborough Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/marlborough-primary-school-birmingham

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