SEMH Specialist Resource Base Primary School Teaching Assistant

More than one location, Cornerstone Academy Trust

32 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 September 2025

• Closing date

  31 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 July 2025

Important

This teaching role is at more than one school in the trust. You can find out more in schools overview.

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: Core working hours will be for a slightly extended school day of 8.30am to 4.00pm, term time (40 weeks) but there are opportunities to work extended hours with our wraparound care offer in our breakfast or after school club
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,300 depending on experience and qualifications

What skills and experience we're looking for

This is an exciting time to join Cornerstone Academy Trust, with schools located in Exeter, East Devon, and the coastal town of Barnstaple in North Devon. Our Trust is nationally and internationally recognised for outstanding and innovative education. We lead several Department for Education ‘centres of excellence’ and support schools across the country with professional development and school improvement strategies

We are seeking to recruit a SEMH Specialist Teaching Assistant to work within our modern, purpose-built Resource Base to support our SEMH Specialist Teacher in providing a high quality, personalised curriculum to support children’s individual needs. With Marpool Primary School being a recent addition to our Trust, this is an exciting opportunity to help pioneer and bring about change and to provide an enhanced provision to those children with additional needs to help them to access their education in an inclusive and supportive way.

What you will bring;

• Relevant experience of working with children with SEMH, who is enthusiastic about supporting and educating primary aged children
• Passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role modeland to helpidentifyways in which to reintegrate them into the classroom

Your role;

• You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher
• You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall
• As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children

• Involved in leading playtime activities with children and supporting within the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time

What the school offers its staff

• Heavily discounted childcare 
• Health and cycle-to-work schemes 
• Generous pension scheme 
• Subsidised meals from our in-house chefs 
• Free tea and coffee  
• Commitment to ongoing professional development 
• State-of-the-art IT equipment 

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Cornerstone Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Cornerstone Academy Trust website
• Email address: vacancy@tcat.education
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cornerstone-academy-trust

A multi academy trust, based in Exeter, made up of seven primary schools.

School Details

Marpool Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 249 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Marpool Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/marpool-primary-school-exmouth

Arranging a visit to Cornerstone Academy Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancy@tcat.education.

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