SEN Support Assistant

St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 6LZ

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  9 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  15 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £20,153.00 - £22,319.00 Annually (Actual)

SEN Support Assistant job summary

We are wholeheartedly committed to ensuring all who work and learn in the school can be the very best versions

of themselves; we believe in fostering a community where all are loved and belong.

To help us live out our mission, we are seeking to appoint an excellent SEN Support Assistant to be part of our highly

effective SEN team, playing an integral role in helping us to achieve our aim.

The successful candidate will be expected to help our pupils who experience specific difficulties with their studies.

In particular, this will involve:

• Supporting a range of pupils in overcoming difficulties in learning in classroom and small group situations
• Responding to pupils in a positive way
• Using initiative and working independently
• Keeping written records
• Liaising with staff, parents and other agencies
• Supervising groups of students as necessary

Experience of supporting pupils with visual/hearing impairment, behavioural, emotional and social difficulties,

physical disabilities and/or English as an additional language would be beneficial.

The candidate must, ideally, have experience in delivering intervention programmes in areas such as:

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Speech language and communication
• Social, emotional and mental health difficulties

Those seeking full and part time employment are welcome to apply.

Potential candidates are welcome to visit the school by appointment, contacting Mrs K McGough (Academy Manager) 01782 883000 or email kmcgough@smwca.org.uk

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

The Academy is committed to the safeguarding and welfare
of children and young people and expects all of its employees
to share this commitment. This post is subject to the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Amendment
Order 1986 and, as such, it will be necessary for a Submission
for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring
Service to check for any previous convictions

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 Margaret Ward Catholic Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1143 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-margaret-ward-catholic-academy

St Margaret Ward is a happy, popular, oversubscribed 11-18
academy with an impressive record of success, acknowledged in
our inspection in September 2021 (full report on school/Ofsted
website).

We are extremely proud of our enthusiastic and ambitious staff
who are committed to helping our students become the very best
they can be and, as such, the Academy Directors are seeking an ambitious and dedicated individual who can help us in our mission

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