SEN Support
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AR87 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
31 December 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £25,468.00 - £28,775.00 Annually (FTE)
SEN Support job summary
We are a thriving 3 form entry primary school with a nursery, located near Slough town centre and close to Datchet, Eton and Windsor. If you are committed to providing high-quality care, learning, and support for children, working collaboratively with the St Mary’s team to create a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment that promotes children’s wellbeing, learning, and development, then St Mary’s is the place for you.
What you’ll do:
- Support children’s learning, play, and development across the KS1 curriculum.
- Build strong relationships with children, families, and staff.
- Help maintain a safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment.
- Engage parents and carers, keeping them well informed and involved.
- Apply best practice in safeguarding, health and safety, and child wellbeing.
- Bring your own ideas and enthusiasm to our ambitious and caring school.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has experience working with children, ideally in an early years or nursery setting.
- Is passionate about education and aligns with our school’s values.
- Understands the importance of safeguarding and high-quality childcare.
- Communicates effectively with children, families, and colleagues.
- Is committed to ongoing professional development.
- Is prepared to attend to pupils’ personal needs including First Aid matters.
- Is discreet and able to maintain confidentiality.
- Is prepared to support children with Special Educational Needs in small groups and /or in 1:1 situations
- Has good organisational and IT skills.
Why join us?
- A supportive and friendly team environment.
- Opportunities for professional growth and training.
- A welcoming school with a clear vision and strong values.
- The chance to make a real difference in children’s lives.
- Well behaved, happy and enthusiastic children.
- A caring ethos with support from colleagues and the leadership team.
- A positive, friendly and resource-rich learning environment.
- Excellent professional development and career opportunities.
- An inclusive school which thrives on equality and diversity.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
St Mary’s CE Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all our pupils. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a successful enhanced DBS clearance process.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About St Mary's Church of England Primary School
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 675 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
St Mary’s school is between Slough's main high street and Upton Park. It is surrounded by thriving businesses, housing, churches as well as parks and woodlands. The school was set up by the church in the 19th century to serve the needs of its local community and it still does today.
St Mary's started off very small and today we accept on role around 660 pupils. The school centres around a busy and bustling diverse community that celebrates a range of ethnicities and culturally rich families that represent many parts of our integral world.
As a Church of England school, we value and are ambitious for all children and are committed to providing a positive, happy, safe and stimulating environment for them to enjoy and excel in their learning; grow in confidence, resilience and independence; achieve their full potential and flourish as individuals whatever their ability. To provide a safe, supportive and happy learning environment where all children can learn, grow, achieve and flourish.
We take every opportunity to work with churches and faith groups, schools, charities, businesses and organisations, resulting in exciting learning opportunities for our children and learning outside the classroom.
We also take part in many local, national and international events such as fundraising for global charities, competitions and campaigns, reflecting our school vision and core values. The Slough Foodbank, Defibrillators in Public Places (DiPPs), The Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service, NSPCC; Children in Need; Comic and Sports Relief; Macmillan Cancer Support; UNICEF UK campaigns are a few of the charities that we support.
In addition, we respond to emergency appeals when we can e.g. Cyclone Idai and the hurricane disaster Fund, supporting Alwyn Allison Primary School, Anguilla following Hurricane Irma.
We engage with our MPs, previously Fiona Mactaggart and Tan Dhesi and have visited them in The Houses of Parliament and have visited Slough Mayors’ Office. Slough Youth Parliament have several representatives who were previous pupils and who have now enjoyed prestigious political experiences in secondary schools. Black History Month is elaborated with local representative and creative partners. Sustrans worked with us to support sustainable transport and we have taken part in farm projects and county estates’ programmes for increasing access to local food, and attended Countryside Food and Music festivals.
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