SEN Teaching Assistant

Bishops Castle Primary School, Bishops Castle, Shropshire, SY9 5PA

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 October 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  16 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: 28.75 hours Teaching Assistant Grade 5 or 6 (£13.47-£14.58 p/h)
• Additional allowances:

  28.75 hours Teaching Assistant Grade 5 or 6 (£13.47-£14.58 p/h)

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

We are ideally looking for someone who:

• Is suitably qualified through qualifications or experience
• Has specialised experience working 1:1 with children who have additional needs, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
• Has recent experience working in the classroom with small groups and/or individual children
• Believes in giving every child the opportunity to be the best they can be
• Enjoys being part of a hardworking and committed team
• Is highly motivated and able to act on their own initiative
• Is patient, good humoured and flexible
• Has high aspirations for themselves and the children they work with
• Has the potential to develop

28.75 hours per week TA - term time only - initially Fixed Term to 31/08/2025 - Monday to Friday 8.30a.m. to 3.30p.m.

We can offer you:

• Responsive, enthusiastic children who love coming to school;
• A hardworking, happy and dedicated school team;
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Rewards Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme;
• Highly supportive parents and Trust; and
• Support for your professional development.

The Diocese of Hereford Multi-Academy Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff, and volunteers, to share the same commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and will follow the safer recruitment policy.

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 Bishops Castle Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 136 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bishops Castle Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bishops-castle-primary-school-bishops-castle

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