SEN Teaching Assistant

Holme Hall Primary School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 4RL

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  31 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £7,431.00 Annually (Actual) The salary quoted is the actual salary for 11 hours per week. The role is term time and is fixed until 31.8.27
• Additional allowances:

  The salary quoted is the actual salary for 11 hours per week. The role is term time and is fixed until 31.8.27

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

Holme Hall Primary School is a warm and friendly place where expectations are high. We are committed to providing the very best opportunities for our children through a broad and inclusive curriculum which seeks to develop the whole child. Our staff are dedicated and passionate, with a sense of fun and commitment to every child. The successful candidates will be excellent classroom practitioners with experience of working with children with a range of needs and who are dedicated to enabling children to achieve their personal best. The successful applicant will:

Provide skilled support to children with ADHD, Autism, and a wide range of additional needs, using approaches that promote understanding, patience, and consistency.

Apply trauma informed and relational practice, ensuring every child feels safe, valued, and understood.

Work collaboratively as part of the team, contributing ideas, sharing insights, and maintaining strong communication.

Prepare and adapt learning materials, interventions, and classroom support to meet individual pupils’ learning styles, abilities, and targets. Support children’s physical, social, and emotional wellbeing, fostering confidence, resilience, and positive relationships.

Bring creativity and innovation to learning activities, problem solving, and engagement strategies.

Maintain high expectations for both achievement and behaviour, promoting a culture of respect, effort, and aspiration.

Uphold and actively promote the school’s values, ethos, and inclusive vision.

Champion the inclusion of all pupils, ensuring that children with specific needs are fully supported and able to participate meaningfully in school life.

Demonstrate strong motivation and passion for helping children thrive, making a genuine and lasting difference in their educational journey.

Use initiative to assess, monitor, and evaluate pupils’ needs, adjusting support strategies as required.

Lead targeted intervention groups, delivering structured sessions that accelerate progress and build key skills. Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are looking for someone with a flexible, positive, outgoing, caring and nurturing approach. Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.

Context

The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.

We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.

Why do we exist?

Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future

• Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.
• Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.
• Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect

How will we act?

We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;

Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)

Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)

Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)

Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)

Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)

Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)

Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)

What is our strategy?

We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;

Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools

Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity

Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children

Seeks continuous improvement and disruptive innovation

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person.

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

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 Holme Hall Primary School

• School type: Academies, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 127 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/holme-hall-primary-school-chesterfield

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