SEN Teaching Assistant

Ilsington Church of England Primary School, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 9RE

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 December 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: £12.65 - £13.26 Hourly Term Time only

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

Part Time, Fixed Term Temporary post to commence as soon as possible in January 2026

3 days per week, to also include a mealtime duty each day

This particular role is a fixed term appointment linked to EHCP funding for specific support for a pupil with special educational needs in KS2.

Ilsington has a long history of providing a warm, caring, and creative environment where all children are welcome and where they are encouraged to be independent, active learners. Our school’s culture is firmly rooted in its Christian values of Friendship, Kindness, Honesty, Resilience, Respect and Compassion.

We offer you the support of clear systems, protocols, expectations and structures to help you to succeed. You will need to show initiative, creativity and demonstrate the aptitude to work as part of a successful and growing team to improve the life chances of our pupils and make every child feel ‘special’. We want you to come and join our happy, positive learning environments where our consistent vision is that through collaboration we will always be ‘Stronger Together’.

We are looking for someone with a strong, sensitive and caring approach to children’s needs, who is able to be an effective communicator and think creatively. You will need to show a high degree of initiative and be solution focussed.

Ideally, you will:

Provide a sensitive and nurturing approach to children’s needs,
Be able to build positive relationships with children, staff and parents;
Have excellent English and Maths skills;
Be willing to work as part of a team and have a good sense of humour;
Be able to use your own initiative when required;
Have experience in a similar role in a school;
Have prior knowledge and experience of working with children with special educational needs.
You should have literacy and numeracy to GCSE A-C or equivalent.

What we can offer you:

Salary Sacrifice offers, including Bike2Work, Tech Scheme and Gym Membership
Substantial workplace pension
Term time ‘Give Back Day’ to take for personal reasons
Staff Wellbeing support
CPD opportunities for all staff

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and Social Media online check.

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.

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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 Ilsington Church of England Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 98 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ilsington Church of England Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ilsington-church-of-england-primary-school

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