SEN Teaching Assistant

Kelsall Primary and Nursery School, Tarporley, Cheshire, CW6 0PU

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  3rd September 2025

• Closing date

  7 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,744.00 - £18,311.00 Annually (Actual)

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

This role will require working with the class teacher to deliver outstanding inclusive practice to children with complex needs. This includes:

- Delivering interventions and support as outlined with a child’s EHCP (small group and 1:1)

- Planning and delivering other interventions e.g., speech and language, WellCom

- Sensory Circuits and other sensory support

- Encouraging inclusion in the classroom and the wider life of the school

- Foster positive relationships with families and work with them to support their child to be successful

- Work with outside agencies to implement their recommendations to support the development and inclusion of children with complex needs.

The role will be 32 hours per week, and will include supporting our Before and/or After School Club for 2 days each week. This will involve working as part of a small, supportive team to provide high-quality care and engaging activities for children outside of normal school hours. You will typically be required for Breakfast Club from 8:00am, and After School Club until 4.45pm, with occasional flexibility up to 6:00pm when needed. The role involves building positive relationships, promoting play-based learning, and ensuring the safety and well-being of all pupils during these sessions.

Kelsall Primary and Nursery School was a founding school of Cheshire Academies Trust and recently maintained its Outstanding judgement by Ofsted. We are a forward-thinking and creative school that embrace an Expeditionary Learning approach to education. We promote crew culture, which impels all members of a school community to work together as a team. At Kelsall, crew culture is an engine for equity and inclusion, a place where all children feel they belong and can succeed. The successful candidates will be encouraged to engage in the full life of the school community, demonstrate enthusiasm, work collaboratively within our experienced team, be creative and have high expectations for all children. We are looking for an outstanding team player, with a sense of humour.

Please read our job description and person specification closely. We would like to offer all potential candidates the opportunity to visit our school and find out more about the role. Visits will take place by appointment please contact the school on 01829 752811 or email businessmanager@kelsall.cheshire.sch.uk to make an appointment.

To apply for this role please complete the application form along with a letter of application (no more than 2 sides A4) detailing your skills, qualifications and experience, aligned to the job description and person specification. We do not accept C.V.’s and will not consider applications submitting a C.V.

CAT Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This includes a request for references, prior to interview. Shortlisted candidates are expected to provide evidence of qualifications at interview and a satisfactory, enhanced DBS check will be undertaken before final confirmation to the successful candidate.

We warmly welcome applications from every suitably qualified member of our local community. We regret that we are unable to provide feedback on the shortlisting process. If we have not been in touch with you by 8th July then, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Shortlisting: Monday 7th July 2025

Interviews: Thursday 10th July 2025 (Time T.B.C)

We reserve the right to close advertisements early. Advertisements will therefore close at 9am either on the advertised closing date, or the day the decision has been taken to close the advertisement early.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Kelsall Primary and Nursery School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 239 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kelsall Primary and Nursery School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kelsall-primary-and-nursery-school

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