SEN Teaching Assistant

St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN5 7HX

2 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
31 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 January 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: £24,027.00 Annually (FTE)

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School is a delightful one form entry primary school educating approximately 200 pupils and is located towards the North of Northampton. We are part of Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Academies Trust which is a large new Catholic Multi Academy Trust situated in the northern half of the Catholic Diocese of Northampton formed by the merger of three former Catholic Trusts in February 2020. The Trust currently leads and manages ten Catholic primary schools located across the geographical area of Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire and, two Catholic secondary schools.

The school is seeking a highly committed and passionate SEN Teaching Assistant as part of a supportive team. You would be joining a nurturing and caring school environment underpinned by a Catholic ethos and educational focus, whose aim is for every pupil to leave with a strong moral purpose, high aspirations and immense pride in what they have achieved during their time with us. With the support of the Trust, St Mary’s is on an incredible journey of school improvement. Through a relentless focus on pupil progress and end of Key Stage outcomes, a strong emphasis on staff development and additional day-to-day support with financial and operational management, we have built the foundations for a bright and exciting future for this school.

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.