SEN Teaching Assistant

Surfleet Primary School, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 4DB

3 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  17 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 July 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: £4,445.00 - £4,659.00 Annually (Actual)

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

Surfleet Primary School is looking to add to our friendly and supportive staff team for new roles starting in September 2025.

Being a fully inclusive school, we are looking for the following TA role:

1x Grade 3 point 6 position available working Thursday and Friday

• 1 x part time SEN Teaching Assistant (7 hours split over Thursday and Friday morning) to work with children who are already established in our school

We offer a great education to our children as well as plenty of opportunities to develop their personal and leadership skills. Our children are happy, eager to learn and feel safe at school. We are a small school at the heart of the community, judged Good by Ofsted in June 2024. We strive for the very best for all of our pupils with support from our parents, who want the very best for their children. If this sounds like the type of school you would like to work in, please apply!

Please read the attached Person Specification and Job Description that will support you with your application. However, as the children’s needs are very different, we are looking for very different people! Do not be put off applying if you don’t ‘fit’ the expectations in the documents. We are looking for great people, not necessarily great qualifications.

We welcome visits to the school, if you are able to. Please contact the office to make an appointment.

Here’s hoping to see you at our wonderful school in the near future.

Overview of the role of SEN Teaching Assistant:

Providing support to students in and out of the classroom.

Assisting Teachers with a range of educational needs.

Providing students with the care and compassion they need to thrive in school.

Liaising with parents and external agencies where suitable.

Supporting with appropriate interventions such as literacy and numeracy.

Work collaboratively as a team to improve outcomes for our students.

We would love to hear from people who:

Are passionate about education.

Have strong English and Maths skills and be willing to learn and develop existing skills.

Promote a child’s development and learning (physical, emotional, educational and social) whilst fostering growth, self-esteem and independence.

. Would like the opportunity to support students within a mainstream environment.

Are kind individuals.

Would like the opportunity to progress within the school and obtain career focused professional qualifications.

Act in accordance with school policies and procedures and relevant legislation, particularly in relation to child protection, safeguarding and behaviour management.

Providing students with the care and compassion they need to thrive in school.

Liaising with parents and external agencies where suitable.

Supporting with appropriate interventions such as literacy and numeracy.

Work collaboratively as a team to improve outcomes for our students.

Keystone Academy Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates prior to appointment, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity. All pre-employment checks are in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

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 Surfleet Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 64 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Surfleet Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/surfleet-primary-school-spalding

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