SEN Teaching Assistant

Windmill Primary School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 6LA

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  17 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 March 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: £16,756.62 - £16,756.62 Annually (Actual)

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

Hours: 30 hours a week, 39 weeks a year

Salary: £16,756.62

Fixed term contract: End date - August 2026

Windmill Primary School is a warm and happy school with well-being at the heart. All children are challenged, nurtured, and inspired to achieve highly and make a positive contribution to society.  We expect our teachers to lead by example; inspiring our young people to learn through a rich curriculum and the experiences we create for them inside and outside the classroom.

The Role

Windmill Primary School are looking to recruit 3 SEN Teaching Assistants to join the team. You need to be patient, hard-working and have high expectations for yourself and pupils. The post holder’s prime duties will be assisting the teacher with day-to-day work and helping to deliver learning programmes for individuals and small groups. A commitment to the life of the school is vital! School tours are encouraged.

Key Tasks:

To support teachers and pupils in the delivery of quality teaching and learning.

Provide support for the academic learning alongside the social, emotional and personal development of a pupil with additional need

Promote the involvement of pupils in the social and academic processes of the school (pupils with additional needs)

Enable pupils to become more independent learners

Help raise standards and support progress of pupils

Build relationships with pupils and teachers.

Complete SEN working records and attending multi agency meetings where appropriate.

About You

You will need:

Level 2 or Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent

Proven track record of strong and consistent behaviour management

Experience of working closely with parents in successful home-school partnerships that support pupils’ needs

A working knowledge of relevant and effective SEN interventions and how to support pupils with SEND

Skilled at making and sustaining positive relationships with children

Able to stimulate children’s interest in learning

Able to work closely with pupils who are finding learning difficult, or those who have experienced a feeling of failure

Skilled at developing children’s self-esteem and motivation so that they become resilient, independent learners

Capable of delivering intervention work and maintaining appropriate records

Knowledge and understanding of how children learn

Familiar with IT and its educational uses or approaches

Excellent written and oral communication skills

GCSE grade A to C or equivalent academic qualification in Maths and English

Benefits:

Access to retail discounts and technology schemes.

Access to Cycle to Work

24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter.

Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional

An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged.

Discounted gym membership

Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours – while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work

Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes.

Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process.

Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks.

We look forward to your response.

The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.

*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Windmill Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 384 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Windmill Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/windmill-primary-school-nn9-6la

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