SEND Specialist Teaching Assistant

Greenfield Primary Academy, Cheshire, Cheshire, SK14 1QD

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Pending completion of pre-employment checks

• Closing date

  28 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 36.66 Hours per week, 39 weeks per annum
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 6 SCP 23-27(£34,434 - £38,220 per annum, pro-rata)

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will:

• Have experience of working with children in an educational setting who may have different individual needs and learning styles in a Teaching Assistant capacity or equivalent.

• Have an NVQ3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification or experience

• Have specialist training or experience in a key area of Special Educational Needs such as Social, emotional and mental health; Communication and interaction; Cognition and learning; Sensory and/or physical.

• Have the ability to understand and develop the appropriate interventions that enable children to meet their EHC outcomes or personal targets.

• Have the ability to provide coaching and development to staff.

• Have a good understanding of safeguarding issues

• Work in partnership with teaching staff and other professionals as well as agencies, voluntary groups and service providers.

• Support an outreach provision offer.

What the school offers its staff

The Harmony Trust has the highest aspirations for its pupils, parents and staff members. Our vision is to provide an excellent primary education so that every academy is a ‘GreatPlace2Learn.’  Our aim is to ensure that children at our academies enjoy the best education from the early years to the end of the primary stage. Parents are very important to achieving this vision and we aim to work in partnership with them to ensure that all our children achieve our motto: ‘Believe Achieve Succeed’. We believe that school should be a place where every child makes progress in a safe and supportive environment. We believe in the importance of children developing well-being and high self-esteem if they are to learn and do well.

We also believe in The Harmony Trust being a ‘GreatPlace2Work’ where staff are supported to thrive by a trust that is committed to learning and education.  We have a great team of people working in our Academies.  We aim to retain them by investing in professional development, offering opportunities to work across the Trust ensuring Harmony is a great place to work.

The Harmony Trust was established in February 2014 and currently has 17 schools but looking to expand in the near future. This brings with it exciting opportunities for career progression and development for existing and future employees

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

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About Greenfield Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 200 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: htrecruitment@theharmonytrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greenfield-primary-academy

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