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SEND Support Assistant
Old Buckenham High School, Attleborough, Norfolk, NR17 1RLDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time: 29.58 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,185 to £25,989
Actual salary
- Pro Rata; £16,870 - £17,724
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a hard-working and enthusiastic individual with high standards, and the ability to communicate and interact effectively with others, to join our school as a SEND Support Assistant.
Our SEND Support Assistants are mainly intervention based but will also support students in all curriculum areas and across all year groups - levels of need vary between year groups. Applicants will need a good basic education, good communication skills, be able to work proactively and an interest in working with young people.
Closing date: Friday 31st October 2025
Interview date: week commencing 10th
November 2025
What the school offers its staff
Old Buckenham High School is a small yet vibrant school situated in the heart of the beautiful Norfolk countryside. With an idyllic rural location, we are less than 30 minutes’ drive from Norwich, offering the perfect balance of peaceful surroundings and easy access to the city.
Currently, we have around 500 students aged between 11 and 16 years. Our vision is to provide an inspiring, challenging, and inclusive learning environment, driven by high-quality, evidence-based teaching. We hold traditional values and are incredibly proud of our excellent pastoral care, guidance, and support, ensuring all students feel valued and nurtured.
At Old Buckenham High School, we are passionate about creating a strong, positive community ethos, where mutual respect and high standards are at the core of everything we do. We aim to develop brilliant young people who are hardworking, respectful, and committed to contributing to the community around them. As a school on an exciting journey of improvement, we are building on our previous successes. Our most recent inspection praised us with a ‘Good’ rating across all aspects, and we are determined to continue building on this strong foundation.
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Old Buckenham High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 497 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Old Buckenham High School website
- Email address
- hr@setust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01953609012
Old Buckenham High School is a small/medium-sized high school set in the heart of the beautiful Norfolk countryside. We currently have around 495 students aged between 11 and 16 years, boys and girls. In each of our years we have either three or four tutor groups with an average of 24 students in each.
Students are assigned a ‘house’ when they start; Turing, Rashford, Malala, Attenborough. Students in each house compete in various interhouse competitions, including music and sports, and students are mentored by older students in their own house or paired with a literacy assistant to support their reading or a numeracy assistant for maths.
Our leadership group consists of a headteacher, a deputy headteacher and two assistant headteachers. We also have key stage leaders for the two key stages who oversee all students, from years 7 to 11.
We have curriculum leaders and subject teachers in the following subject areas; English, Maths, Science, Design & Technology, Expressive Arts, Geography, History, Modern Foreign Languages, Physical Education and Personal Development.
Arranging a visit to Old Buckenham High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@setust.co.uk.
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