SEND Support Assistant

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  24 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,525.00 - £25,738.00 Annually (Actual) 37 hours per week Term Time plus Inset Days

SEND Support Assistant job summary

We are seeking to appoint a SEND support assistant to join our friendly team and help us to provide our students with the very best educational experience.

You will be working on a 1:1 or small group basis with students who have special educational needs, building strong relationships and positively impacting their learning experience.

Experience of supporting students with a multi-sensory impairment: HI and VI, in an educational establishment would be an advantage for this role.

The successful candidate will:

• Be dedicated and resilient when supporting children who experience significant barriers to learning.

• Have the ability to support students either in a classroom environment, 1:1 or in small groups.  

• Be able to draw on available resources to adapt and develop strategies to support students learning across different ages.

• Have experience of working with children with a range of SEND.

• Be an active member of the SEND team, putting students’ academic success and personal development at the forefront.

• Have excellent communication skills and a professional friendly manner.

• Be organised and efficient and able to prioritise workload.

• Have excellent IT skills and the ability to learn new systems quickly.

We can offer you:

• A strong, highly committed team of staff with an ethos of tolerance and a family community spirit

• Training and development and our commitment to staff wellbeing

• An environment which promotes innovation

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated

‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.

For all enquiries please contact Danielle Wakefield recruitment@shsg.org

Interviews to be held Tuesday 30th June 2026

We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English.

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

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

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 Southend High School for Girls

• School type: Academies, None, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1253 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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