SEND Teaching Assistant

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 5JW

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  27 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  13 June 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: £25,583.00 Annually (FTE) Scale E, point 7

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

SEND Teaching Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, hardworking and caring teaching assistant to join our school team to support children with special educational needs and disabilities through direct work with children, supporting our SENCO and working with other professionals.

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is an inclusive, diverse and over-subscribed school, serving the community of Eastfield and the St Peter and All Sould Parish. We are proud members of St John the Baptist Catholic Multi-academy Trust.

Christian values are at the core of our school and community however we welcome applicants from any or no faith background. We have very strong links with our local communities and Parish and regularly hold masses and worship in school with a commitment to developing our children spiritually as well as academically and socially.

As a school, we are committed to the professional development of all staff through professional learning cycles. We are committed to ensuring that practical approaches to workload are put in place to support all staff and this commitment is realised through a Trust-level and school-level wellbeing charter.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work under the guidance of teaching staff and/or SENCo to support the delivery of personalised speech and language programmes.

• Provide 1:1 and small group interventions focused on developing language and communication.

• Assist pupils in accessing the curriculum, adapting resources where needed.

• Observe, monitor, and record pupils’ progress and provide feedback to the class teacher and SENCo.

• Support classroom management and maintain an inclusive, supportive learning environment.

• Work in partnership with professionals such as Speech and Language Therapists (SaLTs), Educational Psychologists, and external agencies.

• Communicate effectively with parents/carers about children’s speech and language development, as appropriate.

• Help with administrative tasks such as preparing resources or maintaining assessment records.

• Follow safeguarding procedures and contribute to pupils’ overall well-being.

  Essential Criteria
  Experience	- Experience working with children in a school or early years setting - Experience supporting children with speech, language, or communication needs (SLCN)
  Knowledge and Skills	- Understanding of child development and learning - Knowledge of strategies to support SLCN - Ability to implement and adapt speech and language support plans - Good communication and interpersonal skills - Basic ICT competence (e.g., using Microsoft Office, communication apps)
  Personal Qualities	- Empathetic, patient, and nurturing approach - Able to work effectively as part of a team - Flexible and proactive - Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

  
  Desirable Criteria- Specific training in speech and language support (e.g., ELKLAN, Talk Boost)
  - Knowledge of Makaton or PECS
  - Experience working alongside SaLT professionals
  - First aid training

Desirable Criteria
- Specific training in speech and language support (e.g., ELKLAN, Talk Boost) - Knowledge of Makaton or PECS - Experience working alongside SaLT professionals - First aid training

Commitment to safeguarding

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We recognise that all staff, governors and volunteers have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils at our school.

The health, safety and well-being of every child in our care will always be of paramount concern. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families and carers has a full and active role to play in safeguarding children.

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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About St Thomas More Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 412 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Thomas More Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-thomas-more-catholic-primary-school-pe1-5jw

St Thomas More is an outstanding Catholic primary school, with happy, caring school and polite and well-behaved pupils.

We provide an engaging, creative, broad and balanced curriculum for our pupils.

The governors are seeking to appoint a class teacher who is an excellent classroom practitioner to help us continue to raise standards of achievement through a strong knowledge of pedagogy and an innovative

approach to teaching.

Applicants from all faiths or none are welcome.

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