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SEND Teaching Assistant Apprentice

Southwood Primary School, Dagenham, Essex, RM9 5LT

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 April 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: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Fixed term - 15-18 months
• Pay scale: Level 3 Apprentice

What skills and experience we're looking for

Southwood Primary School is on a journey to becoming a ‘great’ school, we are looking for the right individual to join our dynamic and forward-thinking Inclusion team, to work as a teaching assistant, with a specific responsibility for working with our high-needs pupils both within our mainstream classrooms and our additional needs provision: ‘The Den’.

We are looking for someone:

• who has GCSE English and Maths (or Level 2 equivalent) and is willing to undertake further training (Level 3 apprenticeship in supporting teaching and learning);

• who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work as a proactive member of our Inclusion Team;

• who has a passion for inclusion and will motivate and inspire all our children to achieve their potential;
• who has the ability to understand and nurture the individual needs of our pupils, families and the whole school community;
• who has experience of working with children with a range of multiple or complex needs, in a school or similar setting;
• who, with support from our SENCO, will analyse children’s learning, identify next steps and interact positively to ensure good progress;

For more information and an application form, please visit our website www.southwoodprimary.co.uk or contact the School Office (02082704915) to arrange a visit. Completed application forms should be emailed to jobs@southwood.bardaglea.org.uk or given into the School Office. We look forward to hearing from you.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• great children in an engaging and creative environment;
• a school that values and invests in CPD, giving opportunities to develop and progress;
• full support of the Senior Leadership Team to ‘be the best you can be’!

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

Please complete the online application.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Southwood Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 633 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southwood Primary School website
• Email address: jobs@southwood.bardaglea.org.uk
• Phone number: 02082704915
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southwood-primary-school

Arranging a visit to Southwood Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@southwood.bardaglea.org.uk.

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