SEND Teaching Assistant Apprentice
Southwood Primary School, Dagenham, Essex, RM9 5LT6 days remaining to apply
Closing date
29 April 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 April 2026
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
Our vision at Southwood Primary School is to create ‘a community inspiring futures, nurturing growth, enabling every child to succeed’. 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’!
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Apply for this jobAbout Southwood Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 591 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
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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