SEND Teaching Assistant

Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG22 8PS

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 June 2025

• Closing date

  18 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,656.00 - £24,404.00 Annually (FTE)

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

To work under the direct instruction of teaching/senior staff, to support access to learning for pupils and provide general support to the teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area, alongside a teacher/senior member of staff.

Your core duties will be:

Supervise pupils with SEND, ensuring their safety and ability to access learning activities and understand the information presented.

Aid the execution of education plans suitable to each pupils’ learning objectives.

Build a trusting relationship with all pupils and communicate according to their understanding.

Promote inclusion and acceptance, support diversity and ensure pupils have equal access to learning and development.

Promote class interaction and ensure pupils engage throughout the lessons.

Provide opportunities for developing independence.

Create a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment.

Assist with the display of pupils’ work and the planning of learning activities.

Undertake administrative tasks as needed.

Assist pupils with practical activities using a variety of teaching aids.

Under the guidance of teaching staff, provide feedback to pupils, parents and carers about their progress, achievements and any problems that may have arisen.

Promote good behaviour and encourage pupils to take accountability for their actions.

Prepare, maintain and use learning resources and assist pupils to use them.

Follow child protection, health, safety, security, confidentiality and data protection policies and procedures, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person.

Assist with pupil supervision, including before and after school and in break times.

Accompany teaching staff and pupils on school trips and after school activities, taking responsibility for a group of pupils under the teacher’s supervision when needed.

Assist with the supervision of pupils alongside other support staff during a class teachers’ absence.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 213 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bilsthorpe-flying-high-academy

Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy is set in beautiful countryside with acres of outdoor space, we are close to the Southwell trail as well as having a forest on our door step. We are at the heart of our community and enjoy being at the centre of community events. Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy has a fantastic and talented staff driven by a passion for educating our children.

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