SEND Teaching Assistant

Cornerstone Academy Trust, Exeter, EX5 3JG

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 September 2026

• Closing date

  30 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,194 per annum

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

An opportunity has arisen whereby we are looking to appoint a dedicated and professional SEND Teaching Assistant to start in September. You will work as part of the Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) team to support those children with specific needs. You will need to be able to demonstrate an excellent level of understanding of children will specific needs (both mental and physical) and how they can be best supported to ensure they thrive in mainstream education. You will be working within a busy and dynamic teaching environment and will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive and supportive role model. 

Within this role, you will provide dedicated 1:1 support for children with complex and specific needs. Your role will be varied but will require you to deliver both physical care and educational support to individual children. This may include intimate care with physiotherapy, personal hygiene and toileting needs and help with feeding and drinking. Where required you will need to be responsible for the administration of medicines or injections. There is also a need for you to safely move children from their wheelchair. There will be training provide to ensure safe handling and moving children, around implementing the care plans, delivering physiotherapy exercises, with speech and language and phonics programmes.  

You will also assist the teaching staff in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with parents, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teaching staff. Every child has their own digital device, and you will be required to use digital technologies and software to support as part of the different intervention programmes that you will be part of the delivery. Good experience of working with children and relevant qualifications are required. 

The school offers an exciting and enriched curriculum through a wide range of activities, both within the classroom but also through the wider environment. Whilst your primary focus will be on supporting individual children to be able to access this curriculum to ensure that they make excellent progress. This will involve you working with teachers and the SENDCo to adapt the curriculum the broad and balanced curriculum offer to meet the individual needs including the teaching of reading, involvement in PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of these individual children. We provide a full programme of extra-curricular activities, outdoor learning programmes, sporting opportunities, dedicated art and science rooms, a library service and 1:1 digital device for every pupil. 

You will also be involved in leading playtime activities with children and supporting within the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time. 

What we offer:

• A Salary of £25,081 FTE | Actual Salary of £25,194 (40 weeks) 
• Hours are 8am – 5pm, Monday – Friday, 40 weeks per year (Term time + 10 days)  

Perks

• Heavily discounted childcare
• Health and cycle-to-work schemes
• Generous pension scheme
• Subsided meals and from our in-house chefs
• Free tea and coffee
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

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Visits to the schools are welcome by prior arrangement. 

We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process. 

Closing date: 30th June 2026  

Interviews may happen as we receive suitable applications 

We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020).  This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for all our posts. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Cornerstone Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Cornerstone Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cornerstone-academy-trust

A multi academy trust, based in Exeter, made up of seven primary schools.

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