SEND Teaching Assistant

Cornerstone Academy Trust, Exeter, EX5 3JG

34 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

We are seeking to recruit a SEND Teaching Assistant to work within our modern, purpose-built Resource Base at Marpool Primary School in Exmouth. You will work as part of the Special Education Needs and Disability team to also support those children with specific needs within our other Exeter schools. 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.

Your Role

You will be based initially at Marpool Primary School, providing dedicated 1:1 support for children with complex and specific needs, and where needed, you will also provide SEND support in our other Exeter schools. Your work will be varied and impactful, focusing on both physical care and educational support. Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting individual children – delivering personalised care and learning support to help children access the curriculum and make excellent progress.
  
• Providing physical and intimate care – including physiotherapy routines, personal hygiene, toileting, feeding and drinking.
  
• Administering medicines — including injections where required, following training and care plans.
  
• Safely moving children – supporting children who use wheelchairs, with full training provided in safe handling.
  
• Delivering intervention programmes – including speech and language activities, phonics, and physiotherapy exercises.
  
• Supporting teaching staff – preparing learning environments, maintaining pupil records, liaising with parents, and completing administrative tasks.
  
• Using digital technologies – working with each child’s digital device to support learning and intervention programmes.
  
• Adapting the curriculum – working with teachers and the SENDCo to tailor learning experiences, including reading, PE, games, trips, residentials, mentoring and tutoring.
  
• Supporting wider school life – leading playtime activities and assisting with the family dining service where older children serve younger pupils.
  

Training for all specialist aspects of the role will be provided

What You’ll Bring

We are looking for someone who brings warmth, professionalism, and a commitment to helping children thrive. You will need:

• Experience working with children
  
• Relevant qualifications
  
• A caring and patient approach
  
• Willingness to undertake training
  
• Strong communication skills
  
• Digital confidence
  
• Teamwork and flexibility
  

Hours and Salary

• 8am-5pm x 5 days per week, 40 weeks per year (Term time + 10 days)
  
• The full-time equivalent salary for this role is in the region of £25081. However, the actual salary based on the hours and weeks worked will commence in the region of £25,194 per annum. 

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
  
• State-of-the-art IT equipment
  

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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

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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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