SEND Teaching Assistant

Fulbridge Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 3JQ

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  21 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 November 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: £19,351.00 - £20,959.00 Annually (Actual)

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

SEND Teaching Assistant

Contract: Fixed Term until 31st August 2026

Hours: 32.5 per week, Term Time (190 Days)

Grade 6, Point 7-12

Actual Salary: £19,351 - £20,959

Location: Fulbridge Academy

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Fulbridge Academy for a SEND Teaching Assistant to join our team.

This role involves supporting children with additional needs to achieve their individual targets, both in the classroom and through small-group work in an SEND provision space. You will work closely with class teachers and the Inclusion Team to help pupils access the curriculum, develop independence, and make sustained progress.

At Fulbridge, our overriding aim is to improve the lives of children by enabling them to enjoy learning and fulfil their potential through the development of resilience, curiosity, knowledge and skills needed for success.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Dedicated, caring and patient

• Flexible and adaptable

• A good communicator and team player

• Able to build positive relationships with children and colleagues

Passionate about helping pupils with additional needs thrive

Main responsibilities include:

• Supporting pupils to access learning and meet their individual targets

• Delivering adapted learning activities to small groups or individuals

• Observing and recording progress to inform next steps

• Promoting inclusion, well-being and independence

• Prioritising safeguarding at all times

If you are passionate about making a difference, enjoy working as part of a supportive and dynamic team, and are committed to helping children with additional needs flourish, we would love to hear from you.

To achieve our dream, we need staff who have a passion for education and the need to make a difference.

Tours of the school are highly recommended. Please contact Jo Adcock at jo.adcock@fulbridgeacademy.co.uk or call 01733 566990 to arrange a visit.

We reserve the right to close the job advert early should we receive a high number of applications. The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the closing date.

The Four Cs MAT is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments involve regulated activity and are subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure and two successful references. Online searches are carried out on all shortlisted candidates.

If you have previously applied for this role in the last 6 months, please do not reapply.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young
people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Online searches are carried out on all shortlisted candidates.

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 Fulbridge Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 926 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Fulbridge Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/fulbridge-academy

At Fulbridge our overriding aim is to ensure that we improve the lives of the children by enabling them to enjoy learning and fulfil their potential by developing the resilience, curiosity, knowledge and skills required to be successful.
There is a moral purpose and underlying rationale to all we do:
● We ensure the curriculum is fit for purpose
● Our pedagogy gives children the best chances to succeed
● Staff have an excellent work life balance

At Fulbridge Academy we have designed an innovative, knowledge-rich curriculum that will prepare children for their future. It is informed by research and shaped to meet the needs of our local community. Our curriculum enables each child to develop an active mind, identity, heart and voice. The knowledge and skills of the curriculum are thoughtfully sequenced so that children remember what they learn and understand the key concepts of each subject.

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