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SEND Teaching Assistant

Harlington Lower School, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 6PD

This job expired on 7 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.45 - £12.65 Hourly Salary is term time only pro rata

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

SEND Teaching Assistant required for September 2025. 1.30pm to 3.30pm Monday to Friday term time only plus 5 INSET days

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, flexible and experienced SEND Teaching Assistant to work as part of our dedicated professional team. This role will involve working with a pupil with an EHCP to access teaching and learning experiences. This will involve both 1:1 work and working with small groups of children. The successful candidate will be expected to provide high quality care and education for all children who attend this values-based setting.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide high quality care and education for all children who attend this values based setting.

The successful applicants will need to demonstrate experience of working with children with special educational needs particularly experience with supporting children with ASD and or ADHD and have a commitment to promoting equality and diversity. The ideal candidate must be resilient, patient and have good communication skills.

They will be required to work as part of a team and use judgment and common sense. We can offer a warm, positive and caring ethos with values at the core of our school, a creative and inspiring curriculum with an exciting inside and outside learning environment, and excellent opportunities for CPD. Visits to the school are welcomed and encouraged.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Scheme.

CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools.

The Pyramid School Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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

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.

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About Harlington Lower School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 9
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 140 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 9
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Harlington Lower School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harlington-lower-school

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