SEND Teaching Assistant
Higham Ferrers Nursery and Infant School, Rushden, Northamptonshire, NN10 8BQ4 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 September 2026 at 5pm
Date listed
18 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £25,614.00 - £26,017.00 Annually (FTE)
SEND Teaching Assistant job summary
We are looking for a caring and committed SEND TA to join our school.
This position is to support a specific SEND pupil with limited speech and independence skills. Experience of working with children with significant speech, language and communication needs is desirable.
The successful applicant will support the pupil with their social and learning needs. This will include one to one work, small group work and supporting the pupil within the classroom environment, alongside their peers to develop their:
- Communication and social interaction skills
- Attention and concentration skills
- Early literacy and mathematical skills
The successful applicant should:
- Be prepared to support an intimate care plan
- Build positive relationships with pupils
- Value personal development as well as academic achievement
- Have good literacy and numeracy skills
- Demonstrate enthusiasm for all teaching and learning activities
- Have experience of working with pupils with a variety of needs
- Be paediatric first aid trained or be willing to complete the course.
In return, we can offer you a position in a great team of professionals who are dedicated to working to improve children’s opportunities. We are an inclusive and supportive community who will provide excellent opportunities to develop professionally.
The school is a well-resourced modern teaching and learning environment. Our dedicated leadership team is committed to continuous improvement. We work together with our partner schools in the Learning for Life Education Trust, a locally based multi-academy trust.
Hours of work: You will be required to work 31 hours and 15 minutes per week (8:40am - 3:25pm with 30 minutes for lunch), Monday-Friday, 39 weeks per year. Please note that holidays cannot be taken in term time, but an allowance for holiday entitlement is paid accordingly. We are open to job share arrangements for this position.
Salary: Grade D, Scale points 3-4, £25,614 - £26,017 FTE (Pro rata for part-time)
Contract: Named child contract. Your contract will be linked to the funding of the name child. When the child leaves the school, the contract will end.
The closing date for applications is 12:00pm Tuesday 29th September 2026
We will interview on receipt of successful applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy early.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Higham Ferrers Nursery and Infant School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 255 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Higham Ferrers Nursery and Infant School is located in the heart of the historic market town of Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire and is supported by a vibrant and supportive community.
We have an amazing team of staff, governors and parents, all of which work together to strive for the best possible education for the children, academically, socially and emotionally to ensure they reach their full potential. Our school has been recognised by Ofsted as a ‘Good’ school and has, once again, been accredited with the ‘Quality Mark’ for Literacy and Numeracy standards across the school.
We are also an ‘Attachment Aware’ school, where well-being, nurture and resilience are high on our agenda and where behaviours are taught to develop important life skills which support positive mental health. We firmly believe in fostering a safe, inclusive and engaging environment that supports each child’s individual growth and development. With a child-centred approach, we provide opportunities that spark the imagination, encourage curiosity, creativity and a love of learning to build confident, independent life-long learners.
Our core values: Care, Share, Enjoy, Respect and Friendship, underpin everything we do and are woven into the fabric of our curriculum and daily interactions, ensuring that are children not only reach their full potential academically, but also grow into empathetic and responsible individuals.
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