SEND Teaching Assistant

Lynch Hill School Primary Academy, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 2AN

8 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  19 August 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  11 August 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: £17,257.45 Annually (Actual) £1,500 allowance

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

We are keen to appoint an enthusiastic SEND TA with excellent interpersonal skills, who displays initiative, is a team player and, ideally, someone who has experience of working with ASD pupils. The role involves working with Special Education Needs pupils to support their learning and their overall growth and development.

Your duties will be to support allocated pupils through their school day and also liaise with the SENDCo and class teachers with regard to students’ progress and wellbeing.

Lynch Hill School is a large primary academy in the west of Slough. We serve a diverse community which is very important to us with over 45 home languages represented within our school. Our school is an engaging, tolerant and respectful community that is empathetic to the needs of others.

We are a school of opportunities and we can offer:

Excellent CPD and career development which is available to all

Delightful children who are keen to learn and have high aspirations of themselves

A team of committed, talented and innovative staff

A consultative, supportive Leadership Team and Governing body

Excellent benefits including longer holidays, award days for attendance and more

Employees benefit from priority admission to the school for their children

We offer cost effective child care options for Nursery aged children

Please apply for this position by completing the application form which is available on the school website, www.lhsprimaryacademy.org.uk, including a statement outlining your experience and suitability for the post, and return this to Miss Billie Whitford, HR Assistant, via email: b.whitford@lhspa.org.uk

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.

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 Lynch Hill School Primary Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 832 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lynch Hill School Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lynch-hill-school-primary-academy

Lynch Hill School is a large primary academy in the west of Slough. We serve a diverse community which is very important to us with over 45 home languages represented within our school. Our school is an engaging, tolerant and respectful community that is empathetic to the needs of others. At Lynch Hill, we believe that every child should be equally valued, irrespective of abilities or individual differences and encouraged to develop to their full potential. We are committed to providing all children with an inclusive learning environment so that they can aim high, removing barriers to learning to enable them to work hard and ensure that their wellbeing is at the heart of all we do so that they know that we care deeply.

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