SEND Teaching Assistant

St Laurence Catholic Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 2JX

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Autumn Term 2025

• Closing date

  2 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,404.00 Annually (FTE)

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

The children, staff and Trust of St Laurence Catholic Primary are looking for an excellent Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Teaching Assistant to join our team. You be supporting teaching and learning in our brand new Enhanced Resourced Base. You will work with pupils with significant SEMH needs, to make learning accessible, irresistible, inclusive and effective. We would also request you take on wider responsibilities within the school.

We welcome prospective candidates to visit our school, please contact office@stlaurence.cambs.sch.uk to arrange this.

You will need to:
- Have experience of working or volunteering with children, working with pupils with SEND, specifically SEMH needs
- Display patience, empathy and passion for supporting children with additional needs
- Have high expectations of pupil outcomes and progress
- Develop good relationships with pupils, parents and colleagues
- Be flexible, collaborative and supportive
- Be educated to GCSE or equivalent level, including at least a Grade 4 (previously Grade C) in English and Maths

We can offer:
- The opportunity to work with a passionate and dedicated specialist SEND Teacher
- Excellent OLOW Trust support and professional development opportunities
- An inclusive, welcoming Catholic ethos
- Supportive training
- An opportunity to shine
- Excellent resources, space and facilities

References will be requested prior to interview and may be contacted on receipt of your application form. Please contact us to discuss this further if you have any queries.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required.

This post will come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share
this commitment.

An enhanced DBS check will be required.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About St Laurence Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 239 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Laurence Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-laurence-catholic-primary-school-cambridge

St Laurence is a secure and happy community where children are encouraged to develop their many talents. Academic excellence for all children is one of our goals but we also seek to nurture the whole child and their special gifts which make each one unique. At St Laurence we aim to help children develop in their journey of faith in a positive learning environment. We place Jesus, His teachings and His values at the centre of all that we do.

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