Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant (1:1 Support)

Cabot Primary School, Bristol, Bristol, BS2 9JE

15 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  16 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  1 October 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: £13.26 - £13.47 Hourly NJC SCP 5 - 6

Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant (1:1 Support) job summary

We are seeking to recruit a SEN Teaching Assistant to support a Reception pupil with an EHCP. This is a fixed term position to support the child whilst they are a pupil at Cabot Primary School. Experience of working with children with Autism would be an advantage.

The successful candidate will be based in our Reception provision, working with a group of children with additional needs alongside three experienced TA’s. Within this setting, the children receive a skills-based curriculum to meet their targets.

This is an exciting position for someone who is passionate about supporting children with additional needs. If you are a team player who has a deep commitment to ensuring that all pupils flourish in their learning and as community members, we look forward to hearing from you.

Opportunity for growth, training and development will be provided, to enable both the pupil and the successful candidate to grow and succeed.

The post will include:

• Supporting students who have Special Educational Needs: cognition and learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties. This will involve working on a 1:1 basis but also supporting small groups of learners with a variety of complex needs.
• Supporting the classroom teacher with their responsibility for the development and education process by providing care and supervision to children including those who have special physical, emotional and educational needs.
• Helping to keep the children safe
• Promoting positive behaviour
• Developing and promoting positive relationships
• Supporting the development and effectiveness of work teams
• Reflecting on and developing practice
• Maintaining confidentiality at all times

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed, please contact Leanne Lewis in the school office.

Safeguarding Statement:

Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community. The aims of the Trust’s recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.

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 Cabot Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 197 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cabot Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cabot-primary-school-bristol

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