Specialist Education Support Assistant
Mangotsfield School, Bristol, BS16 9LH41 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
20 August 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- CSET 9 £27,711 FTE, £22,546 prorated
Specialist Education Support Assistant job summary
Job Title: Specialist Education Support
Hours: 35 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (TTO + INSET)
Contract type: Fixed term until 31/08/2026
Salary: CSET 9 £27,711 FTE, £22,546 prorated
About the role
Your key role will be planning and delivering targeted interventions to identified students who need additional support with maintaining high expectations and identifying personal aspirations. You will be a professional role model to the pupils, with the confidence to challenge and the creativity to motivate. Under the direction of the Special Education Needs & Disability Coordinator, work as part of a team to promote the emotional, physical and educational development of pupils, including those with special needs.
About you
Experience of working with children with Special Educational Needs is essential. You will be joining a passionate group of colleagues who strive to achieve the best outcomes for pupils in all aspects of their lives. You will understand what constitutes an effective intervention and will understand how to use data to inform the intent, implementation and impact of any intervention work. A good standard of Education, specifically in English and Maths, is essential.
you will be:
- An experienced, enthusiastic, proactive and resourceful person who is committed to securing high standards for all young people.
- You will have up to date knowledge and continuing professional development in any specialist area of responsibility
- You will be able to demonstrate commitment to recent training related to SEND interventions
- You will understand what constitutes an effective intervention and will understand how to use data to inform the intent, implementation and impact of any intervention work
- Someone with good communication and organisational skills that will include dealing with parents, outside agencies and the students.
- Someone with endless supplies of compassion and patience as well as the confidence to work with secondary students from KS3 to KS5
- Excellent organisation skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
About Us
Mangotsfield School has been recognised by Ofsted as a “rapidly improving, community focused, ambitious school.” In March 2022 we were awarded Good in all categories, a testament to the vision and dedication of the leadership and teaching body.
Mangotsfield School has a strong ethos built on our four values. In all aspects of school life we encourage students to love learning, embrace challenge, give and earn respect and grow our community. Our classrooms, our corridors, our systems are built on these values and this supports our culture where we can meet individual needs and close the gaps for our students.
Mangotsfield School is a local secondary school firmly rooted in, and proudly working within the community which it serves. The school is situated in pleasant semi-rural surroundings on the north-eastern outskirts of Bristol. Mangotsfield School became an academy as part of the Castle School Education Trust in September 2015 and works in partnership with Downend School to deliver 16-19 opportunities for all students. We are committed to the professional development of all staff.
We can offer you:
- Commitment to CPD and development of all staff
- Commitment to inclusivity and fostering of diversity
- Values and vision that are lived not laminated
- Open and honest culture
- Local Government pension with up to 19% Employer contributions
- Up to 30% discount with Microsoft & Dell
- Discounted gym membership
- Life Assurance - 3 x Death in Service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Dedicated counselling service
In order to apply for this role please complete an application form by 16th July, 9am. Interviews will take place on 26th June. If you are selected for an interview then please let us know at that stage if you require any adjustments as part of the process.
Further details and additional information about our school may be viewed on our website. If you would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact us to arrange that.
Please know that depending on the number of applications received we may decide to close the advert early. If you do not hear from us by a week after the closing date then please assume that you have not been shortlisted for an interview. If you have previously applied for this role there is no requirement to apply again, all applications will be reviewed. We wish you all the best in your future and ask that you join our E-Teach Talent Pool so as to keep up to date with all of our latest current opportunities.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Mangotsfield School and Castle School Education Trust (CSET) are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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 school website (opens in new tab)About Mangotsfield School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1119 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mangotsfield School website
Everything at Mangotsfield School is based around its school
values driven by Headteacher, Hetty Blackmore. Having first
joined the school as a newly qualified teacher when she was
23 years old and returned to lead it later in her career, she is
very proud of the journey the school is on.
Mangotsfield School is proud to serve its community and has
been part of the local community since 1957. They have just
celebrated being rated as a ‘Good’ school by Ofsted (visit
March 2022).
There are wonderful resources and facilities on site, allowing
students to embrace curricular and extra-curricular
challenges from DT, art, dance, drama and a climbing wall to
name a few. There is a lot of open space, which is green and
calm. And this sense of calm is echoed in the school itself.
The school has a proud sporting history and teams have
travelled as far as Wembley to take part in national
competitions. The school is also on a mission to broaden
horizons with many co-curricular trips taking place, such as a
Year 7 trip to Slimbridge Wetlands for art research and a
Year 8 trip to Tyntesfield House to explore gothic horror
within the English curriculum.
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