Specialist Education Support Assistant
Charfield Primary School, Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8TG12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
28 November 2025
Closing date
11 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- CSET 9 - £21,606 per annum (FTE £28,598 per annum)
Specialist Education Support Assistant job summary
Job title: Specialist Education Support Assistant
Salary: CSET 9 - Starting salary £21,606 per annum, term time only including INSET days with annual incremental progression within the grade range (FTE £28,598 per annum)
Hours: 32.50 per week
Working pattern: Monday to Friday (8.30am - 3.30pm)
Contract type: Fixed Term until 31 August 2026 pending a review of staffing arrangements
Location: Charfield Primary School
About the role
We are seeking a Specialist Education Support Assistant to join Charfield Primary School. Working under the direction of the SENDCo, you’ll deliver targeted interventions, support behaviour improvement, and help pupils overcome barriers to learning. This is a rewarding role where you’ll make a real difference to vulnerable learners, both in the classroom and through wider pastoral support.
About you
You’ll be enthusiastic, proactive and compassionate, with a good standard of education (including Maths and English GCSEs) and ideally a Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification. Skilled in building positive relationships, you’ll bring patience, resilience and excellent communication to the role. Most importantly, you’ll be a positive role model, committed to safeguarding and to helping every child achieve their potential.
About us
Charfield Primary is a small, friendly school set in beautiful grounds at the heart of Charfield Village. We aim to inspire a passion for lifelong learning, sparking curiosity, promoting creativity and nurturing developing interests so that children grow and thrive on their journey through school. Our curriculum places huge importance on reading and a love of books, while also exploring the ‘big ideas’ of diversity, society and exploration.
Our dedicated team of staff model themselves as lifelong learners, putting children’s best interests at the heart of everything they do. The school boasts wonderful facilities including a forest‑style school, large playing fields, climbing equipment and surrounding woodlands. We value enthusiasm, responsibility and resilience, alongside courage, collaboration and respect - qualities we expect our children and staff to demonstrate every day.
Charfield Primary is part of CSET, a family of schools with a shared ambition to provide ‘a great education for every child’. Our Headteacher leads both Charfield and Tortworth Primary Schools, and while your main base will be Charfield, on occasion you may be asked to support at Tortworth. This collaborative approach allows staff to share expertise and strengthen provision across both schools.
We can offer you:
- A beautiful school with fantastic grounds in which you can make your mark.
- A commitment to CPD and development of all staff, including collaborative support within the school and the Trust to allow all staff to thrive.
- A fantastic opportunity to develop your career in a friendly and supportive school.
- An ethos which embraces diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Commitment to inclusivity and fostering of diversity.
- Values, ethos and vision that are lived.
- An 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.
- Flu voucher
In order to apply for this role please complete an application form by Thursday 11th December 2025 at 9am. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 17th December 2025.
Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the process.
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. 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.
Join us in Providing a Great Education for Every Child
CSET is committed to equal opportunities and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and communities, as we recognise the importance and benefit this has for our pupils.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement:
CSET is 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 child protection screening appropriate to the post, which will include an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check for the children’s workforce and a Children’s Barred List 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 external website (opens in new tab)About Charfield Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 210 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Charfield Primary School website
Charfield Primary is a small and friendly school set in
beautiful grounds in the centre of Charfield village. The
school boasts wonderful facilities such as forest-skills, large
playing fields, climbing equipment and surrounding
woodlands.
Charfield aims to inspire, ignite and encourage a passion for
lifelong learning, sparking curiosity, promoting creativity and
nurturing developing passions to ensure that our children
grow and thrive on their journey through school. We
celebrate students' success, both academic and personal,
helping to develop self-confidence and self-esteem and are
passionate about developing each child as an individual.
We are proud of our school, we are proud of the exemplary
standards of behaviour, learning and achievement that we
all work together to achieve.
School location
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