Teaching Assistant

Abbey Meads Community Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN25 4GY

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2026

• Closing date

  15 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 June 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: SEND TA - 26.5 hours & MDSA - 4 hours
• Additional allowances:

  SEND TA - 26.5 hours & MDSA - 4 hours

Teaching Assistant job summary

The staff and governors of Abbey Meads Community Primary School are offering an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated team. We wish to appoint an outstanding SEND Teaching Assistant to support children across the school for the hours advertised. The successful candidate must be confident supporting children’s Early Learning and must have a PASS in GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent.

This is a temporary post working with children with SEND, both on a 1:1 basis and in small groups.

Come and join our friendly, supportive and inspirational team!
As part of The Blue Kite Academy Trust, we are a forward-thinking school where staff have fun alongside the children, plan work that excites them and their pupils and have the chance to take risks.
You will work with outstanding teachers who let their creativity guide them and have access to the latest technologies, which prepare children for life in the 21st century. We build memories that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
If you have high expectations, want the best for pupils and want to make a difference, and if you have a sense of humour and a sense of fun, then come and look around Abbey Meads. It might just be the place for you.
You will be working 30.5 hours per week, term-time only, excluding Teacher Development Days for the times stated above. This includes a paid 45 minute lunch duty and 45 minute unpaid period for your own lunch Monday to Thursday and a 1 hour lunch duty on Fridays with a 30 minute unpaid period for your own lunch.
Abbey Meads Community Primary School always has the welfare of children as its first priority, and our recruitment procedures include the gathering of information about candidates and their suitability to work with young people.

DBS clearances, online searches and references will be obtained prior to appointment.

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 Abbey Meads Community Primary School

• School type: Academies, Does not apply, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 444 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Abbey Meads Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/abbey-meads-community-primary-school

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