Teaching Assistant and Lunchtime Supervisor
Sennen Community Primary Academy, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7AWThis job expired on 11 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 8.45am - 3.15pm Wednesday to Friday (open to discussion)
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1st Sept 2025 - 31st August 2026
Hourly rate
- TPAT Point 4 £12.26 ph (TA) and TPAT Point 1 £12.21 ph (LS)
What skills and experience we're looking for
About The Role:
Sennen School is looking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic SEN Teaching Assistant, with a Lunchtime Supervisor role, to join our team.
As a small school, we have a strong staff team who work well together and support each other, to create a warm and vibrant environment for the pupils and families of our school.
We want every child to embrace school life and enjoy every aspect of learning, exploring and growing; building strong foundations for them to spark their own interests and aspirations.
In this role you will support SEN learning within the classroom, which will primarily cater to their individual learning plan.
The role will be fixed-term until 31 August 2026, with the potential for this to be extended. The hours are 8.45am – 3.15pm, ideally Wednesday – Friday, but open to discussion, term-time only.
About You:
We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, hard-working and committed, with a great sense of humour, to join our team.
The successful candidate will have:
- experience of working with children;
- work one-to-one with children;
- have a desire to engage and inspire children with SEND;
- be effective at forming positive relationships with pupils, staff and parents;
- be able to follow instructions;
- have good communication and organisational skills;
- be a proactive and flexible member of the team, with a ‘can do’ attitude.
What the school offers its staff
Working for TPAT and Benefits
‘The Trust that Schools want to join’Ofsted - 2019
We are an inclusive and progressive Trust and believe that all children and young people should have the best possible life chances. If you share this belief, we would love you to work with us.
We care about our staff and value their skills, contribution and expertise. Our commitment to growing great people means that we support staff in their own professional growth and development and empower them through support and career opportunities. Whether you choose to work in one of our schools, or are based in our central team, you will thrive in a stimulating, friendly and diverse environment that nurtures talent and celebrates success.
If you choose to work for us, you will receive:
- A competitive salary
- National terms and conditions of employment and access to either Teachers Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye voucher scheme
- Access to CPD and career pathways to further develop your career
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides employees with free confidential advice and support on a variety of personal, family or workplace issueshhtps://www.employeeassistance.org.uk/
Further information about the job
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.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Sennen Community Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 94 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sennen Community Primary Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@tpacademytrust.org
Welcome to the First and Last School in the country. At Sennen School we believe that all children are unique individuals with a right to a safe and happy learning experience. We are driven by our belief that children are most likely to be happy and hence successful if they are given care, support and challenge in equal measure. Our team is united and dedicated in pursuing the best outcomes for all children at Sennen School. By 'best outcomes' we mean children who are positive and enthusiastic and ready for the challenges of life as well as being academically successful.
We aim to provide children with a well-rounded and ambitious curriculum. High academic standards and expectations run alongside creativity, inspiration and imagination. Through the school’s core learning behaviours of Resilience, Resourcefulness, Reflectiveness and Teamwork; children learn to: challenge themselves; demonstrate excellence; care for themselves and their community and have fun. Our curriculum draws upon the natural and historical resources in our community and the children’s experience to make it relevant and inspiring for them.
Arranging a visit to Sennen Community Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@tpacademytrust.org.
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