Teaching Assistant

Green Wrythe Primary School, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 1JP

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  30 October 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  15 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £23,309.51 - £25,031.97 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant job summary

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Support for Pupils

• Supervise and provide particular support for pupils, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities.

• Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour/Wellbeing Plans and Personal Care programmes.

• Establish constructive relationships with pupils and interact with them according to individual needs.

• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils.

• Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.

• Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.

• Assist pupils with personal hygiene, dressing, feeding, and medical/mobility needs, ensuring their dignity, comfort, and safety at all times.

Support for Teacher

• Create and maintain a structured, low-arousal, and predictable environment tailored to sensory needs, supporting the implementation of individual EHCP outcomes and visual structures

• Implement specialised, autism-specific strategies—in liaison with the teacher to facilitate communication, emotional regulation, and access to learning goals.

• Assist in planning differentiated learning activities and sensory diets that align with pupils' individual EHCP outcomes and personal interest profiles.

• Closely monitor pupils' responses, engagement, and sensory/emotional states, accurately recording progress against EHCP outcomes and tracking behavioral antecedents.

• Provide detailed feedback to teachers and specialists regarding pupil progress, sensory triggers, communication breakthroughs, and emerging challenge areas.

• Support co-regulation and proactive behavior management using positive behavior support plans, de-escalation strategies, and specialized framework techniques in line with setting policy.

• Assist with the collection of evidence for EHCP annual reviews and administer context-appropriate, adapted assessments that accurately reflect pupil understanding without causing undue anxiety.

Support for the Curriculum

• Deliver structured, individualised learning activities, adapting tasks dynamically in response to pupils' sensory, communication, and emotional regulation needs.

• Observing and tracking micro-steps of progress and providing detailed feedback to the class teacher.

• Integrate communication tools and devices into learning activities to maximise pupil independence.

• Prepare, adapt, and maintain specialised learning and sensory resources (including visual schedules, social stories, and tactile motivators) tailored to individual EHCP outcomes and personal interest profiles.

• Facilitate and model structured play and social interaction activities, supporting pupils to progress through stages of play (e.g., cause-and-effect, parallel play, turn-taking, and shared attention) while leveraging special interests to build social-communication skills.

Support for the School

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

• Be aware of and support differences and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.

• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.

• Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.

• Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.

• Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.

• Assist with the supervision of pupils out of lesson times, including before and after school and at lunchtime when required.

• Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher.

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

Green Wrythe Primary and Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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 Green Wrythe Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 268 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Green Wrythe Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/green-wrythe-primary-school-carshalton

Green Wrythe Primary is a very special school because it consists of two departments; Ark, which is the mainstream department and Rainbow, a highly specialised resource provision for children with autism.

We are a successful school at the heart of the community. We promote the well-being of everyone in a happy, vibrant, nurturing environment with high expectations for all and to 'Be the best we can be'.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged. For further informaton, please do not hesitate to contact the school office and/or visit the school's website. 

Green Wrythe Primary is part of the Greenshaw Learning Trust. Greenshaw Learning Trust recognises that our employees are our most important asset, and we are aware that the quality and commitment of our employees is critical to our success. We offer all our employees the following staff benefits:

• A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues
• Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
• Employer Contributions to Local Government or Teachers Pension Scheme
• Gym membership scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

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