Teaching Assistant / Learning Support Assistant - SEN
Watling View School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 2NU20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
4 January 2026 at 11pm
Date listed
15 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,345.00 - £18,478.00 Annually (FTE) H3 - H4 Depending on experience and qualifications
Teaching Assistant / Learning Support Assistant - SEN job summary
For ASAP, we are looking to appoint energetic, enthusiastic Teaching Assistants to work with our amazing pupils who have severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and Autism. Previous experience with special needs children would be an advantage. We may close this advert early for the right applicants.
H3 - H4 depending on qualifications and experience (from £13.26 per hour). FTE salary is £25,583 - £27,254. Pro rata salary for term time only is £17,345 - £18,478.
30 hours per week, 38 weeks of the year (school term time only)
9.00am to 3.30pm, except each Wednesday when all staff work until 4.45pm for training and meetings time
We are proud of our:
Extraordinary pupils
Innovative, dedicated staff
Excellent support and encouragement from Governors and the Senior Leadership Team
Varied and superb quality professional development (CPD)
School community that continually strives to improve
Ethos of focusing on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all pupils and staff
We will offer you:
A new starter induction programme
Membership to Herts Rewards, our employee benefits scheme including discounts and cashback for high street shops and online shopping
Subscription to our comprehensive Healthcare and Wellbeing package
A varied and ongoing professional development programme (CPD)
Extensive sick pay from the 1st day of absence
Generous pension provision
Various staff social events during the academic year
Optional Childcare Vouchers scheme
Opportunity to earn overtime for working at our after school clubs
Annual appraisal programme
Annual Occasional Day
Free on-site car park
Watling View is a Good School (Ofsted, Apr 2025), catering for the needs of children and young people with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties (2 to 19 years in age). A significant number of our pupils have autism. We aim to develop and enhance the potential of our pupils through an ethos and philosophy which emphasises that we are all of equal value as members of an interdependent supportive community.
Watling View is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to satisfactory clearance of enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, including the barred lists, as well as all other pre-appointment checks in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (2025).
Please do not send CV’s as only completed application forms will be considered.
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.
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 Watling View School
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 111 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Watling View School website
Watling View School is a maintained special school in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The school caters for up to 92 pupils, from 2-19 years, with a wide range of complex and profound learning difficulties. These include severe autism, complex medical conditions, physical and mobility difficulties, as well as severe developmental delay.
We are passionate about our vision, which guides us in all that we do for our pupils. "Watling View - Be kind, Be responsible, Be the Best You Can"
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