Teaching Assistant

Lordship Farm Primary School, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 3UF

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  28 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  24 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 - £25,583.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

We are recruiting for 2 Teaching Assistants to support pupils within the Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) for Speech, Language, Cognition and Autism, ensuring their educational, social, and emotional development is fully supported. Delivering high-quality support that promotes communication, understanding, independence, and inclusion, both within the base and in mainstream classes.

You will need to be an inclusive practitioner with a big heart and someone who is passionate about supporting every child to reach their potential, whatever their barrier may be. At Lordship relational practice is crucial and you will need to be someone who builds positive relationships with pupils, staff and parents.

Working at Lordship Farm, you'll become a valued part of our school community and able to play an active part in the life of the school.

The school has a strong belief in continued professional development and we support all staff with further learning through high quality continued professional development and tailored enrichment courses that follow your interests and support the development of expertise in different learning areas.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.

Requirements

Essential:

- Experience of supporting children with SEND, particularly SLCN, cognition, and/or autism.
- Understanding of the impact of speech, language, and communication difficulties on learning and development.
- Awareness of autism-friendly strategies and structured teaching approaches (e.g. TEACCH).
- Ability to build trusting relationships and communicate effectively with pupils who have diverse needs.
- Patience, empathy, and resilience when supporting pupils with additional needs.
- Competent literacy and numeracy (minimum Level 2 qualification or equivalent).
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

Desirable:

- Level 3 qualification in Supporting Teaching and Learning or equivalent.
- Training or experience in Makaton, SCERTS, or social communication programmes.
- Experience delivering speech and language therapy activities or cognitive development interventions.
- Knowledge of sensory integration and regulation strategies.
- First Aid and/or Therapeutic Thinking training

Start date: January 2026

Salary advertised is full time and will need to be pro-rata against the hours and weeks worked.

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting every child at Lordship Farm Primary School.

All posts advertised are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment check which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks including checks on public social media sites.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the school. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our pupils.

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 Lordship Farm Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 446 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lordship Farm Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lordship-farm-primary-school

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