Teaching Assistant - SEND (Early Years/KS1)

Morley Church of England Primary Academy, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 9TS

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  11 December 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  1 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £16,286 - £16,544 actual pa

Teaching Assistant - SEND (Early Years/KS1) job summary

Part of the Diocese of Norwich St Benets Multi-Academy Trust

Tel: 01953 602397

Email: morley@tacmor.stbenets.org

• Salary - Support Staff D, 5-6, £16,286 - £16,544 actual pa (£25,583 - £25,989 FTE)
• Fixed Term until July 2026 
• Part Time
• 27.5 hours per week
• Term Time plus 1 week
• Required for January 2026

We are looking for an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant for SEND, who will provide personal care and learning support for our children in Morley Church of England Primary Academy.

The successful applicant will form part of our committed and hard-working staff team, working primarily with a small number of our children with SEND communication and language needs. As well as time integrated into our EYFS/Y1 class, some time each day will be to support those children in our new sensory room and specially equipped small ‘Acorns’ classroom. 

We are ideally seeking someone with SEND and Early Years experience, who is flexible, imaginative and creative, and skilled at supporting children’s pre-verbal communication through play, visuals and communication tools such as core boards.

Working Hours

The exact working pattern will be agreed with the successful candidate at interview but will fall within our academy hours of Monday to Friday.

For more information about this role, including the job description and person specification, please read the attached Recruitment Pack available from ‘Attachments’.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to book an appointment or speak with the Headteacher at Morley - morley@tacmor.stbenets.org 

How to apply

For more information about this role, including the job description and person specification, please read the attached Recruitment Pack available from ‘Attachments’.

To complete our online application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, and you will be directed to apply through our Applicant Tracking System. If you do not already have one, you will need to create a ‘Teacher Booker’ account.

References may be requested prior to interview and may be contacted on receipt of your application form. 

Within the Trust we use AI to help review applications. If we spot that AI has been used in a misleading way, such as copying unedited AI created answers, exaggerating previous job experience, or pretending to be someone else, we may choose to reject the application without feedback. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if sufficient applications have been received.

Closing date:  11 December 2025, 3pm

Interview date:   15 December 2025

St Benets Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to full safeguarding checks as well as satisfactory references.

The Trust's safeguarding policy can be found on our website.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. 

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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 Morley Church of England Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 128 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Morley Church of England Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/morley-church-of-england-primary-academy

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