Teaching Assistant - SEND room

Lakenham Primary School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2HL

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  9 July 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  24 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.84 - £13.05 per hour

Teaching Assistant - SEND room job summary

Tel: 01603 877780  

Email: office@lakenham.norfolk.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Cassandra Williams

• Salary – Scale D, £12.84 - £13.05 per hour
• Temporary for 1 year, with option to extend for the right person
• Part Time
• 32.5 hours per week
• Term Time plus 1 week
• Required for September 2025

We have a wonderful SEND room which has an outdoor space for children to run and thrive in. Would you like to become part of a team who are working with a very small group of lovely autistic young children who make you smile every day?

We require a Teaching Assistant with good communication skills, a welcoming and friendly approach with a high level of professionalism, while being able to relate well to both children and adults. This is an important post in the school and we want a reliable, well organised, good timekeeping, adaptable, caring person with, most importantly, a sense of humour. We would prefer to appoint an experienced Teaching Assistant. Candidate’s experience working with children within a class with continuous provision are encouraged to apply for this role, especially if you have worked in Nursery or Reception.

Lakenham Primary and Nursery School is a lovely school within easy reach of central Norwich. To be successful in gaining this post, we require someone who can become immersed in a ‘can-do culture’ where nothing is seen by pupils or teaching staff as a potential barrier to successful learning.

We can offer you an enthusiastic and committed team within a friendly school community, where we laugh every day!

If you are interested in this position and would like further information please discuss with Mrs Cassandra Williams, Headteacher. Visits are welcome.

How to apply

To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Interested applicants should return a completed application form and send to - office@lakenham.norfolk.sch.uk No CV’s will be considered.

Closing date:  9 July 2025, 9am

Shortlisting date: 9 July 2025

Interview date:  11 July 2025

Our school is strongly committed to the safeguarding of children and equality of opportunity. Any applicant must expect to comply fully with enhanced DBS checks. 

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.

Successful candidates for interview will have an internet search completed about them, as required in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Lakenham Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 432 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lakenham Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lakenham-primary-school

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