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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    4 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    24 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time: 29.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 38 weeks per year.

Contract type

Fixed term - 1 year

Full-time equivalent salary

£27,729

Actual salary

£18,961

Pay scale

NJC Grade 4, Points 3-4

What skills and experience we're looking for

Valley Primary School is a medium sized primary school with approximately 450 pupils on roll aged 4-11. We are looking to recruit a small team to work with children with specific and complex learning needs.

Have you a passion for teaching children with SEND needs, know you can make a difference to their school life and enable them to access their learning by adapting for their needs?

The successful candidate will:

  • Have experience of working with primary children with a range of SEND needs
  • Understand the need for different teaching techniques and resources depending on the child’s needs
  • Deliver targeted interventions
  • Be able to work as a team member
  • Support children’s EHCP’s
  • Communicate well with children, parents/carers and members of the school community

This role will initially be for one academic year with a view to making it a permanent role

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

  • Friendly, supportive and enthusiastic staff who work as a team
  • Training and development based on individual needs
  • Opportunities to contribute to whole school and Trust development

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.

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About Valley Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
442 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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Phone number
020 8462 4927

School location

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