Teaching Assistant: Special Educational Needs

Icknield Primary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 2JB

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  1 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £16,197.49 Annually (Actual) NJC Level 3, Spine point 6-8

Teaching Assistant: Special Educational Needs job summary

About this Role

Full & Part time - Teaching Assistant with Special Educational Needs Experience (TA 2)

Fixed Term post - until 31st March 2026 (with potential to extend)

Term Time Only

NJC L3, Spine point 6 - £25,183 - £25,992 pro rata

Full time actual salary - £16,197.49 - £16,717.83

Do you have a passion for pupils ‘being the best they can be’?

Are you a Teaching Assistant with a commitment to supporting children with Special Educational Needs?

We have exciting opportunities for experienced Teaching Assistants to support children with Special Educational Needs at our school.

You will need to be able to support children with a range of needs including autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language difficulties and a range of communication needs. Liaison and building relationships with families is a key part of this role. You will attend to personal needs and implement related personal programmes, including hygiene, physical, first aid and medical matters. The school has an intimate care policy which fully supports staff who care for children with special educational needs. The ability to use your own initiative both working alone and as part of a friendly team is vital. The successful candidate will be supported with appropriate continuous professional development.

You must have fluent spoken and written English for this role.

The School is dedicated to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and expects all staff members to uphold this commitment. All applicants must be prepared to undergo child protection screening relevant to the position, which includes background checks with previous employers and the Criminal Records Bureau. Those who were born or have lived outside the UK may need to acquire additional overseas checks, which will be the responsibility of the candidate.

Please contact Keely Nugent, Special Educational Needs Leader with any questions on 01582 534000.

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 Icknield Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 607 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Icknield Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/icknield-primary-school-luton

Our Vision…

Confident, motivated and resilient learners who flourish into well-educated citizens.

Our Ethos…

As a school family, we strive to ensure that we care, co-operate

and communicate our ethos with all children and adults.

This provides the excellent foundation on which our school is built

and the guide for our development.

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