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The school is currently recruiting:

Teaching Assistant (1:1 SEN), required for September 2025

Grade 3, £24,027 to £24,404 (£12.45 to £12.65 pro rata)

Harlands Primary School is looking to recruit a 1:1 SEN Teaching Assistant to start in September 2025.  The post will be on a temporary basis as it will be related to a specific individual and will be for five full days per week.  

The hours of work for all our Teaching Assistants are normally between 8.20am-3.20pm.   Teaching Assistants are asked to carry out lunch duties with the children.  They will be able to take a break for their own lunch, usually between 1.00-1.30pm but the timing may vary, depending upon the needs of the child and the availability of additional support. 

The successful candidate will:

• Be enthusiastic, caring, well-motivated and adaptable
• Be patient, sensitive, firm and tactful
• Work well as part of a friendly and successful school team
• Maintain confidentiality
• Have some knowledge and/or experience of working with primary children
• Plan differentiated learning tasks to support pupils
• Show an active appreciation of the important role break-times and lunchtimes play in a child’s social and emotional development
• Be suitably qualified with good basic mathematical skills, and able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing in a variety of settings (GCSE Grade C+ or equivalent)
• An NVQ2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification is desirable, but not essential. (The roles available may provide a pathway to gaining a Teaching Assistant qualification in the future.)

Harlands Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service with barred lists check.  This will be done by means of applying for a DBS certificate through the Disclosure and Barring Service.  Disclosures include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings, as well as convictions, spent or unspent.

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. 

Please see the attached application form, job description/person specification.

For more information, please contact the Headteacher’s PA, Mrs K Michael to whom applications should be sent kmichael@harlandsedtrust.org.uk

Closing date:  Tuesday, 1 July 

Interview date:   Week beginning 8 July

Updated June 2025