SEMH Specialist Resource Base Primary School Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 30 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Not recorded, EX5 3JG |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9be9375b-42a4-4b1b-99d6-2d128b7a0b45 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting time to join Cornerstone Academy Trust, with schools located in Exeter, East Devon, and the coastal town of Barnstaple in North Devon. Our Trust is nationally and internationally recognised for outstanding and innovative education. We lead several Department for Education ‘centres of excellence’ and support schools across the country with professional development and school improvement strategies
We are seeking to recruit a SEMH Specialist Teaching Assistant to work within our modern, purpose-built Resource Base to support our SEMH Specialist Teacher in providing a high quality, personalised curriculum to support children’s individual needs. With Marpool Primary School being a recent addition to our Trust, this is an exciting opportunity to help pioneer and bring about change and to provide an enhanced provision to those children with additional needs to help them to access their education in an inclusive and supportive way.
What you will bring;
• Relevant experience of working with children with SEMH, who is enthusiastic about supporting and educating primary aged children
• Passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role modeland to helpidentifyways in which to reintegrate them into the classroom
Your role;
• You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher
• You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall
• As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children
• Involved in leading playtime activities with children and supporting within the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time
What the school offers its staff
• Heavily discounted childcare
• Health and cycle-to-work schemes
• Generous pension scheme
• Subsidised meals from our in-house chefs
• Free tea and coffee
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• State-of-the-art IT equipment
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.
This is an exciting time to join Cornerstone Academy Trust, with schools located in Exeter, East Devon, and the coastal town of Barnstaple in North Devon. Our Trust is nationally and internationally recognised for outstanding and innovative education. We lead several Department for Education ‘centres of excellence’ and support schools across the country with professional development and school improvement strategies
We are seeking to recruit a SEMH Specialist Teaching Assistant to work within our modern, purpose-built Resource Base to support our SEMH Specialist Teacher in providing a high quality, personalised curriculum to support children’s individual needs. With Marpool Primary School being a recent addition to our Trust, this is an exciting opportunity to help pioneer and bring about change and to provide an enhanced provision to those children with additional needs to help them to access their education in an inclusive and supportive way.
What you will bring;
• Relevant experience of working with children with SEMH, who is enthusiastic about supporting and educating primary aged children
• Passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role modeland to helpidentifyways in which to reintegrate them into the classroom
Your role;
• You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher
• You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall
• As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children
• Involved in leading playtime activities with children and supporting within the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time
What the school offers its staff
• Heavily discounted childcare
• Health and cycle-to-work schemes
• Generous pension scheme
• Subsidised meals from our in-house chefs
• Free tea and coffee
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• State-of-the-art IT equipment
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.