SEND Specialist Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 22 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 November 2025 |
| Location: | Cheshire, Cheshire, SK14 1QD |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d9fb7b4f-a964-48f9-9268-c362cd450b34 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
• Have experience of working with children in an educational setting who may have different individual needs and learning styles in a Teaching Assistant capacity or equivalent.
• Have an NVQ3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification or experience
• Have specialist training or experience in a key area of Special Educational Needs such as Social, emotional and mental health; Communication and interaction; Cognition and learning; Sensory and/or physical.
• Have the ability to understand and develop the appropriate interventions that enable children to meet their EHC outcomes or personal targets.
• Have the ability to provide coaching and development to staff.
• Have a good understanding of safeguarding issues
• Work in partnership with teaching staff and other professionals as well as agencies, voluntary groups and service providers.
• Support an outreach provision offer.
What the school offers its staff
The Harmony Trust has the highest aspirations for its pupils, parents and staff members. Our vision is to provide an excellent primary education so that every academy is a ‘GreatPlace2Learn.’ Our aim is to ensure that children at our academies enjoy the best education from the early years to the end of the primary stage. Parents are very important to achieving this vision and we aim to work in partnership with them to ensure that all our children achieve our motto: ‘Believe Achieve Succeed’. We believe that school should be a place where every child makes progress in a safe and supportive environment. We believe in the importance of children developing well-being and high self-esteem if they are to learn and do well.
We also believe in The Harmony Trust being a ‘GreatPlace2Work’ where staff are supported to thrive by a trust that is committed to learning and education. We have a great team of people working in our Academies. We aim to retain them by investing in professional development, offering opportunities to work across the Trust ensuring Harmony is a great place to work.
The Harmony Trust was established in February 2014 and currently has 17 schools but looking to expand in the near future. This brings with it exciting opportunities for career progression and development for existing and future employees
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.
The successful candidate will:
• Have experience of working with children in an educational setting who may have different individual needs and learning styles in a Teaching Assistant capacity or equivalent.
• Have an NVQ3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification or experience
• Have specialist training or experience in a key area of Special Educational Needs such as Social, emotional and mental health; Communication and interaction; Cognition and learning; Sensory and/or physical.
• Have the ability to understand and develop the appropriate interventions that enable children to meet their EHC outcomes or personal targets.
• Have the ability to provide coaching and development to staff.
• Have a good understanding of safeguarding issues
• Work in partnership with teaching staff and other professionals as well as agencies, voluntary groups and service providers.
• Support an outreach provision offer.
What the school offers its staff
The Harmony Trust has the highest aspirations for its pupils, parents and staff members. Our vision is to provide an excellent primary education so that every academy is a ‘GreatPlace2Learn.’ Our aim is to ensure that children at our academies enjoy the best education from the early years to the end of the primary stage. Parents are very important to achieving this vision and we aim to work in partnership with them to ensure that all our children achieve our motto: ‘Believe Achieve Succeed’. We believe that school should be a place where every child makes progress in a safe and supportive environment. We believe in the importance of children developing well-being and high self-esteem if they are to learn and do well.
We also believe in The Harmony Trust being a ‘GreatPlace2Work’ where staff are supported to thrive by a trust that is committed to learning and education. We have a great team of people working in our Academies. We aim to retain them by investing in professional development, offering opportunities to work across the Trust ensuring Harmony is a great place to work.
The Harmony Trust was established in February 2014 and currently has 17 schools but looking to expand in the near future. This brings with it exciting opportunities for career progression and development for existing and future employees
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.