Teaching Assistant - SEND (KS1/Lower KS2)
| Posting date: | 01 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £16,286 to £16,544 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 27.5 hours per week |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Morley St Botolph, Anglia, NR18 9TS |
| Company: | Diocese of Norwich St Benet's Multi Academy Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 58607838 |
Summary
Part of the Diocese of Norwich St Benets Multi-Academy Trust
Tel: 01953 602397
Email: morley@tacmor.stbenets.org
- Salary - Support Staff D, 5-6, £16,286 - £16,544 actual pa (£25,583 - £25,989 FTE)
- Fixed Term until July 2026
- Part Time
- 27.5 hours per week
- Term Time plus 1 week
- Required for January 2026
We are looking for an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant for SEND, who will provide personal care and learning support for our children in Morley Church of England Primary Academy.
The successful applicant will form part of our committed and hard-working staff team, working within classes to provide general teaching assistant support along with some 1:1 support for pupils with communication SEND needs within their class lessons.
We are ideally seeking someone with experience in supporting children both with learning and pastorally, as ELSA could form part of this role. The successful applicant will be a flexible, imaginative and creative person, with knowledge of learning in KS1/lower KS2 and providing individual support for children to enable them to access learning at their level.
Working Hours
The exact working pattern will be agreed with the successful candidate at interview but will fall within our academy hours of Monday to Friday.
For more information about this role, including the job description and person specification, please read the attached Recruitment Pack available from ‘Attachments’.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to book an appointment or speak with the Headteacher at Morley - morley@tacmor.stbenets.org
How to apply
For more information about this role, including the job description and person specification, please read the attached Recruitment Pack available from ‘Attachments’.
To complete our online application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, and you will be directed to apply through our Applicant Tracking System. If you do not already have one, you will need to create a ‘Teacher Booker’ account.
References may be requested prior to interview and may be contacted on receipt of your application form.
Within the Trust we use AI to help review applications. If we spot that AI has been used in a misleading way, such as copying unedited AI created answers, exaggerating previous job experience, or pretending to be someone else, we may choose to reject the application without feedback.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if sufficient applications have been received.
Closing date: 11 December 2025, 3pm
Interview date: 15 December 2025
St Benets Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to full safeguarding checks as well as satisfactory references.
The Trust's safeguarding policy can be found on our website.
This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Tel: 01953 602397
Email: morley@tacmor.stbenets.org
- Salary - Support Staff D, 5-6, £16,286 - £16,544 actual pa (£25,583 - £25,989 FTE)
- Fixed Term until July 2026
- Part Time
- 27.5 hours per week
- Term Time plus 1 week
- Required for January 2026
We are looking for an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant for SEND, who will provide personal care and learning support for our children in Morley Church of England Primary Academy.
The successful applicant will form part of our committed and hard-working staff team, working within classes to provide general teaching assistant support along with some 1:1 support for pupils with communication SEND needs within their class lessons.
We are ideally seeking someone with experience in supporting children both with learning and pastorally, as ELSA could form part of this role. The successful applicant will be a flexible, imaginative and creative person, with knowledge of learning in KS1/lower KS2 and providing individual support for children to enable them to access learning at their level.
Working Hours
The exact working pattern will be agreed with the successful candidate at interview but will fall within our academy hours of Monday to Friday.
For more information about this role, including the job description and person specification, please read the attached Recruitment Pack available from ‘Attachments’.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to book an appointment or speak with the Headteacher at Morley - morley@tacmor.stbenets.org
How to apply
For more information about this role, including the job description and person specification, please read the attached Recruitment Pack available from ‘Attachments’.
To complete our online application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, and you will be directed to apply through our Applicant Tracking System. If you do not already have one, you will need to create a ‘Teacher Booker’ account.
References may be requested prior to interview and may be contacted on receipt of your application form.
Within the Trust we use AI to help review applications. If we spot that AI has been used in a misleading way, such as copying unedited AI created answers, exaggerating previous job experience, or pretending to be someone else, we may choose to reject the application without feedback.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if sufficient applications have been received.
Closing date: 11 December 2025, 3pm
Interview date: 15 December 2025
St Benets Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to full safeguarding checks as well as satisfactory references.
The Trust's safeguarding policy can be found on our website.
This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.