SEND Specialist Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 04 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 January 2026 |
| Location: | Oldham, Not recorded, OL4 1RR |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | f9ee2703-ebda-4a91-98ab-7a584c3fbeae |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
• Have experience of working with children in an educational settingwhohave complexindividualSENDneeds in a Teaching Assistant capacity or equivalent.
• Have an NVQ3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualificationas per the EYFS framework requirementsCheck early years qualifications - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
• Have specialist training or experience in a key area of Special Educational Needs such as Social,emotionaland mental health; Communication and interaction; Cognition and learning; Sensory and/or physical.
• Have experience in working with children in the primary age range
• Have the ability tounderstand and develop theappropriate interventionsthat enable children to meet their EHC outcomes or personal targets.
• Have the ability toprovide 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, voluntarygroupsand service providers.
• Support an outreach provision offerwithin the academy’s mainstream provision.
What the school offers its staff
As a Trust we are working to our commitment within the strategic plan to develop specialist provision through the Inclusion Hub model. This is to enable an integrated offer for those children who need it most and to provide families with greater choice for their child’s education. The successful candidate will work as part of the Inclusion Service team and will be line managed on a daily basis by the Trust Leader for SEND .
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 settingwhohave complexindividualSENDneeds in a Teaching Assistant capacity or equivalent.
• Have an NVQ3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualificationas per the EYFS framework requirementsCheck early years qualifications - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
• Have specialist training or experience in a key area of Special Educational Needs such as Social,emotionaland mental health; Communication and interaction; Cognition and learning; Sensory and/or physical.
• Have experience in working with children in the primary age range
• Have the ability tounderstand and develop theappropriate interventionsthat enable children to meet their EHC outcomes or personal targets.
• Have the ability toprovide 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, voluntarygroupsand service providers.
• Support an outreach provision offerwithin the academy’s mainstream provision.
What the school offers its staff
As a Trust we are working to our commitment within the strategic plan to develop specialist provision through the Inclusion Hub model. This is to enable an integrated offer for those children who need it most and to provide families with greater choice for their child’s education. The successful candidate will work as part of the Inclusion Service team and will be line managed on a daily basis by the Trust Leader for SEND .
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.