SEN Teaching Assistant
Fixed Term Contract 3rd September 2026 – 31st August 2027)
23.5 hours per week (5 mornings and 3 afternoons term time only including INSET days)
Point 5 – 6 FTE Salary £25,583.00 - £25,989.00
Actual Salary £14,326.48 - £14,553.84
The governors of St Mark’s Primary School wish to appoint an SEN Teaching Assistant. The role will involve supporting a child in receipt of additional SEN funding.
St Mark’s is a large 436 place primary school with approximately 400 pupils currently on roll. The school was graded as ‘good’ by Ofsted (January 2025) and had an overall judgment of ‘excellent’ in our SIAMS report in November 2022. St Mark’s is an academy school within the Bath and Wells Multi-Academy Trust.
The successful candidate will need to:
• be an excellent teaching assistant with proven high-quality experience who can help children access the curriculum
• be committed to providing high quality support within a learning environment in which each child has the opportunity to flourish
• be enthusiastic, flexible, hardworking and calm
• be able to demonstrate initiative
• be fully supportive of our core Christian values of hope, honesty, friendship, forgiveness and perseverance.
We can offer:
• highly motivated children
• a dedicated, hardworking, supportive and friendly staff team
• a well-resourced classroom and an extremely well-equipped school
Visits to the school are encouraged. If you would like to do this, please contact the school office to arrange a visit. Please also visit our school website to find out more about our school.
Benefits of working for the Bath & Wells MAT include; a generous pension scheme, enhanced sickness and parental benefits and a supportive working environment.
The Bath & Wells MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and all relevant pre-employment checks.
Closing date for applications: 9.00am Friday 19th June 2026
Interviews will take place: Thursday 25th June 2026
St Mark's Voluntary Aided Ecumenical CofE/Methodist Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.