St Mark’s Primary School
St Marks Road
Weston-Super-Mare
North Somerset, BS22 7PU
SEN Teaching Assistant
Fixed Term Contract from as soon as possible – 31st August 2027
23.5 hours per week (5 mornings and 3 afternoons per week term time only including INSET days – more hours may become available in due course)
Scale Point 5 – 6 FTE Salary £26,427 - £26,847 FTE
£14,742 - £14,911 Actual Salary
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 390 pupils currently on roll. The school was graded as ‘good’ by Ofsted in January 2025 and had an overall judgement 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 by phone or email. 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 Multi Academy Trust 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: Friday 2nd October at 9.00am
Interview date: Thursday 8th October 2026
Commencement of post: As soon as possible
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.