SEND Teaching Assistant
Victoria Park Primary School
Hours: 17.5 hours/week (Mon-Fri, 12:00pm – 3:30pm) term time only + INSET days
Salary: SCP 15-18: £24,790 - £25,584, pro rata
Start: 1st September 2025
Position: Fixed Term until 31st August 2026
About Us
Cathedral Schools Trust (CST) is a family of schools committed to inspiring learning both in and beyond the classroom. With a strong focus on music and the creative arts, we support every student and staff member in reaching their full potential. If you’re looking for a Trust that values creativity, growth, and meaningful learning, CST could be the perfect place for you.
We invite you to join our team at Victoria Park Primary School. We are an exciting school with children who are motivated and eager to learn. We are committed to making a positive difference to children’s lives and have a strong ethos of curiosity, kindness and respect.
SEND Teaching Assistant
About the Opportunity: We are looking for a creative, dedicated, and flexible SEND Teaching Assistants to join our supportive team. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people with additional needs.
About the Role: Working across a year group, you will be providing tailored support for pupils with special educational needs. Working closely with teachers, the SENDCo, and external professionals, you will help deliver, monitor, and review Learning Plans. Duties include supporting pupils’ academic, social, and emotional development, adapting resources, supervising during breaktimes, and being responsive to changing needs.
About You: We seek someone who is creative, resilient, flexible and positive, with a good understanding of how children with SEND learn. You must be able to form strong relationships, support inclusion and safeguarding, and lead small group activities. Experience working with children in an educational setting is essential.
Professional Development: We offer high-quality training in TA apprenticeships, safeguarding, SEND strategies (including Autism and SEMH), communication approaches (Makaton, PECS), and positive behaviour support (Team Teach). There are also opportunities for career progression.
If you are passionate about helping every child succeed, we would love to hear from you! If you are passionate about helping every child succeed, we would love to hear from you!
More information about the Trust, School and Role
● To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
● To find out more about Cathedral Schools Trust and Victoria Park Primary School, please read the attached Job Description or visit our website.
● Informal enquiries can be made via email to Kathryn Templar, School Business Manager.
● School visits will take place on Tuesday 13th May at 4pm, Thursday 15th May at 4pm, Tuesday 20th May 4pm and can be arranged via email to the Victoria Park Primary school office.
We can offer you
● Continuing Professional Development including a new
● Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
● Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
● Many of our schools are easily accessible using public transport. For staff members who drive, a number of our schools offer free onsite or nearby street parking.
● Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
● All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
How to apply …
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.
● Please complete our application form by Midnight on Sunday 1st June 2025.
● Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Monday 9th June 2025 at Victoria Park Primary School
● All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks including, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.