SEND Teaching Assistant

We are a good school. In our recent OfSTED inspection our special educational needs provision was praised by inspectors for giving children great opportunities to learn together. Our inclusive culture, excellent identification processes and support mechanisms allows pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities to achieve well. We are recruiting for a person to join our SEND team.

We have a really dedicated and effective team of support staff led by our SENDCo. The team work closely with children with varying needs, supporting them to access learning in class and providing specific interventions such as Attention Autism, Identiplay and Language Link. We want people who are committed to ensuring that children access the curriculum as much as possible, who can support children to be independent within their learning and who will help children to be integrated into the classroom and the school. We are very clear that, whilst these children need support they also need time to learn and experience the school as any other child would.

You would be joining a supportive team in a school where we are constantly striving to improve all aspects of our provision. We try to give our staff different opportunities to work with different children, different classes and different teachers balancing this with the need for consistency for some of our SEND children.

Please visit our website for all related documentation. Please send completed applications along with a covering letter to Mrs. Karen Taylor, School Business Manager. Email: ktaylor@burwellvillage.cambs.sch.uk

Teaching Assistant (SEND)
30 hours per week, 38 weeks per year
Pay scale NJC 2025 Point 3 (£24,796 Annual FTE) Pro-rata to £17,072.37 Fixed term until August 2026. The role is reviewed annually in line with funding.
Monday – Friday between 08:30 – 15:30 (pattern to be agreed)
To start – Monday 3rd November 2025

Closing Date for Applications: Thursday 6th November 2025
Interview Dates: Monday 10th November 2025

Burwell Village College Primary School is committed to the highest standards of safeguarding and implements a rigorous and robust recruitment process that gathers and evaluates child protection-relevant evidence about candidates. All applicants are requested to read the Safeguarding Policy document. All posts are subject to satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check and provide evidence of proof of right to work in the UK.