Job Description

About The Role

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Working Hours: Part Time, 24.75 Hours per week

Number of Positions: 1

Start Date: 1st September 2025

Salary: 24,404 - 25,183 per annum

Under the guidance of teaching/senior support staff, provide support for pupils who require help to enable access to learning and to assist in the management of pupils


Provide specialist support in a specific area of curriculum and to supervise groups and occasionally whole classes for a session/lesson in the classroom or outside the main teaching area as required.

About the Candidate

The Governors of St John's Catholic Primary school are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, and hard working SEN Teaching assistant to join our friendly, dedicated and successful school team for September 2025.


Experience of working with children/young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and those with learning difficulties where appropriate.



The role holder must have a command of spoken English which is sufficient to enable the effective performance of the role, including the ability to speak with confidence and accuracy and the ability to listen and respond appropriately dependent on the audience.

About Us

We Offer:


A positive caring ethos based upon the values of the Catholic faith An enthusiastic, supportive and hard-working team of staff Highly motivated, friendly and polite children

To apply for this job role, please complete the application form and email it to:

recruitment@sjohnsrc.ne

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We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here



This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.



We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.