SEND Teaching Assistant Vacancies x 2

Salary: Grade C, Full Time, Temporary.

Start Date: January 2026

Widey Court Primary School is looking to appoint two outstanding and highly motivated SEND Teaching Assistant’s to join our team in January 2026. The successful candidates should have experience working with children in a school environment. Experience working with children who have special needs would be an advantage.

As part of Connect Academy Trust, there may be the opportunity to work in any of our schools in the future. This post is initially situated at Widey Court Primary School.

You could be the person we appoint if you:

• Have a warm, caring, nurturing personality with a friendly disposition.
• Have an NVQ qualification (or working towards).
• Have excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
• Have high expectations of pupils’ learning and behaviour.
• Are enthusiastic, flexible and organised with excellent communication skills and initiative.
• Are able to develop positive relationships with children and parents.
• Are passionate about working with children and look forward to joining our friendly team.
• Are able to support pupils to develop independence, self-confidence and social interaction.
• Are able to develop positive behaviour strategies with children.
• Have experience or the ability to work with children with SEND, including Speech, language communication difficulties, ASD and Social & Emotional needs.

To help you achieve this, we can offer you:

• support to develop your skills through school-centred, multi academy trust wide and external continuing professional development and team work;
• wonderful staff and pupils who are keen to learn;
• a very dedicated team with a strong positive ethos;
• a well-resourced and highly professional school.

If you are interested, please complete an online application form from our website Job Search.

If you have any issues accessing the application, or if you have any questions, please contact Miss G. Dingley, School Operations Lead on 01752 773909 or gdingley@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk

Closing date: Tuesday 25th November 2025 @ 9:00am

Interviews: Monday 1st December 2025

An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required to be undertaken and an on-line check of publicly available information will be completed to assess the successful candidate’s suitability to work with children.