SEND Teaching Assistant

Old Moat; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading primary school in Manchester is seeking a passionate SEND Teaching Assistant to join their dedicated team. The role involves supporting children with special educational needs, fostering an inclusive and nurturing environment. Applicants must hold a minimum of NVQ Level 2 and demonstrate excellent behavioural management skills.

Benefits

Supportive and diverse Governing Board

Collaborative staff team with commitment to CPD

Qualifications

• Minimum NVQ Level 2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification.
• Experience of SEND across all Key Stages is desirable.
• Commitment to reflection, collaboration, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Support children with SEND across School.
• Work collaboratively within the SEND team.

Skills

Excellent Behaviour Management skills

Outstanding communication skills

Education

NVQ Level 2 for Teaching Assistants

Job description

About The Role

Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: Full Time, 35 hours per week
Number of Positions: 1
Qualifications Required:Minimum of NVQ Level 2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification and/or experience
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Salary: £24,404 per annum

Webster Primary School serves a rich and diverse community.It is a warm and welcoming school that is committed to the welfare and development of the pupils.All stakeholders have high expectations of academic achievement and behaviour.

An opportunity has arisen within our successful and highly skilled team.

We are looking for a consistently humble, resilient and enthusiastic SEND Teaching Assistant to join our SEND team and work across School supporting children with SEND.

If this is you, we’d like to hear from you.

About the Candidate

Experience of SEND across all Key Stage’s is desirable.

If you can answer “Yes” to the statements below we’d like to hear from you.

• Energetic
• Committed practitioner – with a strong team ethos
• Excellent Behaviour Management skills
• Passionate about education in an urban setting.
• High expectations and a moral commitment to learning, achievement and the creation of a rich learning environment.
• Minimum of NVQ Level 2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification and/or experience
• Possess an unswerving belief in reflection, collaboration, teamwork and feedback.
• Demonstrate outstanding communication skills and unlimited good humour.

About Us

We Offer:

• Diverse, welcoming, friendly, and enthusiastic pupils.
• A vibrant, forward-thinking school
• A warm and welcoming atmosphere, respectful pupils, and exemplary behaviour. (Ofsted)

• A single academy which is the only primary school in Manchester to hold the Arts Council of England Artsmark Platinum award (awarded twice), UNICEF RRSA Silver Award and the International Schools Award.
• A long-established commitment to the arts and an outward facing, rich curriculum, developed over many years, which fosters pupils’ creativity and love of learning. (Ofsted)
• Unique and embedded creative partnerships with organisations such as the Manchester Camerata orchestra, Z-Arts and the National Holocaust Centre and Museum.
• A highly collaborative staff team with a genuine commitment to peer support, CPD and career development.
• Buildings and a site which have undergone complete refurbishment to provide a modern, high-quality teaching and learning environment. This includes a new classroom block, library, Music Room and offices.
• Large, mature grounds with an all-weather pitch, eco-garden, forest school area and adventure play trails.
• Engaged, involved and ambitious parents and a supportive and diverse Governing Board.

To apply for this job role, please complete the application form and email it to:[e-mail]

Forms can also be downloaded from the school websitewww.webster.manchester.sch.uk

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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