Job description
- Hours: Monday – Friday 08:45 – 16:45, term time only
- Salary: Actual starting salary £24,636 (FTE £30,775)
- Start Date: 2nd November 2026
- We encourage early applications!
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with pupils both individually and in small groups supporting them to overcome barriers to learning, delivering teaching, providing positive behaviour support, and delivering other focused interventions.
- Work as part of a class team, under the direction of the class teacher and trans-disciplinary colleagues, to deliver effective and appropriate teaching, learning and behaviour support in all areas of school life
- Monitor and track progress, providing regular feedback as needed
- Foster a positive and inclusive learning environment
Qualifications and Skills:
- Relevant SEN experience as detailed in the person specification
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- A genuine commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs
For further information please download our recruitment pack attached which contains details of the job description and person specification.
If you are passionate about making a positive impact and have the drive to support our pupils, we would love to hear from you. Please send your completed application form and a cover letter detailing your experience and motivation for applying to recruitment@abbeyschool.com. Alternatively, application forms with covering letters can be sent by post to Abbey School, 12 Abbey Square, Chester, CH1 2HU. Please be advised that we only accept fully completed application forms.
Additional notes
The School will complete an online search for all shortlisted candidates. If any incidents or issues have happened that are publicly available online, the school may wish to explore this at interview.
Abbey School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Child safer recruitment procedures operate and the post is subject to references and an Enhanced DBS disclosure with barred list checks.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are ‘spent’ unless ‘protected’ under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, sex, pregnancy and maternity, marriage/civil partnerships, religion/belief, or sexual orientation.
Selection methods will be objective, promote equality of opportunity and guard against bias in line with the Equality and Diversity policy. The School will shortlist applicants based on the relevance and applicability of their professional attributes and personal qualities specified by the role. Essential and desirable qualities are published in the Person Specification for this role.
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