Individual Needs Assistant (Bonners CE Primary School)
Requirements
The successful candidate should be a motivated, energetic, and organized individual with a passion for supporting children. Experience or training in speech and language, sensory needs, or nurture support is considered desirable.
Job Description
Hours of work: 10 hours 20 minutes per week
Working pattern: Part-time, Term-time only (working for 39 weeks per year plus 6.05 weeks annual leave, which will increase after 5 years' continuous service)
(As the position is part-time/term-time only, the above salary will be pro rata)
Fixed term: Until July 2028
Closing date: 18 September 2026 Noon
For more information and to apply for the above post, please contact:
Bonners CE Primary School (London Rd, Maresfield, Uckfield TN22 2EG)
Phone: 01825 762381
Email: office@bonners.e-sussex.sch.uk
Website: https://www.bonners.e-sussex.sch.uk/
Please note, we do not accept CVs.
Our school requires an Individual Needs Assistant to work in a KS2 classroom from September 2026. The post is for 10 hours 20 mins per week 08.40 am to 15.20pm, 2 days a week (Thursday & Friday).
The salary will be Single Status Grade 3, point 7. This is a fixed term contract initially for one academic year and will be reviewed at the end of this period.
The successful candidate will be a motivated and energetic individual who has a calm, organised, patient and professional approach to working with children. We would like a cheerful, reliable, flexible and hardworking individual.
The successful candidate will:
have an interest and passion for supporting children;
have a commitment to inclusion for all within a mainstream setting;
believe in supporting every child to be the best that they can be
Speech and language
Sensory training desirable
Social skills/nurture training desirable
Interviews: Week of 21 September 2026
To apply for the position, or for further information about this varied and important job, please contact the school office on office@bonners.e-sussex.sch.uk or 01825 762381.
This post is covered by the Childcare Disqualification Regulations 2018.
The school will need to ensure that they are not knowingly employing a person who is disqualified under the 2018 Regulations in connection with relevant childcare provision. Accordingly, the successful candidate will be required to demonstrate to the school, by completing a self-declaration form as part of the pre-employment checks process, that they have not been disqualified under the 2018 Regulations.
If the preferred candidate is found to be disqualified under the 2018 Regulations, the offer of employment will be subject to the application by the preferred candidate to Ofsted for a waiver and the receipt of a waiver from Ofsted.