Midday Supervisory Assistant; MSA - SEN

Midday Supervisory Assistant (MSA) - SEN at Watling View School Job Details

• Job Reference: EDV/2026/WVS/47376
• Location:
  
  Watling View, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 2NU
• Contract Type:
  Permanent/Term Time Only
• Contract Term:
  Part-Time
• Salary: £12.85 Hourly
• Hours Per Week: 10
• Closing Date:
  Midnight, Fri 26th Jun, 2026
• Start Date:
  
  01/09/2026
• Positions Available: 1
• Interview Date(s): TBA

We require energetic and enthusiastic Midday Supervisory Assistants to work with children who have severe learning difficulties. This role involves helping them with eating programmes, personal care routines and supervising lunchtime play activities during lunch hour from 11.30am to 1.30pm, Monday to Friday term‑time only. Extra hours may be available through our bank staff.

Salaried from £12.85 per hour (pay rise pending). Previous experience with special needs children is an advantage but not essential.

• Extraordinary pupils
• Innovative, dedicated staff
• Excellent support and encouragement from Governors and the Senior Leadership Team
• Varied and superb quality professional development (CPD)
• School community that continually strives to improve
• Ethos of focusing on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all pupils and staff

• A new starter induction programme
• Membership to Herts Rewards, our employee benefits scheme including discounts and cashback for high street shops and online shopping
• Subscription to our comprehensive Healthcare and Wellbeing package
• A varied and ongoing professional development programme (CPD)
• Extensive sick pay from the 1st day of absence (after 6 months service)
• Generous pension provision
• Various staff social events during the academic year
• Optional Childcare Vouchers scheme
• Opportunity to earn overtime for working at our after school clubs
• Annual appraisal programme
• Annual Occasional Day
• Free on‑site car park

Watling View is a Good School (Ofsted, April 2025), catering for the needs of children and young people with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties (2 to 19 years in age). A significant number of our pupils have autism and one in five has Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. We aim to develop and enhance the potential of our pupils through an ethos and philosophy which emphasises that we are all of equal value as members of an interdependent supportive community.

Appointment to this post is subject to satisfactory clearance of enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, including the barred list, as well as all other pre‑appointment checks in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (2025).