1:1 Early Years Teaching Assistant

Badbury Park Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN3 6ER

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  21 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  4 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,926.00 - £26,422.00 Annually (FTE)

1:1 Early Years Teaching Assistant job summary

Are you kind, patient, and passionate about helping every child reach their full potential? We are looking for a dedicated and nurturing SEN Teaching Assistant to join our warm and inclusive team at Badbury Park Primary School, providing one-to-one support for a named child with additional needs. This is a wonderful opportunity to make a genuine difference — supporting a child’s learning, confidence and wellbeing each day.

As part of this role, you’ll work closely with the class teacher to deliver tailored learning and support activities that meet the child’s individual needs. You’ll help them engage in lessons, support physical needs and transitions, and build positive relationships with their peers. Working collaboratively with parents, teachers and external professionals, you’ll play an important role in creating a consistent and nurturing environment in which the child can thrive. Every small step forward will be a shared success, and your encouragement will make all the difference. You will receive training to help you feel confident and well-prepared in your role and be part of a friendly, supportive team that values collaboration, wellbeing and professional growth.

Our free school is part of The Blue Kite Academy Trust, a growing family of primary schools based in Swindon who offer excellent CPD and career opportunities, a competitive salary with scope for progression, a commitment to nationally agreed pay and terms, an excellent pension scheme, free car parking and free staff health and well-being support.

Badbury Park has a great staff team who are supportive, passionate, and caring. Our aim is to work collaboratively together to nurture and develop every child through carefully planned lessons. We believe in teaching skills, sharing knowledge, and building special memories that children will take with them through the rest of their lives.

The successful applicant will:

• Be passionate about inclusive practice
• Be empathetic in nature and maintain a calm approach
• Have experience of working in an Early Years setting and hold a Level 3 qualification or equivalent
• Have experience of zones of regulation
• Have experience of working with interventions
• Have a trauma informed approach to supporting children
• Be fun, creative and enthusiastic with a love for outdoor learning

Please see the person specification attached for more information

The hours of work will be Monday-Friday 08.30-3.15pm (31.25 paid hours per week) term time only plus teacher training days.

Applications should be submitted electronically by 21st November 2025, however we will review applications as they come in and may close this vacancy early, so please don’t delay your application.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Badbury Park Primary School

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 335 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Badbury Park Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/badbury-park-primary-school

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