SEN Teaching Assistant

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

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  To be confirmed

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  26 September 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) NJC K1-K7

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

We are seeking to appoint one permanent and one fixed term contract SEN experienced teaching assistants to work primarily in KS2 but also with knowledge of the Key Stage 1 curriculum. You will be supported by a SENDco and passionate team of teachers in an inclusive, engaging environment where children love to learn.

Badbury Park Primary School moved into a state-of-the-art new building in November 2020 .We are passionate about outdoor learning, education for social responsibility and forest school and we have wonderful green spaces to bring the curriculum alive. We have engaged, happy learners in beautiful, authentic learning spaces with carefully chosen versatile resources that provoke creativity, curiosity, and concentration. The school building is spacious, and purpose built with the latest technology including an immersive room, VR headsets, coding robots and a 3D printer.

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 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 job description/person specification 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 14th October 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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