SEN Teaching Assistant

Caroline Haslett Primary School, MILTON KEYNES, Buckinghamshire, MK5 7DF

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  2 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,992.00 - £27,269.00 Annually (FTE)

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

SEN Teaching Assistant

Salary MKC Grade D1 – D3

Monday – Friday 8.35am until 3.15pm term time (28.35 per week), plus five additional

INSET days.

"Teachers and teaching assistants work seamlessly together in well-informed partnerships. These help to ensure that all children get what they need to succeed. Disadvantaged children and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make strong progress in all aspects of their development because their needs are met very well”.

Ofsted 2019

This is an excellent opportunity to work in partnership with the teaching staff at CHPS. Our school is passionate and committed to ensuring that our curriculum is engaging and inspiring, with high levels of creativity and innovation in our teaching and learning across the school. Our ultimate aim is to provide children with access to a broad range of experiences and challenges so that every child reaches their full potential.

Our ideal candidate will be:

• Experienced in working with children with SEN, including autism.
• A person who loves working with children with special educational needs to help them reach their potential, in and out of the classroom.
• Able to understand the value of inclusion and the impact that this has on children with special needs.
• Able to provide the class teachers and SENDCo with regular feedback on pupil progress, attainment and barriers to learning.
• A team player who can work collaboratively within our Language Department with our SENDCo.
• Someone who can contribute to the planning of differentiated learning activities for key children.
• Able to deliver interventions and provision from EHC plans.
• Confident to collaborate with professionals and outside agencies.
• Committed to safeguarding our vulnerable children and promoting their welfare.

We can offer you

• A fantastic group of children with special needs who want to succeed.
• An attractive working environment with excellent facilities and supportive families;
• A committed, hardworking and supportive team;
• 100% focus on improving outcomes for the children in our school;

Visits to the school are warmly encouraged - please come and meet some of the staff and our children and see for yourself! Please contact Mrs Andrea Fergusson on 01908 231101 for a school tour or to make an appointment to meet with Mrs Helen Thomson (SENDCo). More information about the school can be found on our website www.haslett.org.uk.

Caroline Haslett Primary School is committed to safeguarding our children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will be subject to reference requests and Disclosure and Barring checks. All applicants must submit a completed application, strictly no CV’s will be accepted.

Commitment to safeguarding

Caroline Haslett Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. For all posts pre-employment checks will be carried out, references will be sought and successful candidates will need to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

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

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Caroline Haslett Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 417 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Caroline Haslett Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/caroline-haslett-primary-school

Caroline Haslett is a large school with a small school ethos, who was judged Outstanding in 2019. Our children join us in Foundation Stage aged 4 and leave us in Year 6, aged 11.

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