SEND Teaching Assistant

Glebe Farm School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK17 8XY

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  28 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  9 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Pay Scale E1, £27,711 per annum (FTE)

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

We are an AMBITIOUS school, with a strong sense

of BELONGING and CREATIVITY at the heart.

Glebe Farm School is a newly established, purpose-built all-through school located in the thriving community of Glebe Farm. Once fully operational, the school will accommodate up to 1,569 pupils. As part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning Multi-Academy Trust, we are committed to delivering an outstanding 21st-century curriculum to all our pupils.

We are seeking to appoint an inspirational SEND TA who is passionate about empowering pupils to exceed their aspirations. The ideal candidate will possess strong subject knowledge, engage in self-reflection, and excel in building positive professional relationships. They will also work closely with parents to ensure the best outcomes for their pupils.

This role offers significant opportunities for professional development and growth within a dynamic and expanding school environment.

The position is based at Glebe Farm School, Wavendon, Milton Keynes. For more information, please visit www.glebefarmschool.co.uk.

As part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning Multi Academy Trust, successful candidates will have full access to our staff benefits package, including a bespoke CPD package, enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave and Employee Assistance Programme. In addition, access to an Employee Benefits Scheme including discount on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and much more. 

Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safer recruitment practice and preemployment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. All vacancies are subject to enhanced DBS disclosures. We are an equal opportunities employer. 

Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

Our commitment to ensuring equal opportunity and lifelong development is showcased in our 1:1 iPad initiative for learners and teaching colleagues across the schools in our trust. By harnessing the power of technology and collaboration, we aim to reshape and rethink what it means to be a learner into this digital age, and you can play a role in shaping our curriculum offer by joining us on this journey.

Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow IFtL’s safeguarding policies and procedures, and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.

All school-based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check.

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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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Glebe Farm School

• School type: Free School, ages 2 to 16
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 552 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Glebe Farm School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/glebe-farm-school

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