SEND Teaching Assistant

Moorland Primary School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 4ND

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  30 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 June 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: £21,000.00 Annually (FTE)

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

Main purpose of the job

To provide learning, care and support for pupils with special educational needs (SEND). This will involve working with the teacher to plan and deliver activities and supporting pupils with routines, transitions and behaviour management.

Duties and responsibilities

Supporting Pupils Build positive relationships with pupils, promoting high self-esteem and independence

Adapt communication style to respond to pupils according to their individual needs

Support pupils with their social, emotional and mental health needs, escalating concerns where appropriate

Promote high standards of behaviour, responding to incidents in line with the school’s behaviour policy and guidelines on physical intervention

Assist with the development and delivery of individual education and support plans

Teaching and learning

Contribute to the planning of differentiated learning activities for individual or small groups of pupils with special educational needs (SEN), delivering activities inside or outside the classroom

Support the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aimed at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning

Use ICT skills to advance pupils’ learning

Through observations, provide regular feedback to teachers on pupil progress, attainment and barriers to learning

Support class teachers with maintaining good order and discipline among pupils, managing behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment

Monitor, record and report on progress and attainment

Contribute to the overall ethos, aims and work of the school

Commitment to safeguarding

Children have a right to be cared for and protected, protecting them is everyone’s responsibility. Here at Moorland Primary School we have a duty of care to ensure that all users of the school are kept safe from harm. We have an ethos in which children and adults can feel safe, are valued, respected, and listened to. We will never lose sight of the needs of individual children and the duty to take action to safeguard them.

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 Moorland Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 213 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Moorland Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/moorland-primary-school-mk6-4nd

We are a thriving primary school providing education for children aged 3 to 11 years old. We work closely with our local Family Centres and a range of other external agencies to ensure that we can support all our children and families as best as we can. We are a friendly, nurturing school and work in partnership with parents and carers to provide an excellent education in a secure, stimulating environment.

We truly believe that "Together we can"



We have developed seven core values for our Moorland community. These are our RESPECT Values of Resilience, Empathy, Self- Awareness, Passion, Excellence, Communication and Teamwork. We believe that a happy child is a successful one, so we are working hard to design a curriculum that is adventurous, challenging and enjoyable. We are committed to ensuring that every child feels valued and we will always aim to provide high quality learning opportunities to enable every child to succeed and become passionate and resilient learners.

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