SEND Teaching Assistant

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

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Jan 2026

• Closing date

  17 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: MKC scale B5 - FTE: £25,583.23
• Additional allowances:

  MKC scale B5 - FTE: £25,583.23

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

Our Mission

At Moorland Primary School, we are determined to give our children every chance to realise their potential. We have high aspirations for our children and want to equip them with the confidence, resilience and a passion for learning. We strive to transform the future for our children and are committed to give every young person the very best start so that every child leaves Moorland Primary school excited about their next stages of learning and determined to succeed.

Job Context

Moorland Primary school is situated in a significantly deprived area where 58% of pupils receive pupil premium. SEND is well above national with Communication and Interaction and SEMH being our highest needs. Poor attendance and lateness remain a barrier for a small group of vulnerable pupils. However, we work tirelessly to improve this.

Many of our pupils join us significantly below age-related expectations, often facing complex barriers to learning and wellbeing. The progress they make is the result of a whole-school commitment to high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment, supported by a dedicated team of professionals. At the heart of this is our SEND Teaching Assistants, whose role is absolutely pivotal. They work in close partnership with teachers, leaders, and our wellbeing team to deliver targeted interventions, adapt learning experiences, and provide emotional and social support that enables every child to thrive. SEND TAs are champions for inclusion, ensuring that pupils with additional needs feel valued, understood, and empowered to achieve their full potential. Their impact goes far beyond academic progress—they help build confidence, resilience, and a sense of belonging for our most vulnerable learners.

If you have experience of working with pupils with SEND and plenty of energy and resilience we would love to meet you. If like us, you truly believe that ALL pupils can succeed, then we can offer you friendly, enthusiastic and curious children who really want to learn!

Our dedicated and hardworking team are looking for someone who can demonstrate the passion, warmth and positivity needed to help our children overcome barriers and reach their full potential. If you have excellent communication skills, a desire to connect with our school community alongside skills and knowledge to support learning we welcome your application.

We are proud of our nurturing ethos, which meets the individual needs of all our children and their families. We offer a friendly and supportive community, an attractive learning environment and a commitment to professional development.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Moorland Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 197 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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