Specialist SEND Teaching Assistant
Barton Park Primary School, Oxford, OX3 9WNThis job expired on 1 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
1 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,599.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE) actual salary £23,093 to £25,520 - term time only plus 3 inset days
Specialist SEND Teaching Assistant job summary
Specialist SEND Teaching Assistant
Barton Park Primary School
OX3 9WN
Grade 8, 32.5 hours per week, permanent role, start September 2025.
Are you an excellent, caring and inclusive teaching assistant, ready for the next step in your career development? We are looking for an experienced professional to work alongside the class teacher to co-create and run learning activities for children with a range of SEND needs. In the first instance this group will be within KS1 or the early years but this may change over time. You will have proven experience in using your own initiative to develop learning activities for children in your care and some experience in using assessment to plot development and plan new learning. You will be experienced with children from birth - 5 and have a good knowledge of how children develop and learn. You will work as part of a team, led by the Early Years Lead, within the Early Years environment. At times, you will lead learning in small groups in one of our two classrooms. You will have access to relevant training and support to succeed in this important role. This is a part time (Mon-Fri, 8:15 -15:15), permanent post at grade 8.
What skills / experience are required?
Experience of leading learning with preschool and/or reception aged children.
Experience of assessing progress towards developmental goals.
Understanding of the importance of inclusion for all.
A recognised TA qualification such as NVQ 2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualifications is desirable.
Patience and a non judgemental attitude.
A flexible approach to your work and excellent team working skills.
A good understanding of how children learn.
A problem solver and team-player who will contribute positively to our small staff team.
Good interpersonal skills, to support positive relationships with all, including parents/carers.
Good level of written English, to support planning, assessment and work with multi agencies.
A desire to further your own professional development through targeted training to support the needs of children in your care.
Knowledge and compliance with policies and procedures relevant to child protection and health and safety.
What we can offer
Our school is new and growing each year. It is popular within our local community: our nursery, reception and KS1 classes are oversubscribed and have waiting lists. Parents speak highly of the opportunities we provide the children and our wonderful new facilities. We have developed a forest school site locally, and have an emergent orchard and wildlife area onsite, as well as a fabulous outdoor EYFS area, including a kitchen garden. Our 6 values are embedded in all we do and our children are welcoming and keen to learn. You would join a small, motivated and dedicated team of professionals, serving a newly opened school at the heart of a growing community.
How to apply / closing date / where to find further details
NB. Online applications through MyNewTerm
Closing Date for applications: 1 July at 9am
Shortlisting: 2 July 2025
Interviews: 7 July 2025
Visits to the school are positively encouraged. If you wish to find out more about our school or this role, you are invited to contact the Headteacher for a confidential discussion and/or tour of the school. Please do so via our office: office@bartonparkprimary.org / 01865 415800
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This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
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Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.
About Barton Park Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 179 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Barton Park Primary School website
Barton Park School is a new primary school, including a nursery, on the Barton Park Housing Development situated on the outskirts of the City of Oxford. Our school opened in September 2020 to children in reception and a mixed years 1 & 2 class. The school will grow over the coming years with a final capacity of 315, with a potential to expand further to 420, subject to community demand.
Our place within the heart of a new and developing community, with easy walking, cycle and bus routes, is a perfect location for families and staff alike. Our lovely new building and the fantastic facilities available on site, along with our neighbouring sports pavilion, make for a very special place for children to learn and flourish - and for teaching staff to teach.
We have high aspirations for all our children. Our curriculum is designed to provide children with high quality, rigorous and engaging learning opportunities. Enquiry and creativity are central to our learning, and these principles are underpinned by a solid foundation in the key skills. We aim to build on each child’s natural curiosity and help them become enquiring, resilient and confident learners, able to communicate their ideas to both peers and adults. Quality teaching, targeted support and enriching, open-ended learning opportunities - alongside well planned indoor and outdoor environments - allow all children to develop their thinking skills, independence and individual talents.
Our six school values were chosen in collaboration with the school community: respect, kindness, equality, independence, perseverance, curiosity. It is important to us that these values reflect both emotional and intellectual growth and that they can be embraced by everyone within our diverse community.
Barton Park is committed to offering a variety of extra-curricular activities after school and developing these opportunities as we grow. Our children already enjoy access to dance, sports, art and music clubs, led by experts and have had the chance to perform on the stage at Pegasus Theatre and The Town Hall. Such experiences are key to fostering confidence and self-belief, as well as extending horizons and understanding of others.
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