Teaching Assistant for SEND

The Misbourne School, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 0BN

9 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  3 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Bucks Pay Range 2
• Additional allowances:

  Bucks Pay Range 2

Teaching Assistant for SEND job summary

Would you like a job which fits within the school day?

Would you enjoy helping young people achieve their potential?

Do you want to work as part of a caring, flexible team?

Working as a Teaching Assistant may be the role for you. We can offer you a high degree of flexibility around working days/ hours and working during term-time only. This is a fulfilling role where you get to make a very real difference to the lives of individual students. Other benefits include comprehensive training, a pension scheme, a two week October half term, access to The Misbourne's state-of-the-art fitness suite and on-site parking.

We are seeking individuals to join our committed team of Teaching Assistants to help our young people reach their full potential. You will be part of our specialist SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) team, which is dedicated to delivering the correct support to individual students. SEND students are at the heart of our academy and this role is integral to helping some of our most vulnerable students to succeed. This could be support in lessons or working 1:1 on targeted areas of support.

You do not need previous experience in this role and comprehensive training will be provided.

However, the following skills will be beneficial:

• A passion for the importance of learning

• Enthusiasm for working with young people to help them succeed

• The ability to inspire and be creative

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working collaboratively with subject teachers to ensure students’ progress in individual subjects

• Acting as a positive role model both socially and academically

• Helping to foster and develop positive relationships with staff and peers

• Being flexible to meet the dynamic needs of the SEND department on a daily basis

• Identifying personal training needs and attending appropriate internal and external training

• Being involved in maintaining records, undertaking assessment and evaluating identified students’ needs

• Ensuring inclusive practice and equality of opportunity for all

We recognise the vital importance of support staff at The Misbourne. Professional development is a priority and we provide opportunities for skill development and further responsibility. Would you like to make a difference to the outcomes and life chances of young people? If so, you could become part of our dedicated team.

About The Misbourne:

The Misbourne is an 11-18 mixed school single-academy trust in the picturesque village of Great Missenden in the heart of the Chilterns. We have over 1100 students on roll, including a successful and growing Sixth Form. We are proudly non-selective and inclusive, ensuring that we live and breathe our values: we are a community that values learning, promotes kindness and strives for excellence in all we do. We are the Lead School for Careers in Bucks.

Our staff tell us they genuinely feel like part of a team; a team who are striving to help each student flourish both academically and personally. As our greatest asset, we place great emphasis on staff wellbeing evidenced in our Wellbeing Charter.

Excerpts from our successful 2022 Ofsted inspection include:

Pupils told inspectors that the clear and fair behaviour system helps them to behave well

Relationships between staff and pupils are strong

Pupils’ conduct around the school is orderly and calm

Pastoral care puts the child at the heart of everything the school does

We can offer you:

An academy that puts wellbeing at the top of their priorities, evidenced by our Wellbeing Charter e.g. we support the principle of 1265 directed time for teaching staff

Students who are a pleasure to work with

Great training and development opportunities

An experienced, friendly and collaborative team of staff

An annual personal ‘Headspace Day’, taken in term time

A two-week October half-term

A centralised behaviour system with visible and supportive leadership

Free access to our own fully-fitted gym (subject to opening hours)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free on-site parking

We would be delighted to invite prospective applicants to visit our school and experience first-hand what makes The Misbourne such a great place to work. To book your school visit please email recruitment@themisbourne.co.uk

The Misbourne reserves the right to close and shortlist early, therefore early applications are encouraged. Please note we undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence.

The Misbourne is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An offer of appointment is subject to satisfactory references (sought for all shortlisted candidates ahead of interview), DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Enhanced Disclosure and medical clearance.

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

The Misbourne is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An offer of appointment is subject to satisfactory references, DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Enhanced Disclosure and medical clearance

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 The Misbourne School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1126 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Misbourne School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-misbourne-school

We are an 11-18 Academy in the picturesque village of Great Missenden in the heart of the Chilterns. We have nearly 1100 students on roll including a successful and growing Sixth Form. Our staff tell us they genuinely feel like part of a team; a team who are striving to help each student flourish both academically and personally.

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