Teaching Assistant – SEN Support
Wood Farm Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8QQ9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
4 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: Term time only 31.75 hours per week. 8:30 - 3:15, with a later finish at 4:00 one day a week (usually Monday)
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year (may extend)
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,404 - £24,790
Pay scale
- Grade 4
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for one or more patient, skilled, and hardworking people, to join us in our friendly team as SEN Teaching Assistants, to support the learning of children with a high level of special educational needs.
The post is specifically created to provide additional
support to children with special educational needs within the school. You will ideally have a particular interest,
or prior experience in supporting children with special needs, in particular
those with social and emotional needs.
The ideal candidate will be:
- A positive, outgoing and resilient person, who enjoys working in a busy team
- Flexible, and with the patience to adapt to an individual child’s changing needs
- Committed to including all children, and helping every child achieve
- Confident in their own English communication, reading, writing and maths, so that they can support children to make great progress
- Hardworking and reliable
What the school offers its staff
This is a wonderful opportunity to join our exceptional school, and to make a real difference to children’s lives. Wood Farm is a very successful, diverse primary school in the Headington area of Oxford, with a strong reputation for inclusion: ensuring that children of different abilities and needs can learn successfully together.
In return we can offer the successful candidate a strong and supportive professional team and excellent training and development opportunities.
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
Ensuring that children are safe and well cared for is our highest priority. We work with parents and other agencies, including our Local Authority, to make sure that children are kept safe, both in school and beyond.
Staff members with designated lead responsibility undertake regular specialist training in safeguarding and child protection.
All members of staff and regular volunteers receive training in child protection, and we undertake comprehensive background checks on all adults working in the school, including an enhanced DBS check and full employment references.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to sbm.2589@wood-farm.oxon.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wood Farm Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 410 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wood Farm Primary School website
- Email address
- sbm.2589@wood-farm.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01865 762575
Housed in a beautiful set of buildings and landscaped grounds in the Headington area of Oxford, we believe that Wood Farm Primary School is a very special place to work, learn and grow as a teacher. We have over 400 pupils and children join our school from a wide variety of backgrounds, including many who join us from our federated nursery school, and others who have recently arrived in the country. We pride ourselves on the friendly, welcoming atmosphere that we have established in our large and vibrant school and the way that our children work, learn and play together.
As a teacher working in our school, whether newly qualified or more experienced, our commitment to your professional development is second to none. We have very high ambitions for our children and for our school, and we welcome staff members who are serious about being at the leading edge of our profession. Our teachers, teaching assistants, and other colleagues work closely together to deliver the very best for our children – and together to help make the ‘Wood Farm difference’.
The best way to get a sense of what our school is about is to visit us: we welcome, and recommend, visits from potential candidates and the opportunity to tell you more about our school. You will also find lots more information on our website www.woodfarmschool.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Wood Farm Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sbm.2589@wood-farm.oxon.sch.uk.
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