Teaching Assistant – SEN Support
Wood Farm Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8QQThis job expired on 3 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 September 2024
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
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year (may extend)
Actual salary
- £16,547 - £16,823
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.
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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
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- School website
- Wood Farm Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sbm.2589@wood-farm.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01865 762575
Wood Farm Primary School is a vibrant and thriving two-form entry school in the Headington area of Oxford. Ofsted judged our school ‘good’ overall in November 2022, with ‘outstanding’ leadership and management. Our school is an exciting and fulfilling place to work, where all members of the school community strive to be the best they can be.
Our mission is to be outstanding in all that we do – by challenging ourselves and helping each other to Reach Higher, See Further and to Shine Brighter every day. At Wood Farm School we are fascinated by learning, by interesting ideas and questions, and we want our children to go on to enjoy learning for the rest of their lives – and to make a difference in the world.
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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