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Teaching Assistant - SEN Support

Wood Farm Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8QQ

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• Start date details

  January 2023

• Closing date

  2 December 2022 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  23 November 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Part time: 31.75 hours per week, term time only
• Contract type: Fixed term - until August 2023 (may extend)
• Actual salary: £15,143 - £15,419

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 Year 1 and 2 team as Teaching Assistants to support 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 years 1 and 2 (six and seven-year-olds). 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. 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.

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.

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Additional documents

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TA Person Specification.pdf - 49 KB (opens in new tab)

TA Job Description.pdf - 120 KB (opens in new tab)

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
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wood-farm-primary-school

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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