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Teaching Assistant

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

This job expired on 4 February 2022 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  4 February 2022 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  20 January 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time: 5 days a week, term time only. 29.25 hours per week, usually 8.45 - 3.30 with a 4.00 finish one day per week.
• Contract type: Maternity or parental leave cover - 31st December 2022
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,933 - £19,312
• Actual salary: £12,466 - £12,716

Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking for a patient, skilled, and hardworking person to join our friendly staff team as a Teaching Assistant, working with class teachers to support children’s learning.

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 and committed to making a lasting difference to all children.

Working as a teaching assistant will involve providing additional support to children with special educational needs, however the post-holder will also provide support to other children within the class. You will ideally have a particular interest, or prior experience in supporting children with special needs, but just as important are the skills you will bring; patience, good humour, belief and ambition for all children, and readiness to reflect and learn. As a teaching assistant at Wood Farm School, you will be supported by our SEN co-ordinator, and will work closely with other members of your teaching team. You’ll benefit from professional training and support: all staff receive training in school-wide priorities such as supporting emotional health and wellbeing of children, and there are opportunities to develop further such as in phonics, early reading or in maths support.

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 reading, writing and maths, so that they can support children to make great progress
• Hardworking and reliable

In return we can offer the successful candidate a strong and supportive professional team and the chance to make a real difference to children. This post could suit someone looking to gain experience of working in a school setting before moving onto a career in teaching, or someone thinking of working as a teaching assistant for the long-term.

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: 402 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Wood Farm Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• 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 (opens in new tab)

Wood Farm Primary School is a vibrant and thriving two-form entry school in the Headington area of Oxford. Already judged ‘good’ by Ofsted 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.

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