Teaching Assistant – SEN Support
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8QQ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 52cf0dc6-cdf9-4a9a-a72e-1b9f4a312fcc |
Summary
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
Interviews week commencing 7th July 2025
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.
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
Interviews week commencing 7th July 2025
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.