1:1 SEND Teaching Partner: Fixed Term
Barton Park Primary School, Barton Park, OX3 9WN
Grade 4, 32.5 hours per week, fixed term role: start September 2026, end 31 December 2026.
Salary: Grade 4.
Key Responsibilities & Attributes
- Elevate Early Learning & Play: Work closely alongside the class teacher to cultivate a rich, inspiring environment where all children are encouraged to thrive, discover, and learn. Proactively guide and support your 1:1 child to explore our exceptional indoor and outdoor facilities—including our kitchen garden—finding joyful, accessible ways for her to play and engage.
- Impact Through Interaction: Deliver consistent, patient, and high-quality interactions that respect the unique developmental pace of each child, while establishing clear boundaries and high expectations. Focus heavily on creating a language-rich environment, using everyday play moments to build connection and communication with a pre‑verbal child.
- Team Collaboration & Growth: Work as an integral part of a dedicated, passionate team. While the specialist SEND team will lead on and run all specific educational interventions, you will be invited to attend occasional out‑of‑hours CPD sessions to develop your pedagogical skills.
- Nurture, Inclusion and Care: Bring a deep desire to help young children thrive in school through patience, consistency, and a developing understanding of early childhood development. Meet the child’s daily personal care needs—including changing pull‑up nappies—with dignity and respect. Use co‑regulation strategies to support children experiencing the effects of trauma or deprivation, ensuring our classroom remains an inclusive, non‑judgmental space for all.
Skills & Experience Required
- Resilience & Patience – deeply patient, resilient nature with a positive outlook, essential for building trust and celebrating milestones of a child with complex needs.
- Proactive & Child‑Centred – ability to use initiative to discover what the child enjoys, actively seeking out playful learning opportunities and tailoring activities to her unique interests.
- Experience or Passion for early education and SEND – experience working with EYFS/primary‑aged children and those with SEND is highly desirable, but a genuine, demonstrable desire to learn early childhood pedagogy is essential.
- Inclusive Mindset – good foundational understanding of how children learn, alongside a deep appreciation for the importance of inclusion for all children.
- Commitment to Personal Care – comfortable, respectful approach to managing daily personal care routines, including changing pull‑up nappies.
- Qualifications – a recognised TA qualification such as an NVQ2 for Teaching Assistants (or equivalent) is desirable, but not essential.
Core Personal Attributes
- Flexible, resilient approach to work, paired with a patient, deeply non‑judgmental attitude.
- Natural problem‑solver and collaborative team‑player who contributes positively and energetically to a small, dedicated staff team.
- Knowledge of, and strict compliance with, child protection, safeguarding, and health and safety policies and procedures.
What We Can Offer
Our school is new and growing each year. It is popular within our local community: our nursery, reception and KS1 classes are oversubscribed and have waiting lists. Parents speak highly of the opportunities we provide the children and our wonderful new facilities. We have developed a forest school site locally, and an emergent orchard and wildlife area onsite, as well as a fabulous outdoor EYFS area, including a kitchen garden. You would join a small, motivated and dedicated team of professionals, serving a newly opened school at the heart of a growing community.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
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