Speech & Language Therapy Teaching Assistant - Haddenham Community Junior School
Location: Haddenham
Overview
We currently have a vacancy for a Speech & Language Therapy specialist Teaching Assistant to work with children across Key Stage 2.
The holder of this post will provide speech and language support for our pupils with priority to our EHCP and SEN Support children and any children who have temporary difficulties linked to speech and language.
Term time only: Yes
Salary type: Bucks Pay
Salary Details: £24,836 - £28,742 per annum pro rata dependent on experience
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Closing date: 13/04/2026
Interviews to be held: Date to be confirmed
About us
At Haddenham Community Junior School we provide a safe, stimulating and successful environment to enable all children to develop their full potential to prepare them for the next stage of their lives.
Website: www.haddenhamjun.co.uk
About the role
Duties include providing targeted support to enhance learning opportunities, improving attainment and achievement. Responsibilities include running interventions and support programmes to help these children and promote their inclusion in the classroom and help them access the wider curriculum. The successful candidate will be required to engage proactively with the advice, training and webinars offered by the Speech and Language Therapy team in order to support pupils.
The SALT element of this job is for 0.6FTE of the week. Also included in this role is a 0.4FTE general TA role mainly involving the one to one support of children who require additional emotional and behavioural support to thrive in their learning environment, helping them to work inclusively within the classroom and to assist them with activities outside of class when this becomes a challenge. You may at times also be helping other children to participate in learning activities running intervention groups and providing general support to the teaching staff.
For further information please see attached Job description.
About you
For this post, our ideal candidate will have some experience of working with children who have speech and language difficulties in Key Stage 1 or 2, ideally with additional needs. They will demonstrate an understanding of social, emotional and mental health needs and trauma informed practice. Importantly, they will be patient, empathetic and able to think creatively and flexibly to support pupils' unique needs. It is important that applicants have a love of helping children engage in learning and be happy to undertake any training necessary to run interventions in school.
Other information
Please send completed application forms to Sam Rogers, Business & Operations Manager at the email address below.
Tel No: 01844 291829
Email: [email protected]
At Haddenham Community Junior School we believe that a policy on child protection is founded on the right of all children to be safe and feel safe, and that it is the fundamental obligation on all schools to robustly secure this right. We are an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are subject to references and an enhanced DBS and social media check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
