1:1 Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Springwell Leeds Academy, Leeds, LS10 3JA

52 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  4 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  14 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or Lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,712.00 - £31,377.00 Annually (Actual)

1:1 Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

1:1 Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Temporary 1 year post (in the first instance)

At Springwell Leeds, we define education through connection and well-being rather than rigid systems. Operating within a primary-style nurture model, you will join our Key Stage 3 team as a critical 1:1 HLTA.

This is not a passive support role; it is a dynamic position funded by the local authority to fulfil the specific provisions of individual EHCPs. You will be the primary architect of a key group of individual students’ daily progress. We require a candidate who is as resilient as they are insightful.

Working with significant autonomy, you will collaborate with specialist teachers to design and execute bespoke learning experiences. We are looking for an intelligent problem-solver who can adapt in the moment to spark genuine joy and engagement in pupils who find traditional environments challenging.

For the right candidate, the role expands beyond the classroom into the heart of the community. You will have the agency to lead one-to-one community-based interventions, mentoring students as they navigate real-world complexities. Your Impact & Responsibilities

• Creative Leadership: Take ownership of PSHE and pastoral curricula, utilizing your imaginative flair to make academic concepts accessible and compelling for your student.

• Innovation & Advocacy: Develop bespoke projects and campaigns tailored specifically to your students’ unique profiles to foster confidence and participation.

• Professional Mentorship: Act as the expert advocate for your students, ensuring they are seen, understood, and supported through a lens of high expectations.

This position would suit a candidate with a proven track record of being an advocate and supporting the learning of vulnerable pupils with social, emotional and mental health difficulties. It would suit an individual who is passionate about making a real difference to students’ life chances and supporting them in achieving their potential in essential life skills. The ability to be creative and use imaginative flair to engage is essential, along with having resilience, drive and high expectations to inspire students to achieve. As we are a growing Academy with a teacher training school in the Trust, it may also provide an opportunity for further opportunities in the future.

To apply please submit an application through My New Term outlining why you feel your experience makes you a strong applicant for this exciting opportunity, highlighting areas in which you have shown impact.

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview.

Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

As you will be working with children, this post requires you to undertake regulated activity. It is an offence to seek to work in regulated activity with a group with which you are barred.

We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/ countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Springwell Leeds is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All candidates successfully selected for interview are required to complete a self-disclosure form.

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Springwell Leeds Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• Size: 356 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Springwell Leeds Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/springwell-leeds-academy

Springwell Leeds Academy is a special school for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.

We are located on three sites accross the city of Leeds in Middleton, Seacroft and Tinshill - check job details for where each role is based.

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