Academic Support Assistant
Pudsey Grammar School, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7NDThis job expired on 10 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
1 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,209.00 - £18,455.00 Annually (Actual) Term-time + 5 days / 32 hours per week
Academic Support Assistant job summary
Job Title: Academic Support Assistant
Hours and working pattern: 32hpw, term time only plus 5 days, actual working pattern to be confirmed (the school operates a flexible early finish on Fridays)
Expected duration: Permanent
Grade: A1 £24,480 FTE Actual (£36 - £19,555)
Salary: Start date: September 2024
This an exciting opportunity for you to join our expanding SEND team as an Academic Support Assistant. Our team supports students with a range of learning needs to achieve their goals and targets. The successful candidate will play a key role in promoting self-belief, social inclusion and a high self-esteem amongst our SEND students, which is an integral part to their well-being. You will need to be a highly motivated team player and have the ability to relate well to young people and build positive relationships.
Who are we looking for someone:
- Who has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- With a willingness to go the extra mile to meet the needs of the role, undertaking a variety of work to achieve the best outcomes for students
- Who constantly seeks improvement of own skills, knowledge and ways of working as well as systems of work and resources to do the job
- With high expectation of self and students
In return, we can offer you:
- The opportunity to be part of a rapidly improving school
- A supportive organisation which has staff wellbeing at its core
- A flexible early finish to your Friday working day
- A dynamic and enthusiastic team of supportive and talented colleagues who ensure our students are successful in every way
- An award-winning state of the art building
- Generous annual leave entitlement
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history and an on-line search will be conducted. This includes only information publicly available on-line.
We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.
Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK – either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply for this position.
Application Process
Should you wish to apply for this position, please send the following to recruitment@pudseygrammar.co.uk.
A completed application form. Applications should be made electronically in Word or PDF format
Please be aware that we do not accept Curriculum Vitaes
In support of your application you may include a covering letter. This should be in addition to the completed application form.
Closing date for applications: Thursday 10th July 2025 at 12.00 noon
Successful candidates will be contacted direct with details of the interview.
Interview date: Thursday, 17th July 2025
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
About Pudsey Grammar School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1362 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Pudsey Grammar School website
Pudsey Grammar School is a heavily oversubscribed mixed comprehensive secondary school located in the heart of the market town of Pudsey. The school has a long and proud history stretching back to 1904. The school has over 1200 students with a thriving and expanding Sixth Form of 200 students, all taught in a state of the art building. The innovative and unique style of the building creates a calm atmosphere very different to many secondary schools.
We are aiming to be a centre of excellence by 2023 and every indicator we have shows that we will achieve this goal. Continuing to recruit high calibre staff is a key priority of our strategy.
* January 2017 - Amanda Speilman (Chief Inspector of Ofsted) wrote to congratulate us on 'transforming
all aspects of the school'.
* August 2018 - the most improved school in the city
* April 2019 - highly successful Ofsted which confirmed the school is now good in all areas including Sixth
Form
* August 2019 - our best ever GCSE results with a Progress 8 figure of +0.1.
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