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Academic Support Tutor – Medical Needs

Pudsey Grammar School, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7ND

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• Closing date

  10 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  2 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,725.00 - £24,745.00 Annually (Actual) 37hpw, term time plus 5 days. Working pattern to be confirmed (the school will operate a flexible early finish on Fridays from September 2024)

Academic Support Tutor – Medical Needs job summary

To provide focused support to accelerate the learning of our most vulnerable under-achieving or SEND students, meeting their specific needs and ensuring the highest levels of engagement. This will involve supporting students with a range of learning needs which could be physical, medical or special education needs.

To support students with an array of challenging learning needs and behaviours as well as complex medical needs, to remove their barriers to learning through a flexible and adaptable approach, with a willingness to undergo training to develop key skills and knowledge to advance the support that school is able to offer SEND students.

To support a range of students with SEND needs, specifically involving working with any students who have complex medical needs.

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

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.

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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
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/pudsey-grammar-school

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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