Associate Teacher
Pudsey Grammar School, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7ND12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,596.00 - £27,166.00 Annually (Actual) 37 hours per week, term time plus 5 days. Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 4:15pm Friday 8:00am - 2:30pm
Associate Teacher job summary
Job Title: Associate Teacher - permanent
Hours and working pattern: 37hpw, plus 5-day training days (8.00am-4.15pm Monday to Thursday and 8.00am to 2.30pm Fridays)
Grade: C1, 12 - 17
Salary: £28,597 - £31,585 FTE (£24,596 - £27,166 Actual)
Start date: ASAP
We are seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated, and motivated candidate for the crucial role of Associate Teacher at Pudsey Grammar School.
This position offers an exciting opportunity for individuals who are passionate about education and eager to contribute to the academic and personal development of students and would particularly suit someone who is thinking about a career in teaching.
As an Associate Teacher, you will provide effective cover for absent teaching staff across a full range of subjects, supervising classes and groups of students, delivering pre-planned lessons whilst ensuring students’ work is completed in a calm and purposeful working atmosphere. You will work closely with students, helping them to engage with the curriculum and achieve their full potential in a supportive and inclusive learning environment.
You will be supported to achieve good behaviour and classroom management by a team of experienced and dedicated teaching staff and middle leaders. You will have the opportunity to be linked to a curriculum department and involved with the development of a subject specialism under the guidance of the Subject Leader.
Applicants will need to demonstrate:
A strong commitment to young people and their learning
A confidence and resilience to deal positively with all students
A commitment to:
o Working in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, prevent and our safeguarding and child protection policies)
o Will have responsibility for receiving and acting upon any reported concerns and ensuring that the Child Protection Policy is implemented and promote best safeguarding practice across the school as part of the Student Support Team.
o Promoting the safeguarding of all students in the school
The opportunity to play a key part in the continuing transformation of the school
The successful candidate will join a dynamic and enthusiastic team of staff who are ensuring our students are successful in every way
Have the opportunity to work alongside hub-schools in the Yorkshire and Humber region and University College London, with access to high quality Teaching and Learning training, networking events, CPD and national teacher meetings held annually in London.
Be part of a supportive organisation which prides itself on high standards for staff and students
Work in an award-winning state-of-the-art building
This 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:
A completed application form.
Applications should be made electronically in Word or PDF format to recruitment@pudseygrammar.co.uk.
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.
Application form and full job description can be found on the school website:
https://www.pudseygrammar.co.uk/
Closing date for applications: Monday 22nd September 2025 at 8.00am
Successful candidates will be contacted directly with details of the interview.
Interview date: Friday 26th September 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.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)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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