16 days remaining to apply

  • Closing date

    6 January 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    13 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£28,788.00 - £30,400.00 Annually (Actual)

Cover Higher Level Teaching Assistant - South Site job summary

Springwell Leeds Academy

South Site

Cover - Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Salary: Point 23-25 (Term time only plus 5 days 39 Weeks)

(FTE: £33,366 – £35,235 Actual: £28,788 - £30,400)

  • Do you want to make a difference to some of the most vulnerable students in the city?

  • Work at a new, bespoke SEMH provision?

  • Move away from the restrictions of a mainstream pathway?

  • Lead learning across key stages and subjects?

We require a creative HLTA at our South site who is passionate about providing the best possible education and care for vulnerable students. This is an exciting opportunity to teach and nurture children, and play a significant part in their overall development.

This post will involve covering a range of classes across key stages, to enable us to offer the very best provision to all children. As such, you will have experienced teachers both on site and across the city on hand for collaboration and support, as well as access to a network of teaching assistants and pastoral colleagues who know our children inside out.

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 (SEMH). It would suit an individual who is passionate about making a real difference to students’ life chances and supporting them in achieving their potential. 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, a route into teacher training could be available to the successful candidate.

If you would like to discuss or find out more about this post, please contact Laura Reader, in the first instance via email: l.reader@springwellacademyleeds.org

Please submit an application through My New Term. Your application should outline 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.

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.

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About Springwell Leeds Academy

School type
Academy, ages 5 to 16
School size
326 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 16

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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