Educational Teaching Assistant - Additionally Resourced Provision

Carlinghow Academy, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 8HT

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  11 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,695.00 - £25,957.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 8 scale points 19-22 (FTE £32,061-£33,699) 32.5 hours per week Monday-Friday, fixed term until 31.08.2026, term time plus 5 days

Educational Teaching Assistant - Additionally Resourced Provision job summary

Join our dedicated team and make a real difference.
Carlinghow Academy’s Additionally Resourced Provision supports children with complex Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and their families. Our specialist setting works with Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils from Kirklees schools, helping them thrive in a nurturing and structured environment.

We believe every child deserves an education of excellence. At Carlinghow Academy, we have high expectations and a relentless focus on improving teaching and learning so every child can maximise their potential and enhance their life chances.

About the Role

This is a challenging yet highly rewarding position where you will:

• Work collaboratively with teachers and a specialist team to create a positive climate for learning.
• Assess individual needs and deliver tailored learning activities that build skills, confidence, and independence.
• Support children’s emotional well-being and encourage positive behaviour.
• Engage with families and professionals to build trust and ensure the best outcomes for every child.

What We’re Looking For

Someone who is passionate about inclusion and committed to making a difference. You will:

• Be a team player, working alongside teachers, support staff, and external professionals.
• Organise and deliver individual and small-group interventions.
• Build strong relationships with parents/carers to foster confidence and trust.

What We Offer

• Wonderful children with a desire to learn.
• A highly skilled, supportive team and senior leadership.
• Bespoke professional development to help you ‘reach great heights’.

If you’re ready to take on a role that transforms lives and gives every child the chance to succeed, we’d love to hear from you!

Carlinghow Academy is committed to safeguarding personal data. Any information provided during the recruitment process will be processed in accordance with UK GDPR and our privacy policy. No personal details about the child will be shared during recruitment.

Great Heights Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and provide satisfactory references prior to appointment.

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.

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 Carlinghow Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 297 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Carlinghow Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/carlinghow-academy

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