Educational Teaching Assistant

Salendine Nook High School Academy, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD3 4GN

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  20 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  28 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,439.00 Annually (Actual)

Educational Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking for team players with a commitment to supporting and nurturing some of our more vulnerable students. A good sense of humour, kindness and flexibility are essential for this role.

We are proud of our Special Educational Needs Department, which has undergone significant development in recent years, and as a result more parents are choosing to send their children to be supported by our provision. The team of Educational Teaching Assistants is large and stable and this position has become vacant due to unexpected further growth in students needing support in our school.

Come and join our team to help support our students on their journey to achieve their ambitions.

For more information on the benefits of joining Salendine Nook High School, please visit our website: https://snhs.kirklees.sch.uk/vacancies/

The skills we are looking for:

• Experience working with children or young people in a school or similar setting.
• A flexible, positive, and patient attitude with the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Excellent communication skills for liaising with staff, parents, and external stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving.

Applications and further details are available on our website, or if you would like to talk to a member of our team, telephone 01484 657541

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings cautions and convictions in your application form. Applicants will be subject to an online search if shortlisted. Where the role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, candidates should note that it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

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 Salendine Nook High School Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1401 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Salendine Nook High School Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/salendine-nook-high-school-academy

Salendine Nook High School is a mixed, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary 11-16 school situated in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Attainment in entry is higher than average in all year groups. Over half of the students on roll come to us with high prior attainment based upon Key Stage 2 SATs. Our students generally arrive with high levels of literacy and numeracy. This means that expectations are high in terms of expected progress over the five years of secondary education. The parent body is also generally very supportive. We are a larger than average secondary school providing approximately 1350 places for students. The school is oversubscribed in all year groups.
The school converted to academy status in February 2012. It is sponsored by a single-academy trust called the Salendine Nook Academy Trust.

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