24 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    3 February 2025

  • Closing date

    5 January 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    29 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week Term Time plus 1 week

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£25,584.00 to £27,269.00 per annum (pro rata £22,005.68 - £23,455.01 per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a dedicated individual to provide tailored support to our pupils. You will be committed to making a positive difference to young people’s lives and in supporting and developing their learning. Your intervention will help enable an outstanding learning environment for our young people, providing the support they need to succeed.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively support learning and teaching, and to develop relationships across our school and the Star community.

You will have:

  • Degree level qualification.
  • Experience of working with children in a secondary school or other setting.
  • Experience of supporting children with special educational needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).
  • The ability to maintain positive relationships with students, parents and staff.
  • The ability to work effectively within a team.

What the school offers its staff

Tong Leadership Academy is a state-of-the-art secondary school for 11 to 18 year olds in Bradford. We joined Star Academies in 2016 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.

We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader. We were graded as ‘Good’ in all areas by Ofsted during our most recent inspection in October 2023.

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

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About Tong Leadership Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
788 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Phone number
01274 681455

Tong Leadership Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire is a 1600 place, 11-18 secondary school, which includes a 250 place sixth form. Tong joined the Trust on 1 December 2016. Like all Star schools, it has “Leadership” as a specialism.

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