Higher Level Teaching Assistant
High Crags Primary Leadership Academy, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 2ESThis job expired on 7 December 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
7 December 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 12 hours per week (Monday and Tuesday only)
Contract type
- Fixed term - 7 months
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,403 to £28,142 per annum
Actual salary
- Pro rata £7,176.59 to £7,649.27 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:
- Level 3 qualification (NVQ level 3 or A level).
- Experience of working with children in a primary school or other setting.
- Experience of supporting children with special educational needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).
- The ability to maintain positive relationships with pupils, parents and staff.
- The ability to work effectively within a team.
What the school offers its staff
About High Crags Primary Leadership Academy
High Crags Primary Leadership Academy is a primary school, with a nursery, for 2 to 11 year olds in Shipley, West Yorkshire. We joined Star Academies in 2018 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism. We were graded as 'Good' by Ofsted during our most recent inspection in March 2019, including an 'Outstanding' grade for our early years provision.
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.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About High Crags Primary Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academies, Does not apply, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 336 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- High Crags Primary Leadership Academy website
- Email address
- tracy.waite@highcrags.staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 01274 584068
High Crags Primary Leadership Academy is a primary school, with a nursery, for 2 to 11-year-olds in Shipley, West Yorkshire. We joined Star Academies in 2018 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism. We were graded as 'Good' by Ofsted during our last graded inspection in March 2019, including an 'Outstanding' grade for our early years provision. In June 2024, Ofsted carried out an ungraded inspection, concluding that High Crags Primary Leadership Academy continues to be a ‘Good’ school.
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