Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Carr Infant School, York, North Yorkshire, YO26 5QA

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  1 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £8,935.50 - £9,568.55 Annually (Actual) Grade 7 Level 1-4 (£32,535 to £34,840 FTE)

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

11.25 hours per week (1.00pm to 3.15pm, Monday to Friday)

Term time plus two weeks

Carr Infant School is looking for a positive and enthusiastic Higher Level Teaching Assistant to complement the work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision.

You will have HLTA status or QTS/QTLS and GCSE qualifications in maths and English at grade C/4 or above, or equivalent, alongside significant experience of working with children in an educational setting and planning and delivering intervention programmes for children with a range of needs. You will have the skills to work alongside class teachers and our school SENCo to ensure that children are able to access an ambitious curriculum and make positive progress against their own personal targets. Most importantly, we are looking for someone who is calm, caring and consistent in their approach, who is committed to maintaining our high standards and wants to make a difference, and who is willing to 'go that extra mile' to better the life chances of our children.

Carr Infant School is due to join Excel Learning Trust on 1 November 2026. The Trust offers a range of staff benefits, and further details regarding the benefits and information about the Trust can be found here.

The trust will be undertaking a job evaluation exercise in the near future and, therefore, the grade for this position may change.

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

This post is subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service criminal records check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent processes

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 Carr Infant School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 200 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Carr Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/carr-infant-school

Carr Infants and Nursery School is a friendly, welcoming, child-centred, forward-thinking school. The school is located within the Acomb, a residential area in the North-western suburbs of York. It is right in the heart of the community, with good transport links into the centre of Acomb and York itself. It is a 10 -15-minute walk from Front Street, the location of shops, cafes, the local supermarket, and the Library within Acomb. The school has many bus stops within walking distance that provide access to regular routes for the 2.5 mile journey into York City Centre.

We provide a safe and purposeful environment, within which each pupil is valued and motivated to strive for excellence. At Carr Infants and Nursery School we see the diversity in our community as a strength of the school and we aim to ensure that every pupil is challenged and supported to achieve.

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