Higher Level Teaching Assistant - North Site (Primary)
Springwell Leeds Academy, Leeds, LS10 3JA3 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
10 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,788.00 - £30,400.00 Annually (Actual)
Higher Level Teaching Assistant - North Site (Primary) job summary
Springwell Leeds Academy
North Site
Primary Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Temporary contract
Salary: Point 23-25 (Term time only plus 5 days 39 Weeks)
(FTE: £33,366 – £35,235 Actual: £28,788 - £30,400)
- Do you want to make a really difference to some of the most vulnerable students in the city?
- Work at a new bespoke SEMH provision?
- Be part of the 45 million pound wider development of the academy across the city?
- Move away from the restrictions of a mainstream pathway?
- Have a passion to develop individuals with a more flexible curriculum than mainstream?
We require a creative HLTA at our North Site who is passionate about providing the best possible education and care for vulnerable students.
We are seeking an experienced professional to work alongside a small team of staff to provide bespoke provision for a small number of students in our Primary phase. You would have the opportunity to deliver core and personal learning curriculum as well as targeted interventions and plan exciting play based learning opportunities to develop social skills and emotional regulation.
This role requires a strong commitment to supporting students who face difficulties engaging with the busy school environment. The successful candidate will possess exceptional interpersonal skills, empathy, and a positive attitude. They will work closely as a key adult to support students, parents, and a wider team of professionals providing tailored support and interventions to widen engagement in a classroom setting.
This position would suit a candidate with a proven track record of being an advocate and supporting the learning of vulnerable pupils with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). It would suit an individual who is passionate about making a real difference to students’ life chances and supporting them in achieving their potential in essential life skills, which is a high priority for Springwell Leeds.
The ability to be creative and use imaginative flair to engage is essential, along with having resilience, drive and high expectations to inspire students to achieve. As we are a growing Academy with a teacher training school in the trust, it may also provide an opportunity for further opportunities in the future.
Staff will be based on our North Site. Candidates need to be confident to work in the school environment to support students with complex needs including Autism and ADHD both in a classroom setting as well as in a 1:1 capacity.
If you would like to discuss or find out more about this post, please contact Mary Ruggles, in the first instance via email m.ruggles@springwellacademyleeds.org
Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview.
Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
As you will be working with children, this post requires you to undertake regulated activity. It is an offence to seek to work in regulated activity with a group with which you are barred.
We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/ countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.
Commitment to safeguarding
Springwell Leeds is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All candidates successfully selected for interview are required to complete a self-disclosure form.
The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Springwell Leeds Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- 326 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Springwell Leeds Academy website (opens in new tab)
Springwell Leeds Academy is a special school for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.
We are located on three sites accross the city of Leeds in Middleton, Seacroft and Tinshill - check job details for where each role is based.
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