Higher Level Teaching Assistant

St John's CofE Primary School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD4 6JF

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  14 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Band 8

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

As a valued member of our team, you will play a vital role in the delivery of our curriculum, predominately in Early Years and Key Stage 1, with a commitment to raising standards. You will work closely with the Class Teachers to secure outstanding provision, compliment teachers' delivery of the curriculum and contribute to the development of other support staff, students and academy policies and strategies and most importantly engage our children in a love of learning.

Our ideal candidate will be a team player. You should have a track record of building positive relationships with pupils in order to support them to make exceptional progress, be committed to developing your own practice and share the school’s high expectations for all children.

You will:

• Play a fundamental role in shaping the direction and future of our children

• Be part of a highly successful network of schools both locally and nationally

• Receive bespoke training and support in order to be the very best you can be
• Have the capacity to bring innovative ideas to the classroom

Commitment to safeguarding

We have a duty of care to ensure all of our children are safe. In school we do this by making sure that everyone who comes into the building is suitable for working with children.

Due to safer recruitment guidelines, applications will only be considered on our official application forms which are available from the Career Opportunities tab of our website www.stjohnsceprimary.co.uk.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About St John's CofE Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 447 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St John's CofE Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-john-s-cofe-primary-school-bradford

Our school serves its community by providing an education of the highest quality within the context of Christian belief and practice. At St John’s we pride ourselves on our knowledge of our children: the children come first in all that we do. We work hard to know every child, to know their strengths and interests, so that their learning is always challenging and interesting. We work closely with families to ensure that our families are empowered to support their children within and beyond school.

We are a popular two-form entry primary school with a nursery. The school is situated in exceptional grounds and draws children primarily from Bierley and the Holmewood estate. The team at St John’s work hard to ensure our curriculum is inspiring for our children, responding to their needs both academically and personally, building individual, independent children as they leave our school.

We are proud to be part of the Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust (BDAT) family of schools. If you would like more information about our school or BDAT, you can browse our website or visit the BDAT website.

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