Level 1 Teaching Assistant (Maternity Cover)
The Farnley Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 5EU340 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate.
Closing date
31 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
31 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 30 Hours per week, Term Time Only + 5 Days
Contract type
- Fixed term - Maternity Cover - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- A1-B1 (SCP 1- 6) £23,656- £25,183 Actual Salary: £16,496 - £20,418
What skills and experience we're looking for
1 Year Maternity Cover
The Farnley Academy are seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Teaching Assistant. This role is of great importance to our work as an Academy in providing high quality teaching support.
The ideal applicant will have:
- GCSE Grade A*-C in English and Mathematics.
- The ability to work alone and as part of a team.
- Experience of working with young people.
What the school offers its staff
What we offer you:
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership to a local government pension scheme.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
Further details about the role
About us:
The Farnley Academy is a high performing Ofsted Outstanding (2023) school located in the West of Leeds. At TFA we are wholeheartedly dedicated to ensuring that all students in our care receive a first class education and achieve their goals in life, whatever they might be. Our staff value each of our students as individuals and work tirelessly to ensure that students achieve excellent GCSE examination outcomes, and also develop into positive members of society. It is through our valuing of the individual and our consistently high expectations that we will achieve our vision of providing ‘An Exceptional Student Experience for all’.
If you would like to know more about our Academy please visit our website atwww.farnley.leeds.sch.uk.
How to Apply:
If you’re as excited about this role as we are, an job description and person specification is available to download from this page, by email torecruitment@farnley.leeds.sch.ukor by telephone on 0113 2630741.
Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Farnley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1491 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Farnley Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@farnley.leeds.sch.uk
As part of The GORSE Academies Trust, The Farnley Academy underwent a remarkable transformation over three years to become one of the most improved schools in England. In December 2013, the excellence of our work was recognised by OFSTED which judged the Academy to be Outstanding in all areas. Inspectors reported that '…the quality of teaching is outstanding. Much is inspirational. As a result, students display a rare thirst for learning and an eagerness to succeed.' In addition, inspectors noted ‘Newly qualified teachers are able to improve their teaching skills very quickly and effectively as a result of the excellent role models in the school and the excellent support available to them from experienced colleagues’.
In 2015, The Farnley Academy became a Teaching School. Working in alliance with a range of partners, we actively seek opportunities to raise standards in education through research and development, initial teacher training, school-to-school support and continuing professional development. The GORSE Farnley Teaching Schools Alliance has quickly established a reputation for profoundly improving student outcomes in other schools, particularly in English, Mathematics and Science.
In 2016 the Academy was awarded the prestigious World Class Schools Quality Mark, becoming one of only 50 schools across England to have secured this status. Awarded only to schools whose students are able to demonstrate they have world class attributes and qualities, we are hugely proud of this achievement and what it says about our young people, their aspirations, creatively, sense of community and pride in their academy.
Our mission is simple – to create an environment which is free from cynicism and unwilling to put limits on what young people can achieve. If you share our vision, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for. Applications are welcome from experienced teachers seeking a new challenge and from colleagues hoping to secure their first post.
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