Primary Learning Support Assistant
Bolton Brow Primary Academy, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX6 2BA16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Tuesday 22nd April 2025
Closing date
25 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week Term Time only Monday to Friday 8.45am -3.15pm.
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed term contract until 31st August 2026
Actual salary
- £16,659 - £17,190 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary: Band C (NJC point 4-6) Actual Salary: £16,659 - £17,190 per annum
Hours: 30 hours per week Term Time only Monday to Friday 8.45am -3.15pm.
Contract: Fixed Term in the first instance until 31st August 2026
Closing Date: Tuesday 25th March 2025 at 12noon
Interview: Monday 31st March 2025
Start Date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025
Are you a passionate, friendly and dedicated when it comes to providing excellent care and educational support to students with additional needs? Do you recognise yourself as having strong communication skills, patience and understanding? Are you a strong team player who can help to secure outstanding outcomes for all students in a safe, vibrant, and happy school? If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work as part of a passionate and friendly team under the direction and with the support of the SENDCO and Headteacher. You will also benefit from fantastic support and development opportunities to enable you to do what you do best at this wonderful school. At Bolton Brow you’ll find a strong foundation where you can make a real difference to the lives of our children.
What the role involves in a nutshell:
- To provide dedicated 1:1 support for a child / children diagnosed with additional needs who require individual support to develop their communication and interaction and cognition and learning skills as well as being able to nurture the child’s social and emotional needs.
- Responsible for some learning activities within the overall teaching plan to enable access to learning.
- To be actively involved in all aspects of school life.
What will you get in return?
- Automatic enrolment to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
- A supportive and forward-thinking Leadership Team
- Fabulous children who are polite, enthusiastic, and eager to learn
- Supportive and committed Staff, Governors, and Parents
- Excellent professional development opportunities
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme offering 24/7 Financial, legal and Wellbeing Support
- Face to Face Counselling
- Occupational Health
- Eye Tests *DSE/VDU users only
- £49 towards glasses and lenses * DSE/VDU users only
- Annual Flu Vaccines
- Home & Technology Purchase Scheme
- Lifestyle benefits (discount platform)
- Working as part of a creative and supportive team who want the best for all our students
If our school sounds like a place in which you could really make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.
A tour of the school will be available, please contact Mrs Fawcett in the office to make the request. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
See out Job Pack below for further details.
HOW TO APPLY
Could we be a good fit for each other? If you’d like a chat about the role, ahead of making a formal application, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact our School Administrator Gail Fawcett via g.fawcett@boltonbrow.tlt.school
If you’re ready to apply, please complete our online application (see below)
SAFER RECRUITMENT
We are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to behave in a way that supports this commitment and are subject to an enhanced DBS check. Please be aware that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. If you are shortlisted for interview, we will undertake an online public search in line with guidance from the Department for Education and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.
What the school offers its staff
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 Bolton Brow Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 228 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bolton Brow Primary Academy website
- Email address
- g.fawcett@boltonbrow.tlt.school
Bolton Brow Primary Academy member of the Together Learning Trust
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