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Support Assistant

Cliffe Hill Community Primary School, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 8TW

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• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  23 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 30 hours per week, term time only 8.45am to 3.15pm Monday - Friday
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year
• Pay scale: Scale 2, point 4

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint 2 enthusiastic, empathetic and committed support assistants. The successful applicants will be creative, engaging and positive, and will also be great team players, good communicators and dedicated to raising the achievement of our children.

The successful applicants will:

• develop positive relationships with our children, providing care and nurture.
• have experience of supporting children with additional needs.
• use their initiative as well as working under the direction of the class teacher.
• demonstrate a calm and nurturing approach.
• have a good level of English and Maths and ability to use computing systems in school.

What the school offers its staff

• Fantastic pupils who are enthusiastic and keen to learn.
• A committed and caring staff team.
• A supportive working culture that focuses on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all children.
• An inclusive approach to education where we continue to aim to exceed expectations for all.

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

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.

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About Cliffe Hill Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 191 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cliffe Hill Community Primary School website
• Email address: head@cliffehill.calderdale.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01422202086
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cliffe-hill-community-primary-school

Cliffe Hill is a one form entry primary school on the outskirts of Halifax and Brighouse. The school has 197 pupils on roll, including a Nursery and a Key Stage 2 provision for pupils with Autism.

Arranging a visit to Cliffe Hill Community Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email head@cliffehill.calderdale.sch.uk.

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