TA2s (GTA's) and TA1s (PSA's)

Springwater Academy, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7LW

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Pending HR Recruitment clearances

• Closing date

  20 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Part time (Can be done as a job share): Hours/ weeks: 32.5hours/wk, 39 weeks (TTO + 1 week)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: Please see advert text

What skills and experience we're looking for

Salary information

TA1s (PSA's)Hours/ weeks: 32.5hours/wk, 39 weeks (TTO + 1 week)

Salary: Grade C £19,152 - £19,450 actual paid salary for working 32.5 hours per week/ 39 weeks per year

TA2s (ATA's)Hours/ weeks: 32.5hours/wk, 39 weeks (TTO + 1 week)

Salary: Grade D £19,763 - £20,076 actual paid salary for working 32.5 hours per week/ 39 weeks per year

What the school offers its staff

What we need:

• A commitment to and a passion for building a brighter future for young people with Special Educational Needs

• Someone who will embrace being part of a family of schools, sharing good practice and collaborating with others across a Trust.

• An enthusiastic and positive approach within the classroom part of the wider school and family of schools

• Commitment to own professional development and to enhance those of others in order that we can respond to the needs of our young people

• Consistently high expectations and aspirations for our young people and yourself

• A commitment to fresh and exciting methods to assist the delivery of the curriculum

• A relentless drive to secure the best possible outcomes for all young people in our academies

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Complete commitment to the core values of Ascent

We can offer you:

• An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals who love what they do

• Chance to work with our amazing young people and their families

• Excellent career development and progression opportunities

Comprehensive induction programme

• Opportunity to work across all ages and abilities within the Trust

• Opportunity to work in settings which value multi-disciplinary ways of working

• Access to a range of subject and SEND specific networks, regionally and nationally

• An exciting and extensive commitment to high quality professional development, identified through a strong appraisal process

• A comprehensive wellbeing and support package for staff

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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Springwater Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• School size: Up to 120 pupils
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Springwater Academy website
• Email address: hr@ascenttrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/springwater-academy

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