Teaching Assistant

Holy Name Catholic Voluntary Academy, LEEDS, West Yorkshire, LS16 6NF

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  5 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE) Monday to Friday, 30 hours per week. Salary NJC Grade A1/B1, Scale Points 3-6, £24,796- £25,989 per annum. (Actual Salary £16,869-£17,681 per annum )

Teaching Assistant job summary

Fixed Term until 31 August 2026, Part Time, Term Time Only

Monday to Friday, 30 hours Teaching Assistant including Lunchtime Cover

Salary NJC Grade A1/B1, Scale Points 3-6, £24,796-£25,989 per annum

Actual Salary £16,869-£17,681 per annum

Required 5th January 2026

We are looking for someone who:

• Is warm, friendly, and empathetic 
• Has excellent English, maths and communication skills 
• Understands how individual children learn to ensure rapid progress 
• Is committed to high standards of attainment and behaviour
• Works effectively as part of a skilled team including outside agencies 
• Someone who may want to develop skills necessary to enter into initial teacher training 
• Is a practicing Catholic or supportive of the Catholic ethos of the school 

What we can offer you:

• A professional team of hardworking and supportive staff and senior leadership team
• Well behaved, caring children
• Strong and effective links with parents/ carers, and the local community
• Excellent links with Cookridge Children Services
• Support via the BWCAT learning mentor group
• A well set up bank of resources to support workload
• Employee discount scheme (offering cycle to work scheme, gym membership, money saving offers across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers, home and electrical items)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (Education Support)
• Generous pension contribution managed by the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
• A supportive organisation with the commitment to professional development and wellbeing

Visits to Holy Name are warmly welcomed; please contact Sheila Flynn, Office Manager on 0113 267 7532 to make an appointment. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

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 school is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

In line with KCSiE 2025, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Holy Name Catholic Voluntary Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 208 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Holy Name Catholic Voluntary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/holy-name-catholic-voluntary-academy

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