6 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    ASAP

  • Closing date

    7 May 2024 at 10am

  • Date listed

    18 April 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time, full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£19,778.00 - £20,445.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 4-6 (Term Time Only + 4 days)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Post: Teaching Assistant

Required: ASAP

Pay scale and salary: B1, SCP 4 to 6

£19,778 - £20,445 actual salary (based on 37 hours)

£16,036 - £16,577 actual salary (based on 30 hours)

Contract Type: Term Time Only + 4 days

Fixed term for 12 months initially

Hours of work: 30-37 hours per week (can be flexible)

Who we are looking for:

  • A strong, ambitious, and intelligent team player who is passionate about supporting young people to enjoy and succeed through their learning journey at Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy
  • An innovative, resilient, creative and motivated professional with an uncompromising belief that all children deserve an outstanding education.
  • An organised, reliable colleague who is committed to working with staff and students to help them achieve.

This is an exciting time to join a motivated, friendly and mission aligned growing team in a vibrant and successful school community with many opportunities to develop in the future.

What we can offer:

  • An exceptional CPD programme which is research led, valuable and bespoke
  • A growing school with incredible opportunities to develop, be promoted and take on further responsibility
  • A Staff Wellbeing group that regularly reviews our approach to workload and operates a wellbeing policy.
  • All staff have access to counselling, mental health support, physio and virtual GPs.
  • A highly experienced, visible, and supportive Senior and Middle Leadership Team
  • A sensible approach to everything that we do, taking staff workload into consideration.
  • Access to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
  • Provision for special leave of absence
  • Excellent maternity and paternity entitlements

You must be fully committed to optimising the opportunities that are available to children and young people, secure in the knowledge that you will be joining an ambitious, forward-thinking Academy Trust that sets the standards for our family of schools and academies.

The school is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children, and applicants will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

This post expects the successful candidate to safeguard the welfare of CYP and uphold your professional responsibility.

This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK-either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children, and applicants will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Applying for the job

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About Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
418 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy is a member of the Cockburn Multi-academy Trust whose focus is on each individual, acknowledging both their rights and responsibilities. Teaching and Learning drives an ambitious curriculum that seeks to stretch and challenge all students through academic rigour. A strong care, support and guidance structure supports learning throughout the school. Through dedication and hard work our students will have a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. We widen the aspirations of all students, to help them to reach destinations that are ambitious and fulfilling. We promote respect and good manners; these are fundamental to our school based on our shared Values and Expectations. We recognise the importance of each individual and the school’s place in the local community. We aim to promote lifelong learning by developing creative, independent and reflective learners. We believe in the equality of opportunity and in celebrating success for all.

To arrange a visit for Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy, St Georges Road, Leeds, LS10 4UZ, please contact us on 0113 4872837 or email recruitment@cockburnlca.org

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