Teaching Assistant
High Crags Primary Leadership Academy, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 2ES18 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
29 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 27.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 5.5 hrs a day: 8.45am to 3.15pm)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,027 to £24,404 per annum
Actual salary
- Pro rata £14,966.35 to £15,201.18 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for a dedicated individual to provide tailored support to our pupils. You will be committed to making a positive difference to young people’s lives and in supporting and developing their learning. Your intervention will help enable an outstanding learning environment for our young people, providing the support they need to succeed.
The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively support learning and teaching, and to develop relationships across our school and the Star community.
You will have:
- NVQ Level 2 Teaching Assistant or equivalent.
- Experience of working with children in a school setting.
- The ability to maintain positive relationships with pupils and other adults.
- The ability to work with pupils on a one to one, small groups and whole class.
What the school offers its staff
About High Crags Primary Leadership Academy
High Crags Primary Leadership Academy is a primary school, with a nursery, for 2 to 11 year olds in Shipley, West Yorkshire. We joined Star Academies in 2018 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism. We were graded as 'Good' by Ofsted during our most recent inspection in March 2019, including an 'Outstanding' grade for our early years provision.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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.
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About High Crags Primary Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 351 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- High Crags Primary Leadership Academy website
- Email address
- tracy.waite@highcrags.staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 01274 584068
High Crags Primary Leadership Academy in Shipley, West Yorkshire is a 420 place, 4-11 primary school. High Crags joined the Trust on 1 April 2018. Like all Star schools, it has “Leadership” as a specialism.
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