Teaching Assistant

Hovingham Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8 3QY

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Immediate

• Closing date

  10 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  24 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,424.00 - £23,901.00 Annually (Actual) FTE £26,403

Teaching Assistant job summary

Our purpose, our motivation is simple ‘to give our children the best experiences we can’. We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to support our teaching & learning team.

We are set in the developing inner-city community of Harehills, we're lucky enough to serve the children that make Leeds a diverse metropolis of language and culture, with over 41 languages spoken, 759 NOR and a staff team of 100, we are not your ordinary school, which is why we are looking for the extraordinary.

If you were successful, you would join a team of talented staff where our values of respect, creativity, tolerance and perseverance permeate through everything we do, they are our guide, which make Hovingham a special place to work.

Team Hovingham thrives on challenge and opportunity, we work relentlessly to ensure our children make rapid progress and we give our children engaging, enriching educational experiences delivered through passion and care.

The Teaching Assistant is a varied and valuable role, covering a wide range of duties from supporting learning and teaching, carrying out interventions to address gaps in learning, managing behaviour together with carrying out general class admin.

With a general understanding of the curriculum, child development and learning, you’ll support children to make good progress. Furthermore, you’ll be expected to collaborate with a range of colleagues to meet the specific needs of individual children. The ability to work constructively as part of a team as well as working independently is essential.

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

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 Hovingham Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 764 pupils
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hovingham Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hovingham-primary-school-leeds

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