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Teaching Assistant
Lift Cottingley, Leeds, LS11 0HU14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
9 November 2026 at 8:57am
Date listed
26 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £22051 - £22758 per annum
Teaching Assistant job summary
Lift Cottingley is looking for a caring and enthusiastic Level 3 Teaching Assistant to join our team. We're looking for someone who is passionate about supporting children, helping them build confidence and ensuring every pupil has the opportunity to thrive.
Whether you've supported children with additional needs or worked in a primary school setting, your skills, patience, and positive approach matter.
About the role
As a Level 3 Teaching Assistant, you'll work closely with teachers and the SENCO to support pupils with a range of learning and additional needs. You'll help children access the curriculum, develop independence and feel confident in their learning.
You'll provide one-to-one and small-group support, assist with classroom activities and deliver targeted interventions. You'll also help promote positive behaviour and create a safe, welcoming environment where every child feels valued and supported.
The role may also involve covering lessons for short periods in emergency situations.
Does this sound like something you'd enjoy?
Key responsibilities
- Support pupils' learning through one-to-one and small-group activities.
- Work alongside teachers and the SENCO to support children with additional learning needs.
- Assist with lesson planning, preparation and delivery.
- Deliver targeted interventions to help pupils develop their skills and confidence.
- Encourage positive behaviour and support pupils' social and emotional development.
- Help create a safe, inclusive and engaging classroom environment.
- Work flexibly across the school, from EYFS through to Year 6.
- Provide short-term classroom cover in emergency situations when required.
- We are looking for someone who
- We're looking for someone who is patient, empathetic and genuinely passionate about helping children achieve their potential.
- Can you build positive relationships with pupils, parents and colleagues? Are you confident supporting children with different learning needs while remaining calm and positive under pressure?
- We'd love to hear from you if you're proactive, organised and ready to make a difference in our school community.
- Skills and experience we're looking for include:
- A Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent.
- Experience working within a primary school setting.
- A strong understanding of how children learn, particularly those with additional needs.
- Confidence supporting pupils one-to-one and in small groups.
- Clear communication skills when working with children, teachers and parents.
- Patience, empathy and the ability to remain calm under pressure.
- A flexible and proactive approach, with a willingness to work across EYFS to Year 6.
- The ability to use initiative and work effectively as part of a team.
- A commitment to inclusion and ensuring every child has the opportunity to succeed.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position.
About the school
At Lift Cottingley, we are proud to be a vibrant, ambitious school community with a strong sense of purpose and belonging. We combine high expectations for academic achievement with a deep commitment to inclusion, creativity and play.
Our children benefit from a unique and evolving site, including large outdoor spaces, an OPAL play programme, a developing forest area and a growing range of specialist provisions to ensure every child thrives.
We are incredibly proud of our successes, from exceptional outcomes in reading, writing and maths to our national recognition for oracy, inclusion and sustainability.
We are an excellent school, with a culture built on collaboration, professional growth and innovation. Staff here know they will be supported, developed and trusted, with regular coaching, dedicated time to focus on what matters and the chance to shape whole-school initiatives.
Our values - big-hearted, unusually brave, pushing the limits and discovering what's possible - are lived daily by children and adults alike.
If you want to join a forward-thinking team where your contribution makes a visible difference, and be part of a community that is ambitious for every child, then Lift Cottingley is the place to grow your career.
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
How we support you
We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.
Interested in joining us?
We warmly welcome visits to our school.
This is a full-time position (37 hours per week), starting as soon as possible, on a fixed-term contract until 31 August 2027.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lift Cottingley
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 242 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Lift Cottingley website
Welcome to Lift Cottingley and thank you for your interest in our school. I am enormously proud and privileged to serve the children and families of this community as the Headteacher. Lift Cottingley is a happy, warm and nurturing environment for all within it and every member of our team is striving towards creating the outstanding school that our families deserve.
Our school is a very special learning community, filled with dedicated and talented staff, where all students, whatever their ability and background, will flourish. We work hard and care enormously about our pupils. We serve an area of high socio-economic deprivation which brings along with it many challenges, as well as massive rewards. Every day at Lift Cottingley is different and we pride ourselves on the difference that we make each day to the lives of the children we serve. If you are the type of person who is passionate about helping each and every child, has a positive outlook, shows bags of resilience in the face of challenge and wants to inspire children and young people through fun and engaging learning activities then you will fit right in as part of our team.
The staff at Lift Cottingley are our greatest resource and we will nurture and develop you throughout your career. Being part of Lift Schools means every employee at every level is able to access tailored CPD and opportunities to work across the group as they progress. Please read our staff profiles for more information on how this is happening right now for members of my team.
We warmly welcome visitors and hope that you will come and see for yourself just what we are about and whether or not working here is right for you.
Thank you for your interest in our school; we can't wait to meet you!
Kelly Bentley (Headteacher), the staff team and our governors
Our Curriculum
At Lift Cottingley we provide children with a carefully designed curriculum which is based on high quality learning experiences that prepare them both academically and socially to be the best that they can be both now and in the future.
At Lift Cottingley we teach all subjects discretely but make links between where appropriate. PSHCE permeates all that we do and links to our weekly and Rainbow Family assemblies. We also employ a counselling service in the school to support staff and children. To enrich the curriculum we use coaches, theatre groups, peripatetic music support, history and science specialists etc. We also believe that pupils benefit greatly from educational visits and each class has the opportunity to take part in at least one visit per year (with residential stays being part of the curriculum for Y6). We want our curriculum to be exciting for our pupils as we believe that the best learning comes when children are motivated and engaged.
Our Specialism and Awards
Our great science curriculum has enabled us to achieve the Space Education Quality Mark at Gold Level (2016-17).
We are proud to have gained our Primary Science Quality Mark at Silver level (2015-16).
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