Teaching Assistant (SEN) - Maternity Cover

Gledhow Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8 1PL

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  13 July 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 Months - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,185 to £25,989 (FTE)
• Pay scale: B1, 04-06
• Hourly rate: £13.45 to £13.47 per hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

" Be Adventurous: making the ordinary extraordinary"

Gledhow Primary School is looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant with SEN experience to work across our school.

We are keen to speak to calm, caring, and resilient individuals who will bring a warm and nurturing personality to our school alongside an understanding of the families and children in our community.

Applications are welcome from suitably experienced and/or qualified Teaching Assistants who can demonstrate good teaching and learning skills with an understanding and awareness of special educational needs and early years.

About Us:

Gledhow is a super school with brilliant pupils, staff, governors and families. We are a large busy three-form entry school in North Leeds with a wonderfully diverse pupil and colleague community. At Gledhow we strive to make the ordinary extraordinary, by taking the everyday experiences our pupils have and transforming them into amazing opportunities for learning, growth, and personal development.

This is a rewarding role where you will:

• Primarily work providing 1:1 learning support addressing the individual needs of our SEN pupils.
• Support the class teacher during lessons to create an engaging and supportive classroom.
• Help children throughout the day including at playtimes and during dinner.
• Work collaboratively as a team with our amazing teaching, learning support, and lunchtime colleagues.

The working hours are 32.5hrs per week, TTO, Monday to Friday 8.30am to 3.30pm.

What the school offers its staff

In return, we offer term time working and a competitive salary. We encourage continued personal development and offer training sessions for Teaching Assistants, covering safeguarding, health & safety, fire evacuations, team teach, various elements of SEN training, first aid, CPOMs and much more. All staff also have access to our wellbeing support hub, which provides a range of health and wellbeing services and courses.

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.

If you would like to join us we would love to hear from you. Visits to the school before the closing date are welcomed. Please email the school on recruitment@gledhowschool.org to arrange a visit.

How to Apply

Please download and complete the application form via the link below.

Completed applications should be addressed to the Headteacher at the school address or via email to recruitment@gledhowschool.org.

The closing date for this vacancy is 9:00am, Monday 13th July 2026, interviews will be undertaken week commencing 13th July 2026. Applications can only be submitted up until the closing date.

Gledhow Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. This role is ‘regulated activity’ therefore you are advised to read our Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy which is also available below.

Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check and satisfactory references.

If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history, and an on-line search will be conducted.  This includes only information publicly available on-line.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Gledhow Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 663 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Gledhow Primary School website
• Email address: recruitment@gledhowschool.org
• Phone number: 0113 2930392
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gledhow-primary-school

Gledhow is a super school with brilliant pupils, staff, governors, and families. We are a large busy three-form entry school in North Leeds with a wonderfully diverse pupil and colleague community.

At Gledhow we strive to make the ordinary extraordinary, by taking the everyday experiences our pupils have and transforming them into amazing opportunities for learning, growth, and personal development.

Arranging a visit to Gledhow Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@gledhowschool.org.

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