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Teaching Assistant

The Morley Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS27 0PD

This job expired on 11 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, TTO plus 5 days
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: A1/B1 SCP1-6

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Morley Academy are looking for a hard-working and passionate Teaching Assistant to join our forward thinking, innovative and dynamic academy to ensure our Outstanding, World Class provision is not only retained but is also built upon. The successful candidate will be based within our SEND Department, providing additional support to our students to assist with their learning.

The ideal applicant will have:

• Experience of working with or caring for children of relevant age.

• The ability to relate well to children and adults.
• The skills to adapt to different abilities, key stages, subjects and situations.

What the school offers its staff

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership to a local government pension scheme.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

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.

Skilled Worker visas can 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.

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About The Morley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1422 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Morley Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@morley.leeds.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-morley-academy

The Morley Academy is an Ofsted graded Outstanding 11-16 academy with 1546 students, making it a larger than average secondary school. Gaining the prestigious World Class Schools Quality Mark in 2016 and being reaccredited in 2018, Students at The Morley Academy have proved that they are ambitious, resilient and aspirational. Strong examination results and progress figures over the last few years have placed us within the top 200 schools nationally. In September 2015 the school became part of The GORSE Academies Trust led by Sir John Townsley. The Trust is a vibrant and forward thinking teaching community which places all students, in particular those who come from the most challenging backgrounds, at the centre of its work. The Trust officially has two outstanding secondary academies and one Outstanding Post-16 free school: Elliott Hudson College, the Post-16 provider of choice for the majority of Morley’s Year 11 cohort. Furthermore, in 2016 the Trust opened an Alternative Provision free school, The Stephen Longfellow Academy, a direct partner to all of the academies in the Trust. In addition to four primary academies, two of which are have been graded by Ofsted as Outstanding, the Trust also includes two Teaching Schools which provide leadership development and initial teacher training and the opportunity to be involved in innovative and exciting teaching and learning opportunities; the GORSE SCITT was also graded by Ofsted as Outstanding in 2017 adding testament to the fact that the Trust is one of the highest performing Multi Academy Trusts in the country.

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