Temporary SEND Teaching Assistant
Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AHThis job expired on 18 May 2026 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
18 May 2026 at 8am
Date listed
1 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Temporary from 1 September 2026 to 16 July 2027 32.5 hours per week. Term Time plus 1 Training Day (September) 8.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday,
Contract type
- Fixed term - Temporary from 1 September 2026 to 16 July 2027
Pay scale
- Range 9 (9-13) SCP9 £27,254 pro rata (£20,108.00 actual salary)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you looking for an exciting and new career opportunity?
Then this will be the job for you.
Could you support our SEND students and guide them to overcome their barriers to learning and reach their fullest potential?
We are seeking someone to support the teaching, learning and pastoral care needs for students with a range of special educational needs and disabilities to ensure a positive and inclusive learning environment for our students.
We are proud to be Secondary School of the Year for Academic Excellence 2025, Ranked No 1 in the North of England - The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2025.
We are committed to supporting flexible working and welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time or flexible arrangements.
At Heckmondwike Grammar School, our motivation is for our students to enjoy their school days and to become thoughtful, articulate, confident and responsible members of society. In order to achieve this, we rely on our staff to work closely with students, parents and teachers to provide a supportive community, keeping the well-being of our students at the forefront of everything we do.
The Role:
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and engaging temporary teaching assistant to work within the SEND department here at Heckmondwike Grammar School. Working within the SEND Code of Practice to promote full inclusion within our school.
We are seeking someone to support the teaching, learning and pastoral care needs for students with a range of special educational needs and disabilities to ensure a positive learning environment for our students.
Duties will include but are not limited to:
- To support students with SEND as required
- Work with class teachers to raise the learning and attainment of pupils
- Promote pupils’ independence, self-esteem and social inclusion
- Give support to pupils, individually or in groups, so they can access the curriculum, take part in learning, and experience a sense of achievement
Responsibilities
Specific responsibilities are set out in a detailed job description.
What will you bring to the role?
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Demonstrate a high standard of customer service
- Work well as part of a team, as well as on your own initiative
- Honesty and integrity
- A flexible and open attitude to change
- Suitability to work with children
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer
- Motivated, ambitious students who are eager to learn and succeed.
- A supportive and creative team dedicated to student progress.
- Well-equipped, specialist classrooms to enhance teaching and learning.
- A learning-centred school where best practice is a priority.
- Comprehensive CPD opportunities to support professional development and career progression.
- A vibrant, collaborative community of like-minded professionals.
Why Should You Apply?
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique learning environment, home to students who are eager to learn, ambitious in their aspirations, and keen to make the most of their educational experience.
We take pride in:
- Our diverse school community, which consistently achieves exceptional results.
- A school culture that supports students' academic success and personal development.
- Strong relationships between staff and students, creating a positive learning environment.
- High expectations, which drive students to excel.
We also offer:
- A competitive salary.
- Membership of the Local Government pension scheme.
- A range of well-being benefits.
If you are interested in this position, then please visit the vacancies section of our website www.heckgrammar.co.uk/vacancies.
We look forward to receiving your application
Completed applications should be sent by email to: recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk.
Further information about the school is available on the school website www.heckgrammar.co.uk
Protection of children:
Disclosure of criminal background of those with access to children.
All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of itsstudents and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in theSafeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heckmondwike Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1468 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heckmondwike Grammar School website
- Email address
- djepsonnorth@heckgrammar.co.uk
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School of the Year”, in the North of England, for 2024 and 2025 in the Sunday Times Parent Power Guide. This is a measure of school performance for GCSE and A level outcomes.
At GCSE our students typically exceed government set target grades by more than 1 grade in each subject and we are ranked second nationally for state coeducational schools.
At A level, we rank in the top 20% of providers nationally for grades AAB or above and typically 3 times the national average of our students attend Oxbridge universities.
We are very proud of our academic heritage.
Misbehaviour is rare; and excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm: teachers are able to ‘get on and teach’. Working here is still challenging, however, but in different ways: expectations are high and potential applicants will need to be able to operate effectively in a top performing environment. However, one of the principal joys of working at this school is our eloquent and motivated students. Consequently, outcomes are amongst the very best in the country, and this is the result of able cohorts being provided with high quality teaching that is supported by strong pastoral care for each student. The school is justifiably proud of the focus on academic attainment and knowledge of each individual that enables education to be tailored to every student’s needs; but also prioritises the support it provides to enable any barriers to progress to be addressed. The focus is and will always remain teaching and learning in the classroom, with staff training and development being the main means of achieving this end.
The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed, with well over 1500 students applying for entry into Year 7 each year, competing for one of 210 places. Post 16, we are similarly oversubscribed with around 800 applications for one of approximately 225 places in year 12. The majority of our year 11 students continue into the sixth form and are joined by a number of similarly aspirant students from across the region.
We work in partnership with an extensive group of schools, including the Northern Grammar School Alliance (NGSA), and have a significant reputation both locally and nationally. This means we offer our staff opportunities to be involved in professional development on a larger scale and see it as a sign of our high quality when members of our community are promoted to posts elsewhere, or progress internally. As a result, all staff feel very privileged to work here and to work with our young people.
Further information about the school including main school and sixth form prospectus may be found on the school website at www.heckgrammar.co.uk
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