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Wrap Around Care Assistant

Ryecroft Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 5AW

This job expired on 26 January 2026 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  to be agreed with successful candidate

• Closing date

  26 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  14 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 7.5 hours per week, term time only. 7.30am-9am
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: A1 (SCP 2) £24,483 Actual Salary: £4,159

What skills and experience we're looking for

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and engaging Wrap Around Care Assistant for our Breakfast Club, who will further enhance our dynamic and well-structured breakfast club routines at Ryecroft Academy.

Potential applicants should have:

• Experience of working with children and young people.
• A real passion for education and proactively promoting its importance.
• A professional, engaging and nurturing personality.

Duties include:

• Developing positive and professional relationships with parents/carers and pupils.
• Supporting pupils in safe and engaging activities.
• Upholding standards of healthy eating and table manners.
• Ensuring pupils feel safe and happy at Breakfast Club.
• Maintaining rigour around safety and adherence to the Positive Behaviour Policy.
• High standards of cleanliness and hygiene, supporting our pupils to have a well-established hygiene routine before and after school.
• Ensuring all safeguarding procedures are meticulously implemented.

This role represents an exciting opportunity for anyone who is eager to be a part of a nationally renowned organisation with a strong moral compass. We would expect the successful applicant to be of a mind-set where they believe anything is possible for the young people we nurture: likewise, our professional body also benefits from CPD and support that is personalised to your particular needs and experience.

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 of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £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.

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

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

The GORSE Academies Trust use ‘OnlineSCR’ for the processing of safeguarding checks – their privacy notice can be seen at: https://onlinescr.co.uk/policies/privacy-policy/.

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Additional documents

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A1 Wrap Around Care Assistant RA.pdf - 313 KB (opens in new tab)

About Ryecroft Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 350 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Ryecroft Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@ryecroft.leeds.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ryecroft-academy

Ryecroft Academy is a one and a half entry primary school situated in Farnley, Leeds.


A thriving, dynamic and happy school, the staff team are wholeheartedly committed to doing the very best they can for the children in their care.  It is because of the team’s effort, expertise and strong moral purpose that families can be confident that the children at Ryecroft Academy are safe, cherished, encouraged and brilliantly taught. 


The Ofsted report from our March 2025 inspection confirms that the academy is Outstanding in all areas. Inspectors praised our ‘inspiring, broad and ambitious curriculum’ in which ‘pupils make exceptional progress.’  They noted a ‘culture of continuous reflection and improvement’ among leaders and staff, and highlighted that ‘parents and carers, alongside the local community, hold the school in high regard.


Ryecroft Academy benefits extensively from being part of The GORSE Academies Trust which is passionately committed to providing an exceptional education to pupils in the Leeds city region.  The trust has established a reputation for setting standards of excellence and achieving rates of improvements which have received national attention. If you would like to find out more about the remarkable things that are taking place at the academy, then please do contact us.  We would love for you to visit to see the impact of our exceptional work first-hand.

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