Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 27 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 October 2025 |
| Location: | Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD3 8QX |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 65bb92f2-7a01-4ca0-b155-2c08b6fff54b |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential Criteria:
• Experience appropriate to working with children in a learning environment
• An awareness of child/young person’s development and learning
• An understanding that children/Young people have differing needs
• Good written and verbal communication skills: able to communicate effectively and clearly and build relationships with a range of staff, children, young people, their families and carers
• Good reading, writing and numeracy skills
• Basic ICT skills
What the school offers its staff
Why choose Lapage Primary School?
Since joining Northern Star Academies Trust in May 2024, Lapage Primary School has continued to flourish with the Trust’s steadfast support. Our school is a place of ambition, creativity, and warmth, where every child is valued, nurtured and encouraged to achieve their very best. We are proud of our rich cultural diversity and of our commitment to providing an inclusive, high-quality education that inspires a lifelong love of learning.
About Northern Star Academies Trust
Northern Star Academies Trust is a thriving family of 15 schools serving the communities of Keighley, Bradford, Skipton, and Harrogate.
Our vision is rooted in our core values: Nurture, Sustain, Aspire, Thrive. Together, we work tirelessly to create environments where children and staff alike can flourish. All of our schools are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted, and we are proud to offer a professional and supportive network of colleagues, mentors, and training opportunities to help every staff member develop and succeed.
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.
Essential Criteria:
• Experience appropriate to working with children in a learning environment
• An awareness of child/young person’s development and learning
• An understanding that children/Young people have differing needs
• Good written and verbal communication skills: able to communicate effectively and clearly and build relationships with a range of staff, children, young people, their families and carers
• Good reading, writing and numeracy skills
• Basic ICT skills
What the school offers its staff
Why choose Lapage Primary School?
Since joining Northern Star Academies Trust in May 2024, Lapage Primary School has continued to flourish with the Trust’s steadfast support. Our school is a place of ambition, creativity, and warmth, where every child is valued, nurtured and encouraged to achieve their very best. We are proud of our rich cultural diversity and of our commitment to providing an inclusive, high-quality education that inspires a lifelong love of learning.
About Northern Star Academies Trust
Northern Star Academies Trust is a thriving family of 15 schools serving the communities of Keighley, Bradford, Skipton, and Harrogate.
Our vision is rooted in our core values: Nurture, Sustain, Aspire, Thrive. Together, we work tirelessly to create environments where children and staff alike can flourish. All of our schools are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted, and we are proud to offer a professional and supportive network of colleagues, mentors, and training opportunities to help every staff member develop and succeed.
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.