General Teaching Assistant/Higher Level Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 29 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 December 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS14 3JD |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | b499d146-1609-4ed3-b57d-35812582ee7a |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a Higher Level Teaching Assistant with SEN experience who is enthusiastic, caring, flexible and inspiring to work under the direction of our Headteacher, SENCO and Classroom Teachers. We need someone who is a strong team player and wants to contribute to all aspects of school life. The successful candidate will demonstrate a positive approach with the main aim of helping pupils to continue to make progress and reach their full potential. They should have a commitment to supporting high standards of teaching and learning, be keen to work as part of a close team, as well as have the ability to develop warm relationships with children, colleagues and parents.
As an MSA you will be required to supervise children in the lunch hall and in the playground to ensure a positive, caring and safe environment.
What the school offers its staff
Our vision at Thorner C. of E. Primary School is to inspire, develop and nurture all of our children, rooted in a strong sense of belonging, enabling them to flourish, succeed and go forward into the world with the skills, compassion and resilience to make a positive difference.
Commitment to safeguarding
Elevate Multi Academy Trust (Elevate) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children within its family of Academies. It expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Elevate and its Academies believe that the child’s welfare is always of paramount concern, and that all children have a right to be protected from abuse regardless of their age, gender, disability, culture, language, racial origin, religious belief or sexual identity. All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and appropriately in accordance with Elevate’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.
We are seeking to appoint a Higher Level Teaching Assistant with SEN experience who is enthusiastic, caring, flexible and inspiring to work under the direction of our Headteacher, SENCO and Classroom Teachers. We need someone who is a strong team player and wants to contribute to all aspects of school life. The successful candidate will demonstrate a positive approach with the main aim of helping pupils to continue to make progress and reach their full potential. They should have a commitment to supporting high standards of teaching and learning, be keen to work as part of a close team, as well as have the ability to develop warm relationships with children, colleagues and parents.
As an MSA you will be required to supervise children in the lunch hall and in the playground to ensure a positive, caring and safe environment.
What the school offers its staff
Our vision at Thorner C. of E. Primary School is to inspire, develop and nurture all of our children, rooted in a strong sense of belonging, enabling them to flourish, succeed and go forward into the world with the skills, compassion and resilience to make a positive difference.
Commitment to safeguarding
Elevate Multi Academy Trust (Elevate) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children within its family of Academies. It expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Elevate and its Academies believe that the child’s welfare is always of paramount concern, and that all children have a right to be protected from abuse regardless of their age, gender, disability, culture, language, racial origin, religious belief or sexual identity. All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and appropriately in accordance with Elevate’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.