Job Description

Nields Academy

SEN Teaching Assistant

Fixed term contract - based on the attendance of the supported child(ren)

32.5 hours per week, term time only

Salary: Grade 5, Scale Points 5-6, 19,273 (FTE 25,583)

Start - As soon as possible

We are looking to appoint an SEN Teaching Assistant, who ideally has experience of working with children with special educational needs. You will work under the instruction and guidance of teaching/senior staff, undertaking work/care/support programmes, to enable access to learning for pupils and to assist the Teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area.

As an SEN Teaching Assistant, you will support children who have an Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP). Your role will be vital in helping to implement the provisions and strategies required to enable these children to achieve important life outcomes, which may include assisting with intimate care and medical needs.

In return you will work in a warm and welcoming school community, with dedicated staff and enthusiastic well-behaved children.

Great Heights Academy Trust is a progressive and forward thinking Multi Academy Trust where there are opportunities for development and career progression. We are a growing multi-academy trust with nine schools in the West Yorkshire area with plans to further expand. In addition, we are home to a SCITT, Research School and an English Hub.

If you are passionate and enthusiastic about helping children and can work with us to nurture their aspirations and dreams; enabling them to be the best they can be, then we would love to hear from you.

If you wish to apply for the position, please go to our Trust site vacancy page at https://ghat.org.uk/join-our-trust/vacancies/ and click on the Apply Now option on the advert for SEN Teaching Assistant at Nields Academy.

PLEASE APPLY VIA THE WEBSITE, WE CANNOT SHORTLIST INDEED APPLICATIONS.

Closing date:

Tuesday 25th November 2025, 9am

Interviews:

1st December 2025

Great Heights Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out; references will be sought, and successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, an online search, and other relevant checks with statutory bodies.

GDPR Disclaimer:

Please note and appreciate that whilst we review all CV's and applications, due to the high volume that we receive on a regular basis, we can only respond to candidates that have been successful with their application. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within

14 working days of your application

, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful. In line with the General Data Protection Regulations (May 2018) (replacing the Data Protection Act 1998) we will permanently delete information for all unsuccessful applications and we will not keep candidate information on file for future vacancies at this stage of our process.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: From 19,273.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 24/11/2025