Teaching Assistant

Academics are currently looking for an experienced teaching assistant for a long term placement starting in September 2026. This is for a large mainstream primary school in South Leeds for at least 2 terms.

We are looking for a teaching assistant who has significant experience of providing inclusion and behaviour support. This would be to work alongside the current Senior Inclusion Support Worker and SENCo (under leadership of SLT) to coordinate and deliver inclusion support across school.

This would include (but not be limited to):

a comprehensive timetable of support across a number of pupils with SEMH and potential autism/communication and interaction needs (this role would not be limited to 1:1 support for a specific pupil)
planning programmes of support and intervention for themselves and other inclusion support staff to deliver as part of provision for pupils
responding to behaviour/inclusion needs as these arise in school
supporting a nurture provision over lunchtimes and break times
working in partnership with the SENCo/Senior Inclusion worker to make strategic plans that cater for needs based on presenting needs in school

The ideal teaching assistant would have:

a strong work ethic, able to manage challenge and work in a fast paced environment
experience in and a desire to support challenging SEMH behaviour and autism/communication needs
experience of working in a challenging inner-city school environment
have experience/training in delivering behaviour/SEMH/Emotional literacy support
potentially autism training

To be considered for this Inclusion Support/teaching assistant role you must have a DBS on the Update Service or be willing to apply for one