Educational Teaching Assistant / Cover Supervisor - English

About All Saints Catholic College

All Saints is an 11-16 school, situated near the northern boundary of Kirklees. We are a Catholic school with students attending from diverse cultural backgrounds, which contributes to the distinctive ethos. In November 2022, Ofsted judged All Saints "Good" in every category, and we received an "Outstanding" judgement from our S48 inspection by the Diocese of Leeds in June 2018.

About the role

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Educational Teaching Assistant to support our successful English department. This role will also incorporate cover supervision duties within the English department equivalent to 1 day per week. The salary is a combination of scales to reflect the duties.

The successful candidate will work under the guidance of English teaching staff and our SEND department to implement and oversee agreed work programmes with individual and small groups of students by supporting progress through intervention. This intervention will be in the form of extraction groups and in-class support. Competence in understanding and delivering GCSE English content up to grade 5 is essential.

You will need to be able to work collaboratively and flexibly and build good relationships with both students and staff, demonstrating a respectful and caring attitude towards everyone in school. Experience of working with children in a school environment and having the appropriate literacy to support students is required.

Please note, you will be working 32.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm during term time. You will also work an additional day at the start of the academic year for staff training.

What we can offer you

At All Saints Catholic College, we aim to create a happy work place culture through promoting a healthy work/life balance. We do that by providing a package of flexible employee benefits, including:

• An attractive pension scheme for both Teaching and Support staff.


• A high-quality wellbeing package including medical cover, counselling, physiotherapy, fast track medical cover, care service and a 24 hour GP-helpline.


• Care First Advice - a 24/7 information and counselling service.


• We are part of the Cycle to Work scheme. Tax free bikes and safety equipment can be payable by payroll deduction through a partnership with Cyclescheme.


• Free parking.


Application process

Applications are invited from enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals who are able to work as part of the whole staff team, and who will support and uphold the Catholic ethos and practices of the school.

To apply, please visit https://www.aschc.co.uk/recruitment/

Enquiries should be emailed to Miss C Taylor at hr@aschc.com

Please note, we are unable to accept CVs as an application for any of our vacancies as these do not support our safer recruitment processes.

Interviews will take place w/c 30th September 2024.

All Saints is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Therefore, we expect all workers, volunteers and employees to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including online searches and a satisfactory Enhanced Criminal Record with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.

Due to the number of application forms we receive, we regret we can only contact shortlisted candidates.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Educational Teaching Assistant to support our successful English department. This role will also incorporate cover supervision duties within the English department equivalent to 1 day per week. The salary is a combination of scales to reflect the duties.

The successful candidate will work under the guidance of English teaching staff and our SEND department to implement and oversee agreed work programmes with individual and small groups of students by supporting progress through intervention. This intervention will be in the form of extraction groups and in-class support. Competence in understanding and delivering GCSE English content up to grade 5 is essential.

You will need to be able to work collaboratively and flexibly and build good relationships with both students and staff, demonstrating a respectful and caring attitude towards everyone in school. Experience of working with children in a school environment and having the appropriate literacy to support students is required.

Please note, you will be working 32.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm during term time. You will also work an additional day at the start of the academic year for staff training.

What we can offer you

At All Saints Catholic College, we aim to create a happy work place culture through promoting a healthy work/life balance. We do that by providing a package of flexible employee benefits, including:

• An attractive pension scheme for both Teaching and Support staff.


• A high-quality wellbeing package including medical cover, counselling, physiotherapy, fast track medical cover, care service and a 24 hour GP-helpline.


• Care First Advice - a 24/7 information and counselling service.


• We are part of the Cycle to Work scheme. Tax free bikes and safety equipment can be payable by payroll deduction through a partnership with Cyclescheme.


• Free parking.