HLTA – PE & Outdoor Education
Addington Special School
Addington School at Woodley, RG5 3EU & Addington Early Years Centre at Farley Hill RG7 1UB
- £20,843 - £23,705 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- plus £1,067 SEN Allowance per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 October 2023
Job overview
32.5 hours per week – Term time only plus 5 INSET days
Location: Woodley & Farley Hill
An opportunity has arisen for a HLTA-PE & Outdoor Education to work collaboratively with class teams and school leads to support pupils with special educational needs and significant physical disabilities.
It is desirable that you will have previous experience of working with pupils with special needs but essential that you will have knowledge and an understanding of difficult and dangerous pupil behaviours and an ability to support teachers to provide a high quality education to all of our pupils. With an aptitude for sports and outdoor learning, you will be confident to deliver programmes to our pupils and will support with training our staff. Using your qualifications and experience in sports, coaching, rebound therapy and D of E, you will support and enable pupils to extend their access to the school curriculum and will ideally have knowledge of strategies to engage pupils.
You will provide group and 1-2-1 support for identified pupils whilst establishing and building positive relationships. You will lead on and support in the delivery of PE, Rebound Therapy and D of E in the school environment and will lead and organise lunch, after school clubs and off-site sporting fixtures.
For a further discussion about the role, please contact Mel Pengraeve, PE & Outdoor Learning Lead or Amanda Cherry, HR Manager on 0118 966 9073.
To apply, please submit an application form. Please note, we are unable to accept CVs.
Addington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employees of Addington school are required to undergo safeguarding checks which will include reference checks and enhanced DBS check.
Closing Date: 8th October 2023
Interviews: 16th October 2023
Attached documents
About Addington Special School
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- Addington Special School
- Woodlands Avenue, Woodley, Reading
- Berkshire
- RG5 3EU
- United Kingdom
Addington School is an Outstanding Special School for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. All our pupils’ primary need is a learning difficulty that is either moderate, severe or profound, with up to 50 percent also having Autism.
All our pupils have an Education and Health Care Plan and we are currently accommodating up to 310 pupils, aged between 3 and 19 years across 2 sites.
Based in Woodley and Farley Hill, we are part of a newly formed multi-academy trust with deep community roots across the Berkshire area, composed of a family of SEN schools all specialising in learning difficulties. We are very fortunate to have 2 purpose built environments which make our schools fantastic places for learning and wider curriculum enrichment. At Farley Hill, we have a 40 place Nursery to Year 1 Early Years Centre.
We tailor a personalised Educational Programme for every pupil to ensure that they reach their full potential as well as providing a bespoke sequential curriculum steeped in SEND pedagogy. The school has a long history of being outstanding and in March 2023 secured Outstanding again under the new Ofsted Framework.
We have particular strengths in our Creative Arts with Music a particular focus for all our students and have considerable expertise in teaching strategies for pupils with learning difficulties as well as Autism and Down Syndrome.
We believe in a positive ethos based on a culture of mutual respect and openness, where we are all learning together to be 'a community committed to excellence and the development of the potential of all’.
We pride ourselves in our commitment to induction, professional development and on-going support to all our staff.
Our Aims
- To know that what we do is making a difference to the lives of our young people.
- To continue to promote an inclusive approach to educational life.
- To expand our Parent and Community Partnership.
- To provide a learning environment based on mutual respect and self-advocacy.
- To create a challenging forward thinking culture.
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