Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Lansdown Park Academy are looking to recruit a Higher Level Teaching Assistant to their Rush Hill site in Bath,

The purpose of the role is to Job Purpose

• To assist in supporting pupils with a  range of school subjects and assist in the development of certain areas of those subjects (e.g. literacy interventions/reading programmes) in a 1:1 or small group setting offsite from the Academy. 

• To plan and lead on the delivery of outreach curriculum to individual pupils across Lansdown Park Academy

• To deliver and develop enrichment subjects to small groups of pupils

• To undertake the pastoral support for pupils in a class.

• To support the Behaviour Policy throughout the school.

• To contribute to developing social skills, raising self-esteem and encouraging the personal progress of all pupils in all activities.

Principal Accountabilities

• To develop and sustain educational continuity and progression in learning experiences and high pupil expectation.

• To plan and lead on the delivery of a range of  ASDAN project based activities through our offsite education provision. 

• To work with pupils on a 1:1 basis and small group basis in delivering literacy and numeracy interventions

• To promote and encourage good relationships between parents/carers, the community and the school.

• To keep up to date professionally.

• To work as part of a team to ensure that the best opportunities are offered to our pupils.

• To undertake other responsibilities in the school, as agreed with the Headteacher.

• To model and promote good equalities practice and value diversity across the service

HLTA Standards

The following descriptors are in line with the HLTA standards required for accreditation and the successful candidate will be expected to maintain them.

• Show you have high expectations of children’s learning and behaviour 

• Build effective and supportive relationships with children

• Act as a role model for positive values, attitudes and behaviours

• Communicate with a range of different people (including children) and in different ways 

• Work collaboratively with colleagues and other professionals

• Take steps to improve your own knowledge and practice

• Understand some of the different factors that affect how children learn (e.g. emotional, physical, cultural, social or domestic)

• Use your knowledge of the children you work with to plan personalised provision to support their learning

• Have an area of expertise – an aspect of your role for which you have developed knowledge used to support learning

• Use ICT in your role but not directly with children (e.g. internet, database, Microsoft Word for planning, email communication, etc)

• Have some knowledge of a curriculum related ‘framework’ (e.g. National Curriculum, QCA schemes, ASDAN, Primary Frameworks) 

• Know about how your school works in line with the SEN Code of Practice as well as Disabilities Legislation

• Have strategies to ensure that learners are interested and motivated

• Select, prepare or create resources suitable for the learning activity or that support learners

• Keep your own records of learner progress and access records in order to analyse

• Have a range of different strategies to manage children’s behaviour