Higher Level Teaching Assistant
The Queen's School
City Walls Road, Chester CH1 2NN
- £23,026 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Benefits include a strong sense of community Supportive colleagues, a competitive salary, pension scheme, discounted school fees, subsidised meals and refreshments available, on site parking if required.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Spring term 2025
- Apply by:
- 24 February 2025
Job overview
Job Description
Responsible to: SENCO
Objectives of the post:
To provide essential support to pupils who need additional help accessing learning, social and emotional support as well as getting pupils into school.
Key responsibilities:
1. Supporting students
- Work flexibility to ensure pupils with an EHCP receive the support they require.
- Provide in-class support, working alongside teachers to determine how to best enable girls to make progress.
- Plan and deliver 1:1 or small group interventions to develop girls’ literacy, numeracy or social skills (ELSA qualification would be useful)
- Act as a point of contact for parents of key pupils.
- Support key pupils along with the SENCO to come into school.
- Work with pupils to help them understand how they learn best and communicate this to other staff through the creation of one-page profiles.
- Monitor pupil responses to learning activities and accurately record achievements and progress as directed.
- Support pupils who require access arrangements for internal and public examinations e.g. acting as a reader or scribe.
- Promote good pupil behaviour, deal promptly with conflict and minor incidents in accordance with established policies.
2. Supporting the SENCO:
- To assist in the development, implementation, and review of individual Student Support Plans.
- To assist with administrative tasks when appropriate.
- To contribute to the evaluation of support programmes by providing regular feedback about students to the pastoral team.
- To contribute, where appropriate, to reviews of students’ EHCPs.
- Administering screening tools to identify SEND needs in pupils.
3. Supporting the School more broadly:
- To liaise, advise and consult with all staff when necessary.
- To work collaboratively with teaching staff and assist teachers in ensuring quality first teaching is in place.
- Act as an invigilator for internal and external exams.
- Contribute to the maintenance of a caring and stimulating environment for young people.
- Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies.
Carry out other associated duties as are reasonably assigned by the Head or other appropriate senior members of staff.
About The Queen's School
Welcome to Queen’s
The Queen’s School is a leading selective GSA Independent day school providing education for around 450 girls between the ages of 4 and 18 years.
The school is highly successful, with a strong and consistent emphasis on the needs of individual pupils that focuses on enabling pupils to challenge, question and develop. The Queen’s school is well known for its excellent pastoral care, which is a hallmark of its community and underpins the academic focus that characterises the school. The vast majority of our pupils go on to attend their first choice university, including medical and Oxbridge places, and leave the school as confident, articulate and well balanced young women.
The school is situated close to the centre of the thriving, historic city of Chester and a few minutes cycle ride or drive from the unspoiled countryside of Cheshire, Wirral and North Wales. Manchester and Liverpool are within easy reach, and London is 2.5 hours away via train.
The ISI awarded the school the highest standard of “excellent” in all categories in its most recent inspection.
The History of the School
The Queen’s School was founded in 1878. The school's pupils achieved considerable distinction from the outset. Of the sixteen girls who joined The Queen's School on its opening day in 1878, two would go on to win places at Cambridge - the first of many in a long and honourable tradition.
The school would subsequently provide Chester with its first female solicitor, its first lady mayor, the first woman to receive the Freedom of the City, the first woman president of the Freemen and Guilds in over 800 years and the first female cathedral provost in Church of England history.
The School buildings were erected with the financial assistance of several leading Chester families, on land on the Chester City Walls provided by the Duke of Westminster. This site still exists today as the main part of the Senior School. Further buildings have been constructed or acquired so that the school now inhabits a mixture of Georgian and Victorian buildings as well as more modern ones. The Queen’s Lower School was originally based in two large Victorian houses on Liverpool Road, Chester. It still occupies this site but has expanded in recent years.
Although much has changed since The Queen’s School was founded, our values-driven approach to education has remained the same and the school’s motto of “Honour Wisdom” still rings true and resonantly today.
Working at Queen’s
The Queen’s School has an outstanding reputation for staff and pupil welfare and staff career progression is important. Continuous professional development opportunities are offered, as is specific support for Early Career Teachers as part if the ECF. The school is a member of the Girls’ Schools Association network of schools, enabling access to a wealth of support, information and training.
Teachers at The Queen’s School are ambitious for themselves and for the school, but mainly for their pupils, getting to know them as individuals to set challenging but achievable targets. Across all year groups, there is an expectation of excellent results. At the Senior School, this includes the preparation of students for entry to highly competitive courses, including Oxbridge.
The Queen’s School invests proactively in technology to support teaching and learning, and an extensive and well-populated Virtual Learning Environment is well used by all pupils and staff at both the Lower and Senior Schools. All pupils in the Senior School have individual iPads and all teachers (Lower and Senior Schools) are provided with individual iPads to enhance their practice.
All members of staff are expected to contribute to the school's extracurricular programme, which mainly operates at lunchtimes and after school, and to support the marketing and admissions departments when necessary.
The Queen's School participates in a pension scheme with Legal and General and the Government Childcare Voucher scheme, offers discounted school lunches, reimburses parking costs for staff and offers a pro rata 50% fee reduction for staff members who would like their daughter/s to attend the school.
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