Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
St Paul's Catholic School
Milton Keynes
- £21,033 pro rata
- New
- Salary:
- St. Paul’s Pay Range 3 Point 16
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 13 April 2026
- Apply by:
- 19 March 2026
Job overview
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Fixed until August 2028
30 hours per week, Term time only plus 1 training day
Working hours Monday, Wednesday & Thursday 8.40am-3.35pm, Tuesday 8.50am – 3.35pm & Friday 8.40am-2.30pm
St. Paul’s Pay Range 3 Point 16, -£30,518- £32,597 FTE)
Starting Salary £21,033
Are you passionate about seeing pupils with Special Educational Needs succeed in their education and supporting families and young people to transition successfully to adulthood?
This position will support pupils within our mainstream resource provision. You will be supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs across a range of subjects in mainstream classrooms and will support our Emmaus Team in leading interventions linked to the students’ Education Health Care Plans. You will also have keyworker responsibilities for delivering Humanities and small group provision. We are looking to recruit a committed and enthusiastic individual into the Specialist Learning Support role. You should be resilient, flexible and enthusiastic, and have a strong understanding of classroom practice and working with variety of pupils needs. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential.
The successful candidate will have experience in working with children aged between 5 -19 years old with SEND, training will be given as appropriate.
St. Paul's is a thriving and successful Catholic school with an excellent reputation. Our commitment to excellent teaching and learning can be demonstrated through bespoke CPD opportunities and through the management of a growing and successful training school. All staff members are committed to the care and success of pupils and working in a setting where values of forgiveness, concern for others and respect are shared as the core values of St. Paul’s regardless of faith.
For further details and an application form please visit the school website https://www.st-pauls.org.uk/vacancies/support-staff-vacancies, e-mail enquiries@st-pauls.org.uk or call 01908 669735
Closing date for applications: Thursday 19th March 2026 at 9.00am
We will review applications on receipt. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before closing date and reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.
St. Paul’s Catholic School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All references will be requested and Online Searches prior to interview. The successful candidate will be subject to satisfactory Enhanced DBS Check.
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About St Paul's Catholic School
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- St Paul's Catholic School
- Phoenix Drive, Leadenhall, Milton Keynes
- Buckinghamshire
- MK6 5EN
- United Kingdom
About St Paul’s Catholic School:
St Paul’s is a thriving, mixed 11-19 comprehensive school with specialist training status. We have over 1800 pupils and are voluntary aided. Our Emmaus Student Support Department supports a range of difficulties from specific learning difficulties to moderate learning difficulties, physical difficulties and behaviour. We also have three specialist provisions for those with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, vision impairment or hearing loss.
With the Local Authority we run The Emmanuel Centre, a purpose-built facility for pupils with ASC who are academically able to access a mainstream curriculum but find the environment of a mainstream school challenging. We are the only Catholic secondary school in Milton Keynes and, with over 60 native languages spoken at St Paul’s, it’s true to say that we are a very diverse and inclusive community. Our curriculum provides a holistic education in which we enable children to develop their personal gifts and talents, their spiritual, social, moral and emotional understanding of the world, as well as their academic knowledge and skills.
Headteacher:
Mrs Jo-Anne Hoarty
Values and vision:
Our school motto, Ministerium Tuum Imple translates as Love, Serve, Do the best that is possible. All members of our community try their very best to follow Christ’s example and through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching, we educate children on how they can use their faith to guide their interactions and decisions. St Paul’s is a community of opportunities where staff and pupils are supported to use their talents and gifts and encouraged to develop new ones.
Ofsted
Leaders are effective because they have taken the right steps to improve the school. They show clear leadership and are well supported by staff. Governors have made significant changes to the way they work. As a result, they are very knowledgeable about the school so they successfully challenge leaders and hold them to account well. Teaching is good across all key stages because staff are committed to continually improving their practice.
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