Higher level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Required for June 2021 or earlier

Age range: 11 - 18 

LBR 6 SCP 18

Strive, Succeed, Surpass

Are you a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant committed to improving the lives of children and young people? Or are you an experienced Teaching Assistant with excellent standards of provision looking for your next step?

We are looking for a two Higher-Level Teaching Assistants to join our fantastic team at Caterham High in Redbridge. As a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant, you will have a range of responsibilities including supporting our teachers and TAs to be creative in their teaching to meet children’s needs, maximising achievement, and ensuring our children are aspirational in their development. 

This is a great opportunity for a colleague who is looking to continue their career in education and is motivated to inspire learning in children with varied and complex needs. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure. We maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where pupils are listened to, respected and involved in as many decisions as possible.

Excellence is always at the top of our agenda. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work. We are looking for someone who can work with individual and small groups of children, leading intervention lessons as required, and building relationships with pupils to promote interaction and learning.

You will bring your previous experience of working in a SEN environment to a school that shares your vision to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people within our school community, to be happy and to make their way in the world.

You will be calm, engaging, resilient, enjoy working as part of a team, be confident in leading classes and small groups, and be genuinely motivated by helping every child to reach their potential.   

The Inclusion department boast a highly successful Hearing-impaired provision, where resourcing is shared across Inclusion. We have rooms dedicated to small group learning and a dedicated ‘Zen Den’ specifically focusing on the social emotional and mental health needs of our children. 

Caterham High School is on a journey to excellence. If you would like to join us, working in an exciting period of development and change, then we would like to hear from you. 

We strive to achieve aspirational outcomes and provision for our children and young people, set within a culture of inclusion and high expectations. 

Ofsted noted (Sept 2018) that there is “energised leadership” and “absolute clarity” about our next steps. The report also noted that students’ behaviour is consistently good in lessons and that they are respectful and contribute positively to the school’s work and culture. 

Newly Qualified Teachers/Early Career Teachers are welcome to apply. There is strong and valued CPD for all staff, including an excellent programme for NQTs/Early Career Teachers and trainee teachers. We are active participants of the Seven Kings Learning Partnership which also provides a wide programme of CPD including a residential for NQTs/Early Career Teachers.

We are a community school that serves a richly diverse area of East London, with many ethnic groups and languages represented. We have good facilities, including sports facilities, and opportunities to teach across the full age range. 

Our staff are well known as friendly and welcoming. There are staff activities such as football, badminton and yoga. Staff have free access to our fitness suite and free parking. 

We warmly welcome an informal telephone conversation prior to application. Visits to the site are by arrangement after the school day - visitors will need to follow our Covid safety protocols.

Are you interested? If so, please contact Debby Venner (HR Manager) for more information - the application pack and form are on our website. 

Completed application forms should be e-mailed to D.Venner@ecaterham.net by Monday 17th May at 10am. Interviews will be scheduled over a period of time starting in the week beginning Monday 17th May. The school will assess applications immediately on application and reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the closing date. 

If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of the closing date you should assume you have not been shortlisted.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  Offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and an Enhanced DBS Clearance.