Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Higher Level Teaching Assistant for a September 2025 start.

Under the guidance of the SEND Coordinator, you will take an active role in ensuring that the school meets its needs for SEND children, primarily in the Specialist Resource Provision.  You will be responsible for supporting pupils with additional needs primarily within the SRP, either individually or in small groups, to help them access the full curriculum. This support will take place both inside and outside the classroom. Whilst the role is based primarily within the SRP, your expertise will also work with the children within a mainstream setting.  

General Duties and Responsibilities

BROAD DESCRIPTION:

To advance pupils’ learning in a range of classroom settings, including working with individuals, small groups and occasionally with whole classes where the assigned teacher is not present.

To support the work of a qualified teacher and, under an agreed system of supervision, have responsibility for agreed learning activities.

This involves undertaking specified work, involving planning, preparing and delivering learning activities to individual pupils/groups or, short term, for whole classes and monitoring, assessing, recording and reporting on pupil development, progress and attainment.

Responsibility for people (other than employees supervised/managed):

The post has considerable impact on the wellbeing of individuals or groups, through contributing to policy development and review and to the development and delivery of learning activities.

Responsibility for staff:

The post has some responsibility for others, through demonstrating good practice, guiding/advising and directing other staff/volunteers who support teaching and learning.

Responsibility for budget:

The post has no direct responsibility for financial resources, though could be involved in occasional handling small amounts of cash, processing cheques, invoices etc.

Responsibility for physical resources:

The post has some direct responsibility for physical resources, including safe/secure record keeping and maintenance and management of learning resources.

•TYPICAL TASKS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•Support pupils’ learning including working with individuals and small groups, using detailed knowledge, experience, specialist skills and training.

•Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model, demonstrating positive values, attitudes and behaviour and setting high expectations.

•Create, write, update and review targets on pupil passports termly and distribute to staff

•Promote independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self- reliance

•Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement

•Assist with pupil supervision on trips off the premises, under overall guidance of the teacher.

•Provide for general care, safety and welfare of pupils, which includes tasks connected with their social inclusion and support with personal care and physical care (such as placing students in and out of standing frames)

•Organise and manage learning activities (including learning environment and resources) in ways which keep pupils safe.

•Under agreed system of supervision, plan and prepare teaching and learning objectives, adjusting activities/work plans as appropriate

•Monitor and evaluate pupil responses to learning activities using a range of assessment and monitoring strategies, against pre-determined learning objectives.

•Objectively assess, provide feedback and reports as necessary on pupil development, progress and achievement.

•Within the school’s discipline policy, apply behaviour management strategies and techniques to manage behaviour constructively and contribute to a purposeful learning environment.

•Support the role of parents in pupils’ learning and contribute to meetings with parents to constructively feedback on pupil progress/achievement.

•Administer and assess/mark tests and invigilate exams/tests

What we offer

At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:

A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.

A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.

A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.

Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. You will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.

Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.

Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.

The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.

A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.

The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.

Employee Support Schemes:

·        Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users

·        A Gym Membership Scheme

·        A Cycle to Work Scheme

·        An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support

·        An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.

·        A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more

How to Apply

Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school’s website (www.hlna.co.uk) and email them to jobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.

If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 7638 8123. The closing date for applications is midday, Wednesday 18th June 2025.

Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form:

•  Why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position.