HLTA - Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Reference: SCH4616

Hours: 30 hours per week
Weeks: 39 weeks per year

Normandy Primary School is one of two schools within Pelham Academy Trust. Normandy was graded Good with Outstanding Leadership when inspected in November 2017.

Normandy Primary School is a vibrant and exciting place to work where pupils and staff have high learning expectations and provides exciting and rewarding opportunities for staff and pupils. Our school values are ‘Happy and Bright’, an ethos clearly visible throughout the school.

We are currently have a vacancy for a HLTA to provide cover for PPA and release time in whole class settings from Nursery to Year 6. This position has arisen due to the promotion of our existing HLTA who is now training to become a qualified teacher.

 The successful candidate will be:-

• Highly motivated and creative
• A holder of a HLTA qualification
• Committed to raising standards and achievement and the learning potential of our pupils

In return we can offer you:

• A happy learning environment where everyone is valued
• Support from our friendly, ambitious team
• A personalised CPD package to support our high expectations
• A well behaved and enthusiastic pupil community

If you have a passion for making a difference in education please apply for this exciting and challenging position.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks.

The school is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery.

This post is considered to be a customer facing position; as such it falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out below. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages:

• Ability to speak with confidence and accuracy, using accurate sentence structures and vocabulary
• Ability to choose the right kind of vocabulary for the situation in hand without a great deal of hesitation
• Ability to listen to customers (staff and children) and understand their needs
• Ability to tailor your approach to each conversation to be appropriate to the customer (staff and children), responding clearly with fine shades of meaning, even in complex situations

HOW APPLICANTS SHOULD APPLY

Please email completed Bexley application forms to recruitment@normandy.bexley.sch.uk.

Closing Date for Applications: 31st August 2018 at 12 noon

Please note:

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
References will be requested prior to interview.
No recruitment agencies.
Previous applicants need not apply.

Normandy Primary School
Fairford Avenue,
DA7 6QP