Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Job Advertisement: HLTA

Contract type: Permanent- 37 hours per week, term time only plus 3 inset days

Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley

Salary: Scale 5 – Pts 12-17 £27,711-£30,060 (full year) £23,702-£25,711 actual

Closing date: 3rd January 2025 at Midday

Interview date: TBC

Details of the Role

The Kingsway School, part of the Education Learning Trust, are seeking to employ an HTLA to work 37 hours per week within our busy Inclusion and Diversity department.

 The post holder will work with students predominantly in year 7 who are struggling to make expected progress and present as vulnerable in a large, mainstream school.

The role of the HLTA is to support the transition teacher to deliver a curriculum that will ensure students are ready to take a full and active part in life in mainstream classrooms within The Kingsway School

This may involve delivering learning activities for individuals, groups/whole classes of students under an agreed system of supervision. 

Key Duties will be varied but will include:

Working in collaboration with and support the transition teacher:

·       to give a small group of students the platform to have a very successful secondary school experience, where previously additional needs including social communication difficulties may have been a barrier

·       to assess student baseline levels and to implement specific strategies for these students in order to allow them the best possible opportunity to maximise their progress throughout secondary school.

·       to plan high quality lessons and deliver consistently good and outstanding teaching and learning opportunities

·       to secure outstanding outcomes for all students as a result of consistently good and increasingly outstanding teaching

·       to establish a culture that promotes excellence, equality and high expectations for all students

·       to provide an environment within The Kingsway School which is vibrant and provides a supportive culture to give students the very best chance of making rapid progress

The successful candidate will be organised and self-motivated, have a high level of accuracy and proficient IT skills. They will enjoy working in a team and be able to form strong relationships with team members and students.

For full details, please refer to the full job description and person specification attached.

Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk

About ELT

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities. 

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

●      Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities

●      School improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry

●      Opportunities for professional development and leadership

●      A celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings 

●      Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

 We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).