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Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Timbercroft Primary School

Greenwich

Salary:
Greenwich scale 5 points 12 - 15 - Actual Salary £26,179 - £27,405.61
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
31 January 2025

Job overview

Hours: 35 hours per week, 39 weeks per year

Starting Date: As soon as possible 

Timbercroft Primary School is seeking an experienced Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to join our dedicated and friendly team. As part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent, and Medway, we are committed to providing an outstanding educational experience through collaboration and a creative, entrepreneurial curriculum.

Our Timbercroft teachers and support staff work brilliantly together to create a sense of family amongst the children and their parents and carers alike. By establishing such strong relationships, we ensure that the children are happy – but also challenged. We encourage risk taking and resilience in all our children.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Provide whole class teaching and learning support
  • Deliver lessons during teachers’ PPA time
  • Plan and deliver focused intervention and booster sessions
  • Support the school’s values and contribute to its mission to create the best educational environment for all pupils

Do you have?

  • Qualified HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant)
  • Proven experience delivering whole-class lessons
  • Strong experience in literacy and numeracy intervention
  • A passion for supporting children’s learning and development

In Return, We Offer:

  • A positive, friendly, and inclusive working environment
  • A supportive school community, all working towards the same goal—providing the best for our pupils
  • National terms and conditions & Local Government pension scheme
  • Tailored CPD programmes and possible opportunities for cross-trust development
  • Early Salary access scheme and financial advice (Wagestream)
  • A comprehensive employee assistance programme 

If you are ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and be part of an incredible team, we encourage you to apply today!

Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Please submit your application online via the My New Term website before the closing deadline. We encourage you to apply early, as interviews may be scheduled as applications are received, and we reserve the right to offer the role prior to the closing date.

We welcome visits to the school. Please contact the school office to make an appointment.

Timbercroft Primary School and Maritime Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The post is subject to a successful Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks.

In line with KCSIE 2024 guidance, we reserve the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates to ensure their suitability for working with children.



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About Timbercroft Primary School

Welcome to our School profile. Timbercroft Primary School forms part of the Maritime Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust that is committed to making sure that education is meaningful.

Our Trust is made up of 11 primary schools located in Greenwich, Bexley and Kent. Though our schools may be different with their own in-school culture and community spirit, they all work harmoniously and collaboratively together within a curriculum that ensures each and every child is being equipped with leadership and life skills. At Maritime, we do this by empowering schools to drive more meaningful and enjoyable outcomes for children by having great people working for us, who commit to working hard to make an impact whatever the school and whatever the role.

Timbercroft Primary is a two form entry school from Nursery to Year 6 (3 - 11 year olds), which each phase based in one of four buildings on a large site in a residential area. Our intake is diverse with over 36 languages being spoken and a wide range of educational needs catered for! We are committed to ensuring that the children of Plumstead grow into amazing, polite, respectful, well-behaved and confident young people.

Our Timbercroft teachers and support staff work brilliantly together to create a sense of family amongst the children and their parents and carers alike. By establishing such strong relationships, we ensure that the children are happy – but also challenged. We encourage risk taking and resilience in all our children, so much so, that our feedback from feeder secondary schools is always positive: 'Children who arrive at secondary school are more than well equipped for the next stage of their journey, educationally and in their wellbeing' - Plumstead Manor, 2020

We believe learning should be exciting - our ultimate aim is to provide a highly enjoyable, enhanced curriculum which not only incorporates the National Curriculum but the needs, thoughts and ideas of every learner in our school. Our revised curriculum ensures that all of our pupils are motivated, engaged and enthused about every learning experience, inspiring them to become lifelong learners developing their cultural capital for the world in which we all live. The design of the curriculum takes into account the needs of all pupils, values their diversity and allows them to make excellent progress within their learning. Children work towards an exciting exit point which we call our 'Big Outcomes' where they can share their learning with parents and friends of the school. Big outcomes encourage entrepreneurial skills, giving children an opportunity to apply their knowledge and understanding, contextualising their learning.

The children and adults at Timbercroft have high expectations of behaviour and as a community we all work together to ensure that the school environment is positive and safe for all. We are an IQM Centre of Excellence and Flagship School for Inclusion and we are very proud of our wonderful friendly caring committed staff and children. At the core of our ethos is the belief that all children have the right to quality first teaching as part of a broad and balanced curriculum. We follow the Principles of Inclusion to promote equality, access, opportunity and the rights of children and staff in education and care and strive  to reduce discrimination against them. This is not just with SEND, we follow this for our families with English as an additional language, ethnic minority groups, our vulnerable and disadvantaged, children with anxiety or mental health difficulties and ensure groups do not experience unconscious bias in the classroom so that all teaching and learning is adapted to support and challenge all children.

So, if you are looking for a place to apply your knowledge and develop your skill set in a friendly and energised environment, then Maritime may be the place for you. All we ask for is a commitment to continue to learn and the flexibility to try new things as we strive to ensure that every single child receives a phenomenal education.


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