Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Job Title: Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Location: Staffordshire

Salary: £18,582 - £20,692

Start Date: January 2025

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Working Hours/Pattern: Part-Time, 28.75 hours per week, 39 working weeks per year 

Are you passionate about making a difference in children's' lives? Do you have the skills and enthusiasm to support and inspire young minds? Our vibrant school community is looking for a dedicated Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our Three Peaks team.

As a Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA), you will take on a pivotal role in the classroom, leading lessons and providing targeted support to students. You’ll collaborate with teachers to plan and deliver engaging activities, manage classroom behavior, and assess student progress. Your efforts will help create a positive and productive learning environment, ensuring every student has the opportunity to succeed.

Our School

Three Peaks is a Primary Academy serving families from predominately, the Stonydelph and Wilnecote areas of Tamworth. Three Peaks is part of The Creative Education Academies Trust and converted to an academy on December 1st 2014.

At Three Peaks Academy, we believe that our strength lies in our unity. Working together as a cohesive team is essential to creating a nurturing and dynamic learning environment for our pupils. Our commitment to collaboration ensures that every member of our community—pupils, staff, and families—feels valued and supported.

Our academy is built on five core values that guide our actions and decisions: Pride, Respect, Community, Excellence and Ambition.

Our ideal candidate would:

• support the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision. This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or for whole classes.
• monitor pupils and assessing whole classes under an agreed system of supervision.
• undertake the job description of a Teaching Assistant at NVQ 3 level but to a higher level of expertise and experience, able to undertake or contribute to the development of strategies and policies and able to work with greater freedom and initiative.
• deliver whole class learning to release a class teacher for PPA or other non-contact time. 

Requirements:

• Higher Level Teaching Assistant qualification (equivalent
• qualification) or higher
• Level 2 qualification in English and Maths (GCSE or equivalent)
• Experience in working in a primary school.
• Knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum.

About Creative Education Trust

Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 13,500 children and young people.

We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.

CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development:

CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust. We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.

Next Steps:

We encourage visits to the school. If you are interested in finding out more about this opportunity and potentially arrange a tour please contact Simi Sandhu , Business Support Officer at simi.sandhu@threepeaksacademy.org.uk.

Application Closing date: Friday 29th November 2024*

Interviews: TBC

*We encourage applicants to submit their applications promptly, as we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.

Essential Information: 

Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers, workers and all other members of the school community to share this commitment.

The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education. All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks and referencing prior to interview, and all offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS Check and where appropriate a Prohibition from Teaching search. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.