Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to support Teaching and Learning in KS4 and KS5)
Fitzwaryn School
Fitzwaryn School, Denchworth Road, Wantage, OX12 9ET
- £25,069.59 - £27,141.82 per year
- New
- Salary:
- 32.5 hours per week, to be worked from Monday to Friday between 8.30am-4.00pm. 38 working weeks plus 6.48 weeks paid holiday per annum.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 6th January 2025
- Apply by:
- 29 November 2024
Job overview
The Propeller Academy Trust is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage, or civil partnership.
Job details
Location:
Salary: Grade 9, Hourly rate £17.29-£18.72. Actual salary £25,069.59 - £27,141.82.
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, to be worked from Monday to Friday between 8.30am-4.00pm. 38 working weeks plus 6.48 weeks paid holiday per annum.
Contract type: Fixed Term until 31st August 2025
Reporting to: Headteacher
Closing date for applications: Friday 29th November 2024
Interview Date: Wednesday 4th December 2024
Start date: 6th January 2025
Main purpose
A Higher-Level Teaching Assistant is required to join a team of hard-working friendly people within this Special School supporting pupils with complex learning difficulties.
- The Higher-Level Teaching Assistant will complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision and assisting the teaching staff in the implementation of the relevant Curricula.
- The successful applicant will be responsible for teaching in 2 areas of the school (KS4 and KS5) to ensure that the pupils get the best possible opportunity for achieving their accreditation.
- They will liaise with the AHT and DHT to ensure that the curriculum delivery is well planned, and all assessment opportunities are utilised.
- The HLTA will undertake recruitment/induction/appraisal/training/mentoring for teachers and teaching assistants within the areas of their responsibility.
- The HLTA will take responsibility for the class lead for 4 days a week with the fifth day being allocated to Planning, Assessment and Preparation time.
- The role will require planning, preparing and the delivery of appropriate learning activities for individuals/groups as well as for whole classes and groups of children. Monitoring pupils and assessing, recording and reporting on pupils’ achievement, progress and development are integral aspects of the role.
· The post holder will be responsible for marking and assessment.
Application process
For more information, please visit the school website and download the job description and complete our application form. Our website address is https://www.fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk
Completed application forms can be emailed to recruitment@fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk or submitted by post to Recruitment, C/O Fitzwaryn School, Denchworth Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9ET.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted. No agency applications either please.
For informal enquiries please contact us at recruitment@fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk.
Visits to the school are welcome by arrangement.
Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews arranged accordingly.
Please note, the school reserves the right to close adverts if a sufficient response is received. Early applications are therefore advised.
If you have not received communication from the school inviting you for an interview within ten working days of the closing date of the post, you can assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We thank you for your interest in the school and encourage you to apply for suitable vacancies in the future.
The Propeller Academy Trust and its member schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people according to child protection and safeguarding guidelines. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with children or vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All post holders are subject to the necessary pre-employment check, including a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check including a Child/Adult’s Barred List check (where applicable to the role in question).
Attached documents
About Fitzwaryn School
- Fitzwaryn School
- Denchworth Road, Wantage
- Oxfordshire
- OX12 9ET
- United Kingdom
Fitzwaryn School is a Special School and is part of The Propeller Academy Trust. We are located in Wantage, Oxfordshire.
Fitzwaryn is for children from 3 to 19 years whose special needs range from moderate (MLD) to severe (SLD) and profound multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) Currently there are 122 pupils on roll. The new Student Centre building opened in September 2018, providing spaces for more pupils to be admitted into the school. The school is continually oversubscribed.
The curriculum is organised so that children with similar needs can work together; each class has a mix of needs ensuring inclusion for all our pupils. Generally, each class teacher is responsible for all curriculum areas with individual subjects led across the school. Our organisation is flexible allowing individual needs to be catered for.
The school policy is to broadly follow National Curriculum subjects for all pupils from 3 – 16 years old and an Adult Curriculum model from 16 – 19 years of age thus meeting individual learning needs and encouraging the development of each child’s social and independence skills. School trips and residential visits are an important part of the curriculum offered by the school. A PMLD curriculum is in place for those pupils with more complex needs for whom National Curriculum subjects are not applicable.
The school offers accreditations; during 2023 – 2024 for the sixth form pupils we are transitioning to the offering of Entry Level Qualifications in Skills for Further Learning and Employment via Open Award.
Students can also work towards their Duke of Edinburgh Awards; we were delighted that in July 2023 some of our pupil achieved their Silver Awards.
Our Year 10 and 11s are working towards Open Awards Skills Passport.
Pupils can also achieve their Entry Level Functional Skills in English and Maths
Sport plays an important part in the school's curriculum. Pupils swim either at the local pool or at Kingfisher school when they need hydrotherapy, and there is a range of both competitive and non-competitive sports offered, as well as the use of PE apparatus and more specialised equipment for children with particular disabilities. Many of the pupils are involved in competing in sports events with other schools, both mainstream and special, and all pupils enjoy many outside trips.
In recent years Fitzwaryn’s choir has grown in popularity and they practice at lunchtime. The choir sings at local events e.g. the mayor’s carol concert.
Fitzwaryn School serves an area from Faringdon to Wantage, but a number of pupils come from Didcot, Abingdon, Oxford and surrounding villages. We also have pupils from the neighbouring Local Authorities of Berkshire and Wiltshire.
Fitzwaryn is the registered office for the Propeller Academy Trust and many of the central team are based within the school.
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