Behaviour HLTA

Westminster Church of England Primary Academy, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD3 0HW

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  23 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,452.00 - £28,735.00 Annually (Actual) Band 8, points 17-22

Behaviour HLTA job summary

Thank you for taking an interest in this role.

Following the promotion of the Behaviour Lead Teacher, we are excited to recruit a Behaviour HLTA to lead and manage the Behaviour provision for our school. This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate who is highly motivated to work with children with behavioural needs.

The ideal candidate will have the skills, experience and knowledge to provide behaviour support to the school and to groups of children as well as on an individual basis. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm for all aspects of school life. In return we offer you the opportunity to contribute to the future of Westminster.

Westminster is almost twice as large as an average primary school though due to low birth rates, internal city-migration and families returning to Eastern Europe due to uncertainty around settled status, and in line with all other local schools, we have a reducing PAN from 90 to 60. Though the PAN is reducing (Y6 is 90; Y5 down is 60), as a result of unplanned mass mobility into the area, our numbers on roll are actually stable despite losing a class each year.

This unplanned mass mobility of children who are new to the country, community and school now makes up a large proportion of the school. Over the last 2 years, not including normal Nursery/Reception admissions, we have welcomed 125 new children into school (around 25% of NOR) and 68 children have moved on to other schools or moved to another country.

Significant numbers of our new children are asylum seekers and refugees and experienced severe trauma on their journey to our country, community and school. We know a number of our children have 3 or more ACEs through our Safeguarding and Inclusion work and recognise that there will be many more where we have not had notification or provide intervention.

We serve an area of extremely high socio-economic deprivation, where experience of, and aspiration to, education success has been historically and significantly low – IMD & LSOA data confirms the children live in an area that is identified as being in the most deprived 5% of the country and has become more deprived since 2015. Our constituency, Bradford East, has the highest rate of unemployment in Bradford, the lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality rates. Crime figures show that we are in the 2% most affected areas in the country. 14% classed as obese on entry into Reception and 30% of Y6 children are classed as obese. Both these figures are higher than the national and Bradford averages and are despite our priority on physical activity in PE and healthy eating in DT.

Our local community was even more adversely affected by the COVID pandemic due to its existing difficulties and is still recovering from the impact. Our community outreach work is growing; we support around 100 families in many ways including debt counselling; food bank supporting at least 30 families per week (this has doubled since 2021-22); access to benefits advisor; supporting families fleeing domestic violence; providing clothing and essential household items; support for applying to secondary schools and basic language & number skills training for parents and carers all in addition to the ongoing academic communication.

Our school was experiencing challenges to our approaches to Behaviour and Personal Development and, as a result of COVID and unplanned mass mobility, these challenges have increased resulting in our proactive work to ensure that our curriculum and approaches meet the needs of all children, including the large proportion who are new to the country, community & school. This role is pivotal to our work.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Westminster Church of England Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 516 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Westminster Church of England Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/westminster-church-of-england-primary-academy

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