Cover Supervisor/Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4RR11 days remaining to apply
Closing date
9 December 2025 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
28 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £14.82 - £16.07 per hour
Cover Supervisor/Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary
Tel: 01553 774666
Email: admin@fairstead.norfolk.sch.uk
Website: https://www.fairsteadprimaryschool.co.uk/information/vacancies/
- Salary – Scale F, £14.82 - £16.07 per hour
- Permanent
- Part Time
- 34.25 hours per week (less hours considered)
- Term Time plus Training Days
At Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School, we nurture and invest in our relationships. We identify each individual’s potential and work as a team to create a safe environment for everyone to grow and succeed.
We are looking to recruit a Cover Supervisor/HLTA Level 1 to work 34.25 hours a week across the school.
This role would suite somebody with a subject specialism such as Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) or Music though we would welcome a conversation with anybody who feels they could contribute to any part of the curriculum here at Fairstead.
This is your chance to join a highly committed and supportive team in an ambitious and forward-thinking primary and nursery school. Are you that outstanding individual who will share our vision for high aspiration and achievement for all? We offer an excellent caring environment in a bright, well-resourced school. We have enthusiastic and polite children, whose excellent behaviour is often commented on. Following our recent short inspection when Ofsted found ‘the school continues to be good’ the inspector also commented ‘The school’s ethos is very inclusive and all pupils are given opportunities to thrive’.
Job Purpose
To supervise whole classes to cover short term absence of teachers and to allow teachers to carry out professional duties and training. To complement 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 short term for whole classes.
Cultural Fit
Our school is developing all the time. We have implemented a curriculum that is engaging, challenging and supports teachers with their planning. Our curriculum is supported by a diverse book spine that our children love. We are a school at the heart of our community, and we feel it is important for our children to have a developed sense of their locality and be proud to be part of it.
Together with our curriculum, our pedagogic principles underpin the school culture.
- We believe we can all improve - children learn from staff as well as from each other.
- We believe in the potential of all children to learn
- We engage in deep thought about challenge and quality
- We provide opportunities to practise skills that have been learnt over time
- We sequence all learning into small steps with children’s starting points considered
- We have an openness to feedback
- We develop worked models that communicate quality and success
- We believe that children should be given feedback at all points of the learning journey
- We engage with Kagan Cooperative learning structures providing all staff with an ongoing training programme
We focus single-mindedly upon providing the best teaching we possibly can for our children. If you want to become an even better teacher than you are now, then this will be the school for you.
Working in a school where you are not aligned with the culture can be a miserable experience. So…we both need to have alignment if you come to work here!
We can offer:
- An induction package to support successful integration which includes training on cooperative learning structures
- A forward-thinking school, which is committed to improving through evidence-based research
- Friendly and supportive staff
- More opportunities to grow your career with our focused CPD programmes
- Norfolk Rewards – staff discount programme
- ECT time with other ECT’s
- Leadership development – working with colleagues to improving outcomes across the learning community supported by NPQ or equivalent courses
- PPA time with parallel class teacher to share and reduce workload
- Part of the Viscount Nelson Education Network (VNET) incorporating a tailored package of bespoke in-school support as well as a wide range of CPD opportunities across Norfolk and beyond.
- An Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
- HLTA and TA support throughout school
Essential requirements:
- Very good numeracy/literacy skills - GCSE Grade C Maths and English or equivalent
- Meets Higher Level Teaching Assistant standards or equivalent qualification or experience
- Can work at NVQ 4 level overall
- Effective behaviour management strategies
Experience of working with children of primary school age
Key Skills:
- Working knowledge and experience of implementing National Curriculum and other relevant learning programmes
- Enthusiastic, hard-working, energetic
- Able to build meaningful relationships with both children and staff
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
Our recent full Ofsted inspection graded us ‘Good’ in all areas and highlights that:
‘We are a warm, nurturing and friendly School’
‘The school considers staff’s workload and well-being, especially when making changes ‘
Visits to the school are encouraged. If you would like to visit the school, you will be assured a warm welcome. Please contact Kerry Tucker, School Business Manager, who will be more than happy to arrange your visit.
We are an equal opportunities employer. If you require any additional support to enable you to make an application or have any questions about the application process please contact Kerry Tucker, School Business Manager: by email to admin@fairstead.norfolk.sch.uk or phone: 01553 774666.
How to apply
A job description and letter from the head are available from ‘Attachments’.
To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.
Completed forms should be returned either by email to - admin@fairstead.norfolk.sch.uk or by post to Vacancies, Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School, William Booth Road, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4RR.
Closing date: 9 December 2025
Interview date: TBC
Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for appointment to this post. We are unable to accept CVs in place of application forms. Please download a job description and an application form from our school website:
As part of our recruitment process, we may conduct online checks on shortlisted candidates, focusing on publicly available information. We encourage candidates to disclose any information that may be relevant to their application. The purpose of these checks is to ensure the candidate's suitability for the role and alignment with our school’s values.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Further information about the job
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.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 433 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School website
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