Cover Supervisor/HLTA Split role (fixed term maternity cover)

Aqueduct Primary Academy, Telford, Shropshire, TF4 3RP

Deadline is tomorrow

Start date details
Monday 4th November 2024
Closing date
27 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 September 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £23,500.00 - £24,292.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Telford & Wrekin SCP 5-6 (cover supervisor) SCP 7-11 (HLTA role) Salaries will be pro rata to 38 weeks per year (Term time only)

Cover Supervisor/HLTA Split role (fixed term maternity cover) job summary

Aqueduct Primary Academy is looking for an enthusiastic Cover Supervisor/HLTA to join our team for a fixed term 9 month Maternity cover from November 4th 2024 to July 31st 2025. 

We welcome applications from experienced support staff who believe they can make a positive difference to learning by providing our children with exciting and memorable experiences. You will supervise a prepared lesson in the absence of a class teacher, ensuring that in doing so the pupils’ learning and development is continued and maintained.  You will also need to have the ability to communicate the work set by the class teacher to the pupils; ensuring that they are aware of expectations for both behavior and task completion. 

This is a dual role and the salary will be split as follows to reflect this:

6 hours per week-HLTA at SCP 7-11

23.75 hours per week - Cover Supervisor at SCP 5-6

The working pattern for this role is: 8;30am to 4.00pm four days per week and 8:30am to 3.45pm one day per week.

The successful candidate will:

Have a positive outlook to ensure the children are at the heart of all your actions. 
A passion for empowering children to reach their maximum potential. 
Have experience of working with children of primary school age. 
Have a recognised HLTA qualification

We would like to hear from you if you have:

Excellent written and spoken communication skills 
Excellent organisational skills 
Excellent ICT skills 
Ability to use own initiative and work as part of a team 
Ability to work in a highly pressured environment to meet demands and deadlines 
Flexibility in your approach and thinking

Why work with us:

There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:
 
▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
 
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
 
▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.

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.