Cover Supervisor/Senior Teaching Assistant

St Hild's Church of England School, Hartlepool, TS24 9PB

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  14 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share): Monday to Friday 37 hours per week
• Contract type: Fixed term - Fixed term to 31st August 2026
• Full-time equivalent salary: Band 9 £30,559 - £32,654 per annum (Actual salary £26,521 - £28,339 per annum pro rata)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a colleague who has:

• Knowledge of ICT applications used to support pupils in the classroom.
• Experience of working with young people, professionals and other agencies.
• Experience of selecting and preparing resources to support learning, including appropriate filing and presentation of pupils work.
• Abilityto use language and other communication skills that children can understand and relate to.
• Ability to provide specialist support to pupils with learning, behavioural, communication, social, sensory or physical difficulties.

What the school offers its staff

Inreturnweoffer:

• Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across our trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
• National living Wage, meaning everyone at NEAT Academy Trust receives a minimum hourly wage of £12.60 per hour.
• Cycle to work scheme offering savings on a range of bikes and safety equipment via salary sacrifice.
• Access to free eyes tests for DSE users.
• Opportunities for flexible working. Discounts for large national retailers and local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, insurance and much more.
• Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pensions Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
• Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
• Family friendly schemes such as maternity, paternity, shared parental and emergency dependent leave.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

This role is term time only with plus 5 training days and fixed term to 31st August 2026.

St Hild's Church of England School is seeking to appoint a Cover Supervisor/Senior Teaching Assistant to collaborate with teachers in planning and delivering programmes of teaching and learning activities for classes.The primary focus for this role is to undertake educational activities with individuals, groups or whole classes within a framework agreed with, and under the direction and supervision of, a qualified teacher.

St Hild’s Church of England School is in an exciting phase of its development and has high ambition for its pupils. With a strong Christian ethos we work effectively across the whole community to improve and enrich the lives of children. We are incredibly proud to be an inclusive school with a higher than average number of children who have additional needs. As a result we prioritise high quality classroom teaching and provide bespoke support where appropriate. Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture,educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East.

Interested? If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying Person Specification and Job Description and complete an application form by clicking ‘apply now’ no later than midnight on Thursday 14th August 2025.

Expected interview dates - week commencing 18th August 2025

NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.

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

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Cover Supervisor Senior Teaching Assistant Person Specification.pdf - 220 KB (opens in new tab)

Cover Supervisor Senior Teaching Assistant Job Description.pdf - 141 KB (opens in new tab)

About St Hild's Church of England School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 617 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Hild's Church of England School website
• Email address: d.gillies@neatat.org.uk
• Phone number: 01429 273 041
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-hild-s-church-of-england-school

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