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  • Start date details

    To be confirmed

  • Closing date

    21 October 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    8 October 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: 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Fixed term - 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover

Full-time equivalent salary

£26,403 to £28,142 per annum

Actual salary

Pro rata £19,948.09 to £21,261.95 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a dedicated individual to provide tailored support to our pupils. You will be committed to making a positive difference to young people’s lives and in supporting and developing their learning. Your intervention will help enable an outstanding learning environment for our young people, providing the support they need to succeed.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively support learning and teaching, and to develop relationships across our school and the Star community.

You will have:

  • Meet Higher Level Teaching Assistant standards or equivalent qualification or experience.
  • Recent experience of working in a school or other organisation with children of relevant age to promote learning.
  • Understanding and knowledge of the issues relating to students who have little or no English.
  • The ability to maintain positive relationships with students, parents and staff.
  • The ability to work independently and as part of a team to deliver identified learning outcomes.

What the school offers its staff

About Small Heath Leadership Academy

Small Heath Leadership Academy is a secondary school in Birmingham. We joined Star Academies in 2018 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.

The school was rated ‘good’ in all four areas of the inspection framework during its inspection in May 2022.

We are an ambitious school with high expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

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.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Small Heath Leadership Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1188 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
0121 464 7997

Small Heath Leadership Academy in Birmingham is a 1200 place, 11-18 secondary school and sixth form. Small Heath joined the Trust on 1 January 2018. Like all Star schools, it has “Leadership” as a specialism.

School location

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