Early Years HLTA

Lift Barton Hill, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 8JA

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  12 October 2026 at 12:48pm

• Date listed

  21 September 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £26019 - £26884 per annum

Early Years HLTA job summary

Are you a nursery lead practitioner or HLTA wanting to play a key role in the day-to-day leadership of a lovely nursery, supported by the Nursery Teacher and EYFS Lead to deliver outstanding early years provision?

Your new school
Lift Barton Hill is a lovely primary school that have been graded as 'Good' by Ofsted with an 'Outstanding' Early Years and aim for every child to have a happy and active primary education in an environment that is caring and supporting. We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced and highly motivated Nursery Lead Practitioner / Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to join our dedicated early years team at Pebbles Nursery. Pebbles is a purpose-built nursery providing a nurturing, stimulating and inclusive environment for 2 and 3-year-old children. We currently accommodate up to 15 two-year-olds and 16 three-year-olds, with exciting opportunities for future expansion. Our experienced team includes skilled nursery practitioners, a qualified Nursery Teacher and an EYFS Lead, all working collaboratively to ensure every child receives the very best start to their learning journey.

About the role
You will lead the team in creating a safe, engaging and inspiring learning environment where every child can thrive, ensuring that high standards of care, education and safeguarding are maintained at all times.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and teach lessons that are engaging and accessible to all students
• Guide and support Teaching Assistants, helping them grow through feedback and coaching
• Create and deliver intervention strategies for students who need extra support
• Build positive relationships with students and help them develop independent learning skills
• Work with teachers, parents, and pastoral staff to support each child's progress
• Help organise learning spaces and resources that meet the needs of all learners

We are looking for someone who
You'll have substantial experience working within an Early Years setting and hold a full and relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification or HLTA status (or equivalent). We are looking for somebody who has strong leadership skills and can inspire and support a team whilst working collaboratively. We're looking for someone with strong communication skills, empathy, and patience. Please note if you don't holds a current Paediatric First Aid qualification that's fine but you will need to obtain one immediately upon appointment.

How we support you
At Lift Schools, we believe talent drives performance. We offer you:

• Career development and training: Access a wide range of statutory and developmental training to boost your career.
• Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
• Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships and travel deals.

Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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.

About Lift Barton Hill

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 568 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Barton Hill website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/barton-hill-academy-torquay

More than a job...it's an adventure in education.

With 603 children on our roll and a gorgeous nursery provision (Pebbles Nursery) which opened in September 2021, we are a large 3-form entry primary school based in Torquay. The key to ensuring our children can succeed is having a caring, stimulating and stable environment in which to enjoy their childhood. We work hard to ensure the environment provided by our school allows every child to grow into happy, caring members of the community.

We are proud to be judged as 'a good' school by Ofsted with an outstanding nursery provision. We were last fully inspected in September 2023. The proportion of our children eligible for pupil premium is well above average and our dedicated teachers and support staff continue to develop a curriculum that inspires and prepares them for their future.

We are always looking for hardworking and ambitious professionals to help our students succeed. We and the Trust will provide all the support necessary to help you if you were to join us.

We hope that you will take the time to come and see and experience for yourself the warm and welcoming atmosphere here at Barton Hill.

Our Curriculum

At Lift Barton Hill we aim to make learning aspirational, creative and fun- we plan creative learning journeys for our children, based on what we know they need to learn, what is relevant for them, the National Curriculum and some of their own ideas and interests. The process of planning a creative, quality rich learning experience is consistent throughout the school.

We have used information in the National Curriculum and are careful to plan a high quality starting point, or focus for the creative learning journey- something real for the children to experience, often a well-planned high quality trip, exploring the local environment and beyond.

The teachers introduce the theme to the children- and get their input to be added to the web diagrams. They decide on what the final experience is going to be for the learning journey (for example- this could be an exhibition, a performance, a trip etc.)

Our curriculum map skills and the National curriculum are used as signposts along the creative learning journey to ensure continuity and progression- we use them in a cross curricular way (so for instance, letter writing might be taught through a project all about Power of reading book being studied).

Our Specialism and Awards

We hold International School Status and the Arts Mark 'gold' award for our creative curriculum.

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