Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Harrogate High School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 4APThis job expired on 17 July 2023
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 July 2023 at 9am
Date listed
16 June 2022
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,948 - £27,344
Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary
We are looking to appoint a confident, effective and highly motivated Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) with an emphasis on Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) support, who will make a positive contribution to the achievement of all of our students. The role will require you to work alongside students in all year groups and provide support and guidance both socially and emotionally, but also to support academic progress. Applicants should be kind, resilient and patient with a good sense of humour, and be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills. The desire to see each student flourish and reach their full potential using a variety of support strategies is crucial. The successful candidate will have an awareness of safeguarding procedures within school, hold a relevant HLTA qualification and have had experience appropriate to working with children.
Commitment to safeguarding
Northern Star Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post requires an enhanced DBS Criminal check. Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
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About Harrogate High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 724 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harrogate High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@nsat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01423 548800
Northern Star Academies Trust is a partnership of eight schools currently, linked together in three hubs across North and West Yorkshire, in Harrogate, Skipton and Keighley.
The Trust Partnership employs just over 500 people, providing high quality education to just over 3000 pupils.
You can read more about our Trust Partnership in our prospectus, attached as a download.
You can also read our five-year Trust Strategy here: https://www.nsat.org.uk/about-our-trust/our-priorities/
HR services for schools in the Partnership are provided by a central HR team, established in January 2021. The team currently consists of four people, including the new People Director, supported by an external payroll provider and an outsourced legal advice service.
The team has achieved a great deal in the last 12 months to set up an HR service from scratch, with a common payroll system, centralised recruitment and resourcing, and two HR Advisers working directly with schools. The team has a critical role in ensuring the Trust maintains the highest standards of safeguarding through its employment policies and practices.
Why work for Northern Star Academies Trust?
We are a mission-driven Multi-Academy Trust, with an unwavering commitment to nurture learning in a sustainable environment so that our whole community can thrive, aspire and succeed. We offer access to a professional and supportive community of academies, fellow senior leaders, and mentors to help develop and progress your career. Each school in our Trust is unique and all of our primary and secondary academies are rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.
For further information and an application form, please visit the Trust website at www.nsat.org.uk/careers-in-the-trust/vacancies/. Completed applications must be returned to recruitment@nsat.org.uk. Please note CVs cannot not be accepted.
Closing date: 9.00am Monday 17 July 2023
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To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@nsat.org.uk.
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