Grade 8 - Higher Level Support Staff Intervention Lead

Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0EA

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Monday 27th April (or earlier for an experienced candidate)

• Closing date

  28 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  28 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,717.00 - £30,066.00 Annually (FTE) Actual starting salary £23,722.20

Grade 8 - Higher Level Support Staff Intervention Lead job summary

Grade 8 - Higher Level Support Staff Intervention Lead for individual and small group support

37 Hours per week (39 weeks) Actual starting salary £23,722.20 (FTE £27,717.00)

• Do you have an understanding of how pupils learn?

• Are you able to develop provisions that support pupils to learn?

• Can you evidence the progress that pupils make with their learning?

• Are you able to plan for individuals and small groups of pupils to support them in making progress?

• Can you model strategies to support learning to other staff and coach them to support their practice in growing?

If you answered yes to these questions then the Pupil Progress Intervention Lead is the role for you. You will use your understanding of a range of communication, engagement and learning strategies to support pupils to make accelerated levels of progress across the curriculum.

We are currently recruiting for Grade 8 - Intervention Leads to work with our Primary and Secondary Phase pupils including those based at the satellite bases.

You will work with leaders and teachers to support pupils who need extra help to make progress at school. Your role will include planning, implementing and reviewing interventions with individuals and small groups of pupils within the phase where you are working. You will be supported by our specialist teams including Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists.

Once you have settled into your role it will include mentoring other support staff across the key stage including apprentices and staff new to the role. You will offer support, advice, guidance and training to staff to ensure that the strategies used to promote learning for pupils are embedded throughout the key stage. You will be an exemplary role model of the school values and will have or be willing to develop expertise in the strategies used to support learning across the school including but not limited to:

• CPA approach to developing mathematical understanding

• Development of reading skills including phonics

• Use of alternative and augmentative communication strategies to support learning

• Understanding of strategies to support development including play based learning and establishing enabling environments

• Specialist access arrangements and how these can be used to support progress academically within mainstream provision

We will support you in your ongoing professional development to meet the needs of this role which will help the school community continually improve provision and outcomes for our children and young people.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to a check being carried out at an Enhanced level by the Disclosure and Barring Service regarding any previous criminal record.

Dorothy Goodman School is seeking to promote the employment of disabled people and will make any adjustments considered reasonable to the above duties under the terms of the Equalities Act 2010 to accommodate a suitable disabled candidate.

Dorothy Goodman School shares a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. Our commitment is underpinned by robust processes and procedures that seek to maximise opportunity, minimise risk and continuously promote a culture that embraces the ethos of safeguarding amongst our workforce.

Closing date: Friday 28th February 2025 at 12:00 noon

Interview date: To be confirmed

Candidates who have not heard by Monday 10th March 2025, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful

(please note that we are unable to provide feedback on applications)

Commitment to safeguarding

Dorothy Goodman School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

Applying for the job

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About Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 19
• School size: 387 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
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• School website: Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley website (opens in new tab)
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Dorothy Goodman School is an all age (from ages 4-19 years) SEN School.

Our children & young people have a wide variety of special educational needs and disabilities including pupils with profound and multiple learning disabilities, severe learning difficulties, moderate difficulties and those with Autism. Some children & young people also have social, emotional and mental health difficulties associated with their learning difficulties.

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