High Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Walliscote Primary School, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, BS23 1UY

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 November 2025

• Closing date

  25 August 2025 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  14 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,522.36

High Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) job summary

Hours: 35 hours per week. 8:00am - 4:00pm with 15 minute break and 45 minute lunch, both unpaid.

Interview date: 19 September 2025

A primary HLTA (Higher level teaching assistant) role is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference in children’s education, drawing on your commitment to developing pupil learning ability and knowledge accessibility. HLTAs provide essential class cover in the school and they run interventions to support children’s learning.

Working closely with class teachers, you will be helping children to expand their knowledge and play a positive role in school life. You will utilise your knowledge, creativity and listening and communication skills to help children understand the information presented. You will be able to provide varying levels of individual attention, reassurance and support with learning tasks as appropriate to children’s individual needs.

As a HLTA, every day is different and you will enjoy variety and a challenge. As a HLTA you will:

• Provide planned and reactive cover for classes from Reception to Year 6.

• Provide feedback in books through marking

• Providing support to children who need additional help with their work.

• Facilitating interventions to support children with additional needs catch up and keep up

• Helping with school trips, events and outings.

It's important that the right candidate has a good level of understanding of the emotional needs of children with autism, ADHD and attachment issues.

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

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 Walliscote Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 306 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Walliscote Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/walliscote-primary-school-weston-super-mare

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