High-Level Teaching Assistant
Oxted School, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0AB26 days remaining to apply
Closing date
9 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant, Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,500.00 - £27,742.00 Annually (Actual) £29,787 to £32,406pa FTE
High-Level Teaching Assistant job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated individual looking to take the next step in your educational career? We’re seeking a dedicated Higher Level Teaching Assistant to become a valued member of our friendly and hardworking team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Teaching Assistant who is ready to broaden their responsibilities and further develop their professional skills. Working closely with the Deputy SENCo, you will play a key role in supporting our students in Key Stage 4, particularly through delivering targeted English interventions and contributing to the SEND pathway.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has a passion for helping students thrive and reach their full potential.
- Brings creativity and confidence to the classroom, using imaginative approaches to inspire learning.
- Is a flexible, proactive team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Holds a HLTA qualification or is keen to train towards achieving it.
If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and continue growing in a supportive environment, we’d love to hear from you.
All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.
The Howard Partnership Trust is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.
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 are not accepted.
About Oxted School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1708 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Oxted School website
School location
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