Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Oakfield First School, WINDSOR, Berkshire, SL4 3RU

15 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  27 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £15,163.00 - £16,511.00 Annually (Actual) 3 full days

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

This role would require you to cover lessons for sickness or absence and allow leaders to have their additional leadership time. You will be responsible for timetabling your support across all Key Stages.

As an HLTA you will be required to plan the lessons you are delivering and will therefore, be given time to plan these sessions. Training and guidance will be given to ensure you have an understanding of the National Curriculum requirements and the how to plan and deliver successful lessons.

You will be required to teach across both Key Stages and will need a good level of English and Maths to ensure children are taught the correct information. You will have a growing knowledge of Rosenshine's 10 Principals of Instruction that underpins the way we deliver the curriculum and more training, in these principals, will be also give to you during the year.

You will also have excellent communication skills in order to promote a whole school ethos and culture where all staff support children to develop tools and techniques to remove their barriers to learning, to become the best possible version of themselves.

This is an exciting role and will allow our school to move forward with delivering a curriculum which equips children with the skills to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.

Safeguarding This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks.

Support Staff Enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; online checks; identity and right to work.

References All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Rehabilitation of offenders This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Commitment to safeguarding

Oakfield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Oakfield First School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 9
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 276 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 9
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oakfield First School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oakfield-first-school

Oakfield is a community First School, with pupils from Reception to Year 4, with a strong local reputation for inclusivity, academic excellence and innovative leadership, which is underpinned by a broad, balanced and engaging curriculum, enriched with multiple opportunities for wider learning and participation in the arts and sports. Our school statement of values, 'Excellence through Partnership in Learning', embodies our philosophy of a meaningful partnership with the parents, staff and the community.

We are part of the Windsor Learning Partnership which includes Windsor Girls’ School, The Windsor Boys’ School, Clewer Green C of E First School, Dedworth Green First School and Dedworth Middle School. We all collaborate to provide opportunity for all through partnership. This position is a significant leadership role and will offer ample opportunities for career development within a growing, dynamic Multi-Academy Trust.

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