Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Harris Primary Academy Mayflower, Chafford Hundred, Essex, RM16 6SA

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September

• Closing date

  14 June 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 May 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Higher level teaching assistant
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - Actual Salary £23,379.27 (38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,807
• Pay scale: Grade 5 Point 12 (Outer London)
• Additional allowances:

  Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

Inspire and transform learning with us: support your local academy as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant.

The successful candidate will have:

• GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Maths – Grade C or above;
• NVQ Level 3, or equivalent;
• Good knowledge of a range of learning barriers including special needs;
• Experience of contributing to and assessing of provision for children with a range of needs;
• Some knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Minimum two years' school based experience as a TA, or equivalent

What the school offers its staff

Harris Primary Academy Mayflower is a successful academy that was judged outstanding in every category in our May 2017 Ofsted inspection.

We are a 5 form entry primary school, opening with a Reception cohort and are growing by a year group at a time with currently 902 pupils on roll from Nursery to Year 6. This will make our academy, which was funded under the free school programme with backing from Thurrock council, the Department for Education and the Harris Federation which sponsors the free school, the biggest primary free school in the country.

We offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, 26 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays) for non term-time only employees, and many other benefits.

Further details about the role

As a Higher Level Teaching Assistant, your areas of responsibility include:

• To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed activities under an agreed system of supervision. This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or short term for whole classes and monitoring students and assessing, recording and reporting on students' achievement, progress and development. Responsible for the management and development of teaching within the academy and/or management of other teaching assistants including allocation and monitoring of work, appraisal and training.
• Under an agreed system of supervision: take a lead role within the academy to address the needs of students who need particular help to overcome barriers to learning.
• To provide support for students, the teacher and the academy in order to raise standards of achievement for all students (e.g. SEN, EAL, More Able, all underachieving groups), by utilising advanced levels of knowledge and skills when assisting with planning, monitoring, assessing and managing classes, and to encourage students to become independent learners, to provide support for their welfare, and to support the inclusion of students in all aspects of academy life.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Primary Academy Mayflower

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 969 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Harris Primary Academy Mayflower website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@harrisprimarymayflower.org.uk
• Phone number: 0203 772 4588
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-primary-academy-mayflower (opens in new tab)

Harris Primary Academy Mayflower is a thriving, diverse and friendly three form entry academy that launched in September 2014 and is funded through the free school programme. We serve the communities of Chafford Hundred and West Thurrock. We moved into our brand new building, capable of accommodating five forms of entry, in 2016, and were rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in 2017.

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