Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Alfriston School, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2TS11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
8 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 June 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
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,129.00 - £30,174.00 Annually (FTE) Bucks Pay Range 3 ISN 16-20 (£28,129-£30,174 Pro Rata) Actual Salary: £21,096-£22,630
Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary
Role: Higher Level Teaching Assistant(2x)
Salary: Bucks Pay Range 3 ISN 16-20 (£28,129-£30,174 Pro Rata) Actual Salary: £21,096-£22,630
Contract Type: Permanent, Term Time Only
Hours: Full-Time (37 Hours Per Week)
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Are you passionate about supporting young people with special educational needs and ready to take the next step in your career?
Alfriston School are looking for two committed and enthusiastic Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTA) to join our dedicated team and play a key role in supporting our students’ learning and development.
About the Role:
As a HLTA, you will:
- Support the delivery of tailored learning activities
- Lead interventions and small group sessions across a range of subjects
- Provide targeted support to students with a variety of special educational needs
- Lead classes in the absence of a teacher when required
- Promote student independence, confidence, and personal growth
- Play a key part in creating a positive, inclusive learning environment
What We’re Looking For:
- HLTA status or equivalent qualification/experience
- Experience supporting students with special educational needs (particularly MLD and communication needs)
- Ability to lead learning activities confidently and adaptively
- Strong communication, teamwork, and organisational skills
- A calm, compassionate, and patient approach to behaviour support
If you’re ready to inspire, support and make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children which will be reflected throughout recruitment. The selected candidate will be required to provide suitable references and undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before taking up the post.
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 Alfriston School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- School size
- 159 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Alfriston School website
Alfriston is an outstanding Special School with Academy status for girls aged 11-19 with moderate learning difficulties and speech and language and communication difficulties. We currently have 164 girls on roll. All the pupils have an Education Health Care Plan and are taught in small groups and with additional support. Our staff are specialist subject teachers and are experienced in working with a range of special needs and abilities.
Pupils attend Alfriston from all over Buckinghamshire and some neighbouring counties. We also have weekly boarding provision for 20 pupils.
We consider the staff team as our most valuable resource. Training and development is a high priority in the school. There is also personal support given to staff to manage the diverse and challenging work needed to support pupils with significant special needs. At present there are 70 staff employed at the school working in the teaching, support, residential and administrative teams. We are proud of the excellent standard of education provided at Alfriston.
WHY WORK FOR ALFRISTON SCHOOL?
Alfriston School is based in Beaconsfield. The school benefits from outstanding modern facilities, all of our classrooms are fully equipped with interactive screens and access to class sets of laptops or iPads. All teachers are provided with a laptop that is renewed every three years. The school enjoys a recently modernised performing arts and music facilities that include the use of a dance studio, sound/recording studio and performance space, along with our exceptional sports facilities that caters for a range of indoor and outdoor activities including mountain biking, trampolining, cycling, football and many others. The school also enjoys use of its spacious swimming pool designed by a bespoke architect, as part of an upgrade of the sports facilities at Alfriston, the architects developed a concertina-like roof structure that echoes the shape of the pitched roofs on other buildings in the area causing minimal sound reverberation which is beneficial for the use of our students with their Special Educational Needs.
Alfriston offers a wide and diverse range of professional development opportunities for staff, including the opportunity to train with Astra School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT), a local Ofsted-outstanding school-centred teacher training provider.
Alfriston School also offers staff:
• A friendly working environment
• Supportive and caring colleagues
• Excellent opportunities for professional development
• Onsite parking
• Transport links (Chiltern Line and close to the M40)
• Discount on hire of selected school facilities
• Close to local amenities
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