Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Bowness Primary School, Bolton, Lancashire, BL3 1BT

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  29 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  13 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: 22076.91 - 24504.93

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

Prestolee Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and effective Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our team at Bowness Primary School. The ideal candidate will have experience working as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant and hold a minimum Teaching Assistant Level 3 qualification.

Who We Are

As a group of schools, Prestolee Trust has a shared vision. We act as one organisation and bring context to individual needs. Our schools are geographically close and yet serve diverse communities. The vision describes the future that speaks to that community.

 

The vision for Prestolee Multi Academy Trust is that our children are prepared for the next stage of education and life in modern Britain. This means children have access to a broad rich curriculum offer with a wide range of activities. We believe in an inherently strong core of English and Mathematics, together with strong specific academic foundation subjects focused on knowledge and skills.

 

We strive for excellence in quality first teaching. Career progression opportunities and development of knowledge and skills through CPD, networks and other professional programmes and training are key to our success. Our trust is relentlessly focused on improvement; in self, in others and in the organisation.

 

About You

 We are looking for a person who has: 

• Proven outstanding experience as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant
• Experience of teaching groups of pupils at primary level
• Excellent literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills 
• Excellent skills in team working 
• Excellent skills in working with children 
• Commitment, flexibility, and enthusiasm 
• A desire for career development 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 

Our Offer 

• A dynamic and developing Multi Academy Trust of schools with a SCITT for career development in teaching and learning. 
• Opportunities across the Trust to widen skills, experience, and professional development in a variety of settings
• Welcome, friendly, and inclusive schools within the Trust 
• A committed Trust and School leadership and committed multi school teams
• Well-motivated pupils 
• A Trust committed to staff wellbeing and career development for all 

 

Closing date: Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 12pm

Interview/observation: week commencing 3rd February 2025

Start date: Monday 24th February 2025 (negotiable)

This Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services and a statutory Pre-Employment Health Check. 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Bowness Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 132 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Bowness Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bowness-primary-school-bolton (opens in new tab)

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