Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Chellow Heights Special School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9 6AL13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 hours per week - term time only plus 5 days Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 8:30am - 3:15pm, Wednesday 8:30am - 4:45pm & Friday 8:30am - 3pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £22,813 - £24,781
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you looking for the next step in your career? Do you have a passion for working with children and want to help make a difference to their lives? Come and join the team at Chellow Heights.
We are recruiting a Higher Teaching Assistant to join our expanding team, working in small classes of pupils in a special school setting. You will have experience working with children with a range of special needs and be an outstanding practitioner with passion and commitment to making a difference. The successful candidate will support pupils in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 and will complement, appreciate and support the role of teachers and other professionals by undertaking work/care/support programmes which enables access to learning in the community as part of a teacher planned approach. You will take responsibility for the implementation of learning activities/work programmes under an agreed system of supervision with individuals/groups, in or out of the learning environment. This will include assisting the teacher in the whole planning cycle and the management/preparation of tasks/resources. You will work as part of a team of specialist staff to contribute to the effective and efficient teaching and learning of pupils with additional needs.
What the school offers its staff
Chellow Heights school is a large special school which is located on two separate sites. Both sites offer exceptional learning environments for our pupils which enhance their learning and quality of life experiences. These include an outstanding outdoor provision, multi-sensory rooms, soft play, food technology rooms and our ‘engine’ rooms which are used to support our pupils with their sensory processing.
Our West Site is the larger provision and in addition to the resources highlighted above, also boasts a multi-sensory hydrotherapy pool, rebound therapy room, music therapy room and jungle gym (soft play room).
Our South Site is a much smaller provision in terms of the size of building yet capitalises brilliantly on the large outdoor space available.
Our mission statement ‘ Enjoy, achieve, excel, excite, one vision, one community, new heights ’encapsulates our purpose. We believe that children learn best when they are having fun and enjoy what they do. Although located on two separate sites (South & West), we are very much one community with one vision to provide a personalised education to our pupils.
The post will be based at our West site.
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.
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About Chellow Heights Special School
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 11
- School size
- 254 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- hradmin@chellowheightsschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01274484242
Chellow Heights is a generic special school for learners aged 2 – 11 years. We are based on two sites. The main site is in the west of Bradford, located within a campus of schools, Heaton Primary, Belle Vue Girls High School, Beckfoot Upper Heaton Academy and High Park School an all age school for Communication and Interaction. Our second, smaller site is in the south of Bradford at Low Moor. It is not co-located.
Our pupils come from across Bradford and reflect the diverse population of the district. Pupils attending Chellow Heights School are learning at levels below those expected of their mainstream peers and their needs can best be met in a special school rather than a mainstream school. Our pupils usually have a Statement of Educational Needs or an Educational Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which names Chellow Heights as an appropriate school. A minority come to us on an assessment placement before a Statement or EHCP has been issued or finalised. All pupils are placed with us by the Local Authority.
The vast majority of pupils also have a range of physical, medical, sensory, communication and social, emotional and mental health needs needs which may impact on their ability to learn and may result in the need for additional support through one or more of our Intervention Teams. For many pupils their additional medical needs also impact on their ability to attend school. We have close links with the NHS.
The school opened in April 2010 with 54 pupils we now have over 250 children on roll over the two sites. The west site is built on two floors and has 17 classrooms and other specialist rooms The south site is a single story building designed for 49 pupils and has 74 on roll. It also has some specialist areas. We are still developing both sites with new areas to help our pupils develop and learn our main focus this year is to develop a small animals pet area in our field on the South, Low Moor Site and to further develop the Sensory Gardens on both sites and the Forest School area on the south. A new five year business plan will be published shortly showing our priorities future developments.
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