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Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Courtlands School, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5JS

This job expired on 5 June 2022 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  5 June 2022 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 May 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern:
  • Part time
  • 35 Hours per week Monday- Friday 39 weeks per year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,953
• Actual salary: £19,404

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking to recruit outstanding HLTAs to join the team. We are looking for people with a real passion for working
in an environment with complex but rewarding children in a supportive and compassionate environment. You will
complement the work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning 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 pupils and assessing, recording and reporting on pupil’s achievement, progress and
development. The successful candidates will demonstrate an informed and efficient approach to teaching and
learning by adopting relevant strategies to support the work of the teacher and increase achievement of all pupils
including, where appropriate, those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and use effective behaviour
regulation strategies consistently in line with the school’s policy and procedures.

We can offer you a motivated and skilled staff team and a real opportunity to make a difference to the future of our
wonderful children and school. We look after our staff with award winning care for their wellbeing (National Wellbeing
in Schools Award 2019). You will receive training in a wide range of areas and mentoring from a line manager and
Leadership team whose door is literally open all the time.

For the last three years we have been on a journey to become a trauma informed community, responding to the
adverse childhood experiences of many of our pupils, including challenging school experiences before being matched
with the right setting for them. We believe that every interaction, no matter how fleeting, is the opportunity for an
intervention to help our pupils grow as people who know how awesome and valued they are, especially at times they
are struggling and communicate through unkind or unsafe behaviour. We want staff who see the children’s challenges
for what they are, who can use PACE with the best of them, and can remain calm under pressure.

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 Courtlands School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 100 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Courtlands School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: Tftrecruitment@deltservices.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/courtlands-school (opens in new tab)

Courtlands Special School Academy is a friendly and ambitious academy in Plymouth which caters for primary aged children (4-11) with Moderate Learning Difficulties and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. Our innovative curriculum is based on meeting individual’s needs rather than schemes of work, and provides a wide range of curriculum and therapeutic input.

We are leaders in our field, having won numerous national awards for our work, and work in a Trauma Informed way to support our children to overcome their difficulties and make great progress in all areas of their development. We constantly strive for the best ways to support our children, and welcome innovation and new, evidence based ways of working.

You will need high levels of emotional resilience, and good coping strategies born out of successful experience of teaching and supporting children with complex needs including Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties such as ADHD and attachment disorders; Communication and Interaction needs such as ASC and Speech and Language Difficulties. This could be in either a special school or mainstream school, with mainstream experience being an advantage.

We can offer you a motivated and skilled staff team and a real opportunity to make a difference to the future of our wonderful children and school. We look after our staff with award winning care for their wellbeing (National Wellbeing in Schools Award 2019). You won’t be taking marking home to do in the evening, and you will be given the freedom to meet the needs of the pupils in your class, along with the resources to do it. You will receive training in a wide range of SEND and real time support and mentoring form a Leadership Team whose door is literally open all the time.

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