Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Kemsley Primary Academy, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 2RP

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,002.00 Annually (Actual) Kent Range 5 - £25,002, 4 days per week/26 hours, Term Time Only plus 5 INSET days

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

The HLTA role is vital to the school and involves the planning and preparing of lessons and learning activities. You will be required to cover full classes in the absence of colleagues. You will also be required to manage and supervise pupil behaviour, and contribute to the maintenance of effective school administration. Are you driven to enable all children to succeed? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to join us on a remarkable journey and contribute to achieving our vision to ensure that all children reach their full potential and become life-long learners.

In particular, successful applicants should have: 

The Higher Level Teaching Assistant qualification

Level 2 qualification in English/Literacy

Level 2 qualification in Maths/Numeracy

Be able to provide evidence of a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people

Have the necessary experience of teaching year groups within Key Stages 1 and 2

Excellent classroom practice with the ability to create a classroom atmosphere that is achievement orientated

You should: 

Have excellent communication skills 

Have the ability to build effective relationships with students, parents and other team members 

Have the ability to contribute effectively to support team work

Willingness and ability to move between key stages if required

ICT skills for both personal and classroom use

Highly organised with the ability to work using your own initiative

We can offer:

A good school (Ofsted February 2019) 

A bespoke CPD package to support people at every stage in their career

Opportunities to learn within a network of schools

Leadership development opportunities that help you realise your full potential

Polite and well-mannered children

Enthusiastic and inquisitive learners

Kind, caring and hardworking colleagues

An encouraging and supportive senior leadership team

Blue Light Discount

Why work with us:

There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:

▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.

▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development

▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.

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 Kemsley Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 224 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Kemsley Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kemsley-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

Kemsley Primary Academy is a member of the REAch2 Trust; a national family of primary academies committed to raising standards and achieving excellent for all pupils whatever their background or circumstance. Staff within REAch2 belong to a national community of professionals, and benefit from a wide range of networks and development opportunities across the Trust. The Trust provides a strong culture of collaboration and support, together with high expectations for staff and pupils alike.

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