Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Melrose School, Mitcham/ Raynes Park, Surrey, CR4 3BE6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 September 2025
Closing date
20 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 39 weeks a year – 35 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- ME6 FTE: £29,346 Annual Pay (actual, pro rata): £25,520
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate HLTA who is ambitious in creating a learning culture in which our pupils will feel valued and safe. Working within our newly established Key Stage 2 provision, you will be supporting students in Years 5 and 6 and play a vital role in helping our students access learning and develop key skills. As a HLTA, you will complement teachers’ delivery of the curriculum and contribute to the development of other support staff and pupils, assisting with the delivery of individualised learning plans, providing one-to-one or small group support, and helping to manage behaviour in a calm and positive manner.
Do you:
• Have a passion for working with young people and their families
• Have a genuine desire to improve the lives of some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people in London
• Have previous experience working with SEN students and strong behavioural management skills
• Want to work with like-minded colleagues who put children at the centre of everything they do
• Consider yourself to be patient, compassionate, determined, kind, rigorous and hard-working
• Believe that education is about facilitating academic progress, personal development and life skills in a nurturing, structured environment
• Actively seek out ways to improve your practice
• Want to learn from children, as well as enable them to learn from you
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer you:
• A wonderfully supportive family of teaching, support, therapy and admin staff
• No more than 10 students in a class
• Young people who want to be in school and enjoy their time with us
• Supportive parents
• A huge building, redesigned and fully renovated to our specific requirements
• New, bespoke SEN facilities and resources
• On-site parking and secure cycle storage
• On-site gym (after school hours)
• A comprehensive induction programme for all new staff
• An extensive staff wellbeing programme
• A train station 5 minutes’ walk away (Wimbledon Chase)
• Weekly CPD
• Career progression within Whatley as we continue to grow, and across Melbury College
Further details about the role
Successful candidates will be responsible for:
• Working as a HLTA supporting learning and behaviour in lessons and unstructured times, fulfilling all duties as required by SLT
• Enable access to learning for pupils
• Assist the teacher in the preparation of resources and the management of pupils and the classroom
• To lead on particular interventions to ensure pupils make good progress
• Supervise external/internal examinations
• To assess and record students’ baseline literacy levels and to repeat these assessments as necessary when directed
• Work with pupils 1-1 or in small groups with regard to SEN needs, behaviour and learning
• To keep abreast of and share up-to-date theoretical knowledge and application in SEN to ensure pupils’ specific needs are met
• To lead the TA/HLTA Team
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Melrose School
- School type
- Special school, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- 117 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Melrose School website
- Email address
- oafam@melbury.merton.sch.uk
Whatley Campus is a small, specialist school for students with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. All students have an EHCP to support their learning and development, and ASD is their primary need
Whatley Campus is a supportive, nurturing environment with small class sizes and a range of enrichment and extra-curricular activities. We cater for students in years 5 to 11 and offer GCSE and equivalent qualifications delivered by highly specialist teachers and support staff. We opened in September 2022 in a newly renovated, state of the art building, which has been especially designed to cater to the needs of students with ASD. Every student has a staff mentor from the outset and access to 1-to-1 mentoring sessions.
Students have a bespoke timetable created to meet their individual learning needs and there is a wide range of therapeutic provision. We support students in every aspect of school life and provide them with opportunities to learn about themselves and the wider world, as well as the requirements of the curriculum. It is our aim that every young person will have the tools they need to become a successful learner and a confident individual ready for the world beyond education.
Address:
Whatley Avenue
Raynes Park
SW20 9NS
Arranging a visit to Melrose School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email oafam@melbury.merton.sch.uk.
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