Higher Level Teaching Assistant for Multilingual Learners
Astrea Academy Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 9BE12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
11 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,104.00 - £26,807.00 Annually (Actual)
Higher Level Teaching Assistant for Multilingual Learners job summary
Join Our Team as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) for Multilingual Learners at Astrea Academy Sheffield!
Are you passionate about education and eager to support multilingual learners? Astrea Academy Sheffield is seeking a dedicated HLTA to champion scholars for whom English is an additional language. You will work across all subject areas to enhance their learning experience and reduce language barriers without lowering expectations.
About the Role:
At the heart of our quality-first teaching offer is invisible intervention. This ensures that the additional support required for our multilingual scholars is embedded within our core curriculum, immersing them in language. In addition to classroom support, you will deliver targeted interventions to develop scholars' reading, writing, and spoken English, ensuring they succeed and feel a sense of belonging at Astrea Academy Sheffield.
What We're Looking For:
- Education Experience: You have experience within an educational setting, ideally working with Key Stage 3 and 4.
- Multilingual Experience: Previous experience working in a multilingual environment.
- Values-Driven: You align with our values and mission. If you fit with our culture, you will love working here.
- Passionate Educator: You believe that all children can achieve, regardless of their starting point, background, or needs.
What We Offer:
- Support and Progression Opportunities: Extensive support and career development opportunities.
- Knowledge-Rich Curriculum: Built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional teaching approach.
- Excellent Support: From the Astrea Trust Central team.
- Disruption-Free Learning: A ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system.
- Supportive Senior Leaders: Highly visible and supportive leadership.
- Professional Development: Excellent ongoing CPD and promotion opportunities.
- NPQ Opportunities: Chance to complete National Professional Qualifications.
- Numerous Benefits: Including local government pension scheme, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, free car parking, and more.
Why Join Us?
Astrea Academy Sheffield is committed to providing an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge and creating a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful. Our values-driven approach ensures impeccable behaviour, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and pupils to focus on learning.
Interested in Applying?
If you are passionate about education, looking for a fresh opportunity, or simply want to make a positive impact, we would love to hear from you. Take a look at the job description and candidate pack to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment. Please contact chloe.wood@astreasheffield.org to arrange a visit or to find out more about the role.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Sheffield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its scholars and expects all staff, volunteers and members of the Academy community to share this commitment.
We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent and effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, scholars and staff within the Academy. All concerns are passed through the Safeguarding Team in line with our Astrea Academy Sheffield Safeguarding Policy 2023 and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 Guidance.
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.
About Astrea Academy Sheffield
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1025 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Astrea Academy Sheffield website
At Astrea Academy Sheffield, we address our young people as scholars because we know that every single one of them is capable of outstanding academic achievements. We promote scholarship by offering an all-through curriculum which is rich in powerful knowledge and meticulously planned by subject experts. We know that powerful knowledge is the key that will open powerful doors for our scholars in the future. Therefore, we are relentlessly committed to delivering exceptional lessons in every classroom, every day.
We respect every scholars’ right to access an exceptional education and offer academic, inspiring and broad opportunities for all through both our curriculum and co-curriculum. We teach our young people to be responsible through our thoughtful character education programme and essential habit building work. Our scholars respect everyone in our academy’s community and grow their responsibility, knowing that they are the leaders of tomorrow.
We are tenacious in our commitment to do the very best for the young people in our care and this tenacity is mirrored in the way that our scholars work on their academic and character education every day.
We foster curiosity in our young people by providing them with a rounded education which opens doors to new opportunities, ideas and experiences. Our classrooms are filled with the awe and wonder that is comes from the joy of learning.
If you are interested in coming to see more of what we do, then please email info@astreasheffield.org to arrange a visit.
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