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  • Start date details

    6th January 2025

  • Closing date

    4 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    20 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£26,409.00 - £28,624.00 Annually (FTE) NJC SCP 9-14 , 35 hours per weeks , 39 weeks per year (TTO plus 5 Inset days)

Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) job summary

Camulos Academy is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed HLTA who is:

  • passionate about securing positive outcomes for children.
  • highly motivated, organised, and flexible in the way you work to best meet children’s needs.
  • an effective communicator, highly skilled in building positive relationships with children, parents/carers, and professionals.
  • able to utilise planning and resourcing when covering a class.
  • reliable, flexible, and willing to support the school in moving children’s learning on

The successful candidates will:

  • Have a Level 2, or above, in English and Maths
  • Have previous experience of working effectively within a school setting.
  • Have a good standard of written and spoken English and a general understanding of Maths!

For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

Why Work with REAch2 Academy Trust?

Join REAch2 Academy Trust, one of the UK's largest primary academy trusts, with a mission to unlock the potential of every child, regardless of their background. Here’s why joining our team can be an exciting and fulfilling career choice:

    • Excellence & Development: We prioritise high standards and offer extensive professional development and career growth opportunities.
    • Supportive & Collaborative: Be part of a strong, collaborative community of over 60 schools where every voice is valued, and best practices are shared.
    • Well-being Focus: We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer robust well-being support for all staff.
    • Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives strengthen our schools.
    • Innovation & Impact: Bring creativity to the classroom and make a real difference in children’s lives.
    • Making a difference: Working with REAch2 means contributing to something bigger than yourself. You’ll be helping to shape the lives of young learners, making a meaningful impact on communities and future generations.

    Join us to grow your career, collaborate with passionate educators, and make a lasting impact on future generations.

    Benefits

    • We offer a range of benefits to support your career and well-being:
    • Generous Annual Leave: healthy work-life balance.
    • Professional Development: Access diverse CPD and training opportunities to grow your skills.
    • Flexible & Family-Friendly: We are committed to supporting flexible working and requests will be considered on an individual basis, including options such as part time, term-time, home working, and other options that work for both the employee and the Trust.  
    • Exclusive Discounts: Benefit from Blue Light Card offers and employee perks.
    • Well-being Support: Receive comprehensive well-being and employee assistance for you and your family.

    Join REAch2 for a rewarding career with great benefits!

    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.

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    About Camulos Academy

    School type
    Academy, ages 4 to 11
    Education phase
    Primary
    School size
    420 pupils enrolled
    Age range
    4 to 11

    Our school, which opened in September 2016, was built in the area known as the Northern Gateway to the north of Britain’s oldest recorded Roman town, Colchester. An area that has been developed to create a place where local people and visitors alike can choose how they can shape healthy, active lifestyles for themselves and their families.

    We are a vibrant and dynamic community and provide a rich and exciting curriculum to develop the confidence and enthusiasm for learning that will take our pupils through Primary to Secondary and beyond. Our school motto is ‘Bringing learning to Life’ and this summarises our school values and priorities. You will see this motto encompassed by the wide range of rich learning opportunities and extra-curricular clubs on offer.

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