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Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)- Higham Lane North Academy
Higham Lane School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0BJThis job expired on 18 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
18 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,086 - £31,131 per year
What skills and experience we're looking for
Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Higher Level Teaching Assistant for a September 2025 start.
Under the guidance of the SEND Coordinator, you will take an active role in ensuring that the school meets its needs for SEND children, primarily in the Specialist Resource Provision. You will be responsible for supporting pupils with additional needs primarily within the SRP, either individually or in small groups, to help them access the full curriculum. This support will take place both inside and outside the classroom. Whilst the role is based primarily within the SRP ,your expertise will also work with the children within a mainstream setting.
General Duties and Responsibilities
BROAD DESCRIPTION:
To advance pupils’ learning in a range of classroom settings, including working with individuals, small groups and occasionally with whole classes where the assigned teacher is not present.
To support the work of a qualified teacher and, under an agreed system of supervision, have responsibility for agreed learning activities.
This involves undertaking specified work, involving planning, preparing and delivering learning activities to individual pupils/groups or, short term, for whole classes and monitoring, assessing, recording and reporting on pupil development, progress and attainment.
Responsibility for people (other than employees supervised/managed):
The post has considerable impact on the wellbeing of individuals or groups, through contributing to policy development and review and to the development and delivery of learning activities.
Responsibility for staff:
The post has some responsibility for others, through demonstrating good practice, guiding/advising and directing other staff/volunteers who support teaching and learning.
Responsibility for budget:
The post has no direct responsibility for financial resources, though could be involved in occasional handling small amounts of cash, processing cheques, invoices etc.
Responsibility for physical resources:
The post has some direct responsibility for physical resources, including safe/secure record keeping and maintenance and management of learning resources.
- TYPICAL TASKS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support pupils’ learning including working with individuals and small groups, using detailed knowledge, experience, specialist skills and training.
- Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model, demonstrating positive values, attitudes and behaviour and setting high expectations.
- Create, write, update and review targets on pupil passports termly and distribute to staff
- Promote independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self- reliance
- Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement
- Assist with pupil supervision on trips off the premises, under overall guidance of the teacher.
- Provide for general care, safety and welfare of pupils, which includes tasks connected with their social inclusion and support with personal care and physical care (such as placing students in and out of standing frames)
- Organise and manage learning activities (including learning environment and resources) in ways which keep pupils safe.
- Under agreed system of supervision, plan and prepare teaching and learning objectives, adjusting activities/work plans as appropriate
- Monitor and evaluate pupil responses to learning activities using a range of assessment and monitoring strategies, against pre-determined learning objectives.
- Objectively assess, provide feedback and reports as necessary on pupil development, progress and achievement.
- Within the school’s discipline policy, apply behaviour management strategies and techniques to manage behaviour constructively and contribute to a purposeful learning environment.
- Support the role of parents in pupils’ learning and contribute to meetings with parents to constructively feedback on pupil progress/achievement.
- Administer and assess/mark tests and invigilate exams/tests
What the school offers its staff
At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. You will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.
Employee Support Schemes:
- Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- A Gym Membership Scheme
- A Cycle to Work Scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
- An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.
- A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more
Further information about the job
How to Apply
Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school’s website (www.hlna.co.uk)and email them to jobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.
If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 7638 8123. The closing date for applications is midday, Wednesday 18th June 2025.
Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form:
- Why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will be taken through the Trust's vetting procedure.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks:
childcare disqualification
DBS
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must let us know about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Higham Lane School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1477 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Higham Lane School website
- Email address
- joba@hlna.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476388123
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College is a heavily over-subscribed, 11-18, comprehensive academy with just under 1500 students, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections. The school and sixth form college forms part of the Central England Academy Trust and schools within our trust work closely together, bringing many benefits to both students and staff.
We are delighted that our most recent Ofsted inspection in May 2025 confirmed that Higham Lane School has taken effective action to maintain the high standards identified in our previous Outstanding inspection. Inspectors praised our warm, respectful and aspirational school culture, where pupils thrive both academically and personally. They highlighted our ambitious, knowledge-rich curriculum, exceptional sixth-form provision, and the strong outcomes achieved by our students. The report commended our students’ excellent behaviour, attendance, and engagement, as well as the inclusive support we provide for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND. Our commitment to personal development was also recognised, with a wide range of enrichment opportunities helping to shape confident, compassionate young people. With an Achievement 8 score of 52.05 in 2025, this is significantly above the national average of 45.9 from 2024. Higham Lane remains one of the highest-achieving non-selective comprehensive schools in Warwickshire. We are also proud to hold World Class Schools status, awarded in July 2021, reflecting our continued drive for excellence in all areas of school life.
We are also delighted to have achieved equally as impressive A level results in our Sixth Form with 30.7% A*-A and 61.5% A*-B, an average grade of B- and a Value Added score of +0.27 (2024), making Higham Lane one of the top performing Sixth Forms in Warwickshire. We are excited by the opportunities which our recent merger with the Central England Academy Trust will bring us and are also delighted that the Department for Education has given the Trust permission to open a new secondary Free School, Higham Lane North Academy, opening in 2025 and this is already providing exciting opportunities for staff development, recruitment and retention.
Our school has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to “Be the best you can be”, by working hard, being kind and taking responsibility.
At Higham Lane, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
excellent continuous professional development,
reduced workload,
behaviour for learning that empowers teachers to teach and students to learn,
a range of imaginative approaches to ensure staff wellbeing,
opportunities to work across the MAT in a successful and growing trust.
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