Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Kenyngton Manor Primary School, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, TW16 7QL20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
14 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 June 2025
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
- £23,021.00 - £25,045.00 Annually (Actual)
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) job summary
Monday to Friday, term-time role
Qualified HLTA
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £29,787 to £32,406 per annum.
Pro Rata Salary: £23,021.36 to £25,045.49 per annum (based on working arrangements)
We have an opportunity for a motivated Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to join us at Kenyngton Manor Primary School in September 2025. In this role you will cover classes under professional supervision of a teacher or leader, plan and deliver programmes for groups of pupils, support identified students with special educational needs and/or disabilities to enable them to access the curriculum. You may line manage Learning Support Assistants with oversight of the Leadership Team.
What are we Looking For:
- Excellent interpersonal and listening skills, with a commitment to helping.
- An HLTA technical/professional qualification related to the role. e.g. HLTA status, NNEB, or other relevant qualifications at level 2 or 3.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Competence with IT tools and ability to analyse and present data.
- Experience working in a similar role within education or SEND environments.
If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact the THPT HR Team by email at hrteam1@thpt.org.uk
Tours to the school are warmly welcomed, if you would like to request a tour of the school, or meet with us informally, then please email the HR Team.
All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.
The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
We really want you to shine as part of our application and selection process so that you can truly perform at your best and feel comfortable. Our processes are extremely flexible. Please let us know what we can do so that you can be at your best throughout the application and selection stages, just contact us by email for an informal chat.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.
Values and Behaviours
We are a values-based organisation and seek to recruit individuals who can demonstrate our values. Please ensure your supporting statement reflects our values.
Our values are:
- Integrity – displaying honesty and having strong moral principles
- Partnership – working together and taking collective ownership to achieve the same goals
- Advocacy – working hard on behalf of others to maximise their success
- Resilience – finding success again after something difficult or negative has happened
- Compassion – displaying empathy towards and a desire to help others
- Aspiration – aiming high to achieve success
Safeguarding and Further Information
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.
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.
About Kenyngton Manor Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 465 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kenyngton Manor Primary School website
School location
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