Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Ridgewood School, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7UBThis job expired on 9 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible after appointment
Closing date
9 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
25 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,348.00 - £22,124.00 Annually (Actual)
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) job summary
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Contribute to the leadership of the SEN team, working with the SENCo, SEN Manager and other HLTAs
Help students to further develop literacy, numeracy, ICT, problem solving and study skills
Plan and deliver intervention sessions to students, helping them to self-regulate effectively
Develop, agree and implement a time-bound action plan with groups and individual children and young people and those involved with them based on a comprehensive assessment of their strengths and needs. Developing SMART targets and activities to remove barriers to learning
Update Provision Maps to ensure support for students is accurately tracked and monitored
Keep accurate records of timetables and class lists for SEN interventions, and inform the Data team, so that SIMs registers are accurate
Produce individual timetables for students accessing interventions and ensure relevant staff and the attendance team have copies
Provide a point of contact for vulnerable students, discuss problems with students and contribute information to relevant pastoral staff
To provide regular feedback about students to appropriate colleagues.
Liaise with outside agencies as required
Make regular phone calls and hold meetings with parents who access SEN interventions
Support with the transport and attend meetings to review progress of students with SEN who attend alternative provision
Ensure all students accessing SEN intervention are registered each lesson and inform attendance
Play an appropriate part in child protection procedures, such as relating relevant information and recording/reporting disclosures to the designated teacher/relevant professional
To participate in the school’s Staff Development Programme by attending INSET, meetings and opportunities for further training and professional development as outlined in your Performance Review and whole school training plan
Supervise students with SEN who have detentions and isolation
Be the identified ‘Key Worker’ for an identified cohort of students
Cover the responsibilities of other members of the SEN leadership team and Key Workers as required
Miscellaneous
To play a full part in the life of the school supporting its distinctive ethos and values, and actively promoting its policies and practices.
To take an active role in encouraging our most vulnerable learners to engage in the extra-curricular thread of school life.
To dress in a professional manner in line with the school dress code.
To undertake such other reasonable tasks that your Line Manager may from time to time reasonably request.
To engage actively in the Performance Management Review process.
To be aware of the responsibility for personal Health, Safety and Welfare and that of others who may be affected by your actions or inactions.
To co-operate with the employer on all issues to do with Health, Safety and Welfare.
These duties and responsibilities should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor exclusive as the postholder may be required to undertake other reasonably determined duties and responsibilities commensurate with the grading of the post.
To undertake appropriate training as required in order to be able to undertake the duties and responsibilities that are required.
The duties may be varied to meet the changing demands of the school at the reasonable discretion of the Head.
To comply with the Academy’s policies and procedures at all times.
To work and process personal and sensitive information in accordance with Data Protection Act 2018 including the General Data Protection Regulations.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
About Ridgewood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1457 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ridgewood School website (opens in new tab)
Staff and students at Ridgewood work hard every day to embody the school’s core values: Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. We are enjoying a trajectory of continued success and look forward to welcoming a successful applicant who can join us on our journey. We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made as a school, having laid strong foundations for further improvement going forward.
Our school motto, ‘Prepare for the road ahead’, represents our belief in preparing our staff and students for their future. We exemplify our motto not only in terms of academic achievement, but also in terms of the training, enrichment and experiences which make us all model citizens. Our school values underpin what we do and contribute to our ethos in everything we undertake as a school community. We set our standards high and do not compromise, because we believe in the best for everyone.
Never has there been a better time to join us. We are in the early stages of planning a multi-million-pound new build that will ensure that the staff and students benefit from 21st Century resources. We are regularly oversubscribed in Year 7 and our Post-16 provision is thriving.
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