Higher Level Teaching Assistant - HLTA

Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5PD

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  31 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 4 days per week - Tuesday - Friday 08:30 - 15:30 with 30 minute unpaid break, term time only.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,647
• Actual salary: £18,538

What skills and experience we're looking for

Ignite Your Career: Step Up as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) at Shawley Community Primary!

Are you an exceptional educator with the passion, experience, and drive to make a bigger impact? Ready to own your expertise and take the lead in the classroom?

Shawley Community Primary is searching for a phenomenal HLTA to join our inspiring team four days a week.

This isn't just a support role—it's your chance to step into the spotlight. You'll be a pivotal force in our learning environment, collaborating directly with teachers and holding significant responsibility for delivering dynamic learning activities. This is your platform to truly complement, challenge, and shape young minds.

Get ready for a role where you don't just assist, you lead and innovate.

Inspire Learning

• Teach Whole Classes: Confidently take the reins and deliver predetermined lessons to whole classes when the assigned teacher is absent, ensuring learning never pauses.

• Drive Progress: Use your expertise to accelerate pupil learning, leading groups, individuals, and full classes with engaging, clearly structured activities.

Collaborate and Create

• Planning: Dive into the full planning cycle—from actively shaping lesson plans to evaluating outcomes and adjusting work plans on the fly.

• Develop and prepare resources that respond directly to the unique needs of our pupils.

Champion Inclusion and Nurture Growth

• Equality Advocate: Be the guardian of inclusion, ensuring every single pupil—regardless of specific needs, culture, or language—has equal access to opportunity.

• Motivate and Progress: Fuel pupil success with constructive, detailed verbal and written feedback on content, progress, and behaviour. Monitor every child's journey and contribute to key observation and assessment programmes.

Mentor and Manage

• Lead the Team: A significant part of your role involves mentoring, guiding, and supporting less experienced Teaching Assistants. You may even have the opportunity to lead dedicated training sessions for Teaching Assistants.

• Cultivate Excellence: Master behaviour management strategies to create a focused, purposeful, and dynamic learning environment.

• Parent Partnership: Foster strong, supportive relationships with parents/carers, potentially leading meetings to provide vital feedback on pupil progress.

Ready to Unleash Your Full Potential?

If you're an experienced educator looking for a challenging and rewarding next step where your skills are truly valued and your impact is tangible, this is your opportunity.

The LEO Academy Trust is passionately committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects the same dedication from you. If you share this commitment and are ready to contribute to a vibrant, forward-thinking school, we want to hear from you.

Join Our Team! Shawley Community Primary, part of LEO Academy Trust, is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and aims to create a supportive, inclusive working environment. We believe in a collaborative team approach, where you will contribute as an effective and collaborative member of the School team and participate in the school development plan.

If you are ready to make a significant impact on children's lives and contribute to the vibrant ethos of our school, we want to hear from you!

Using the person specification, you should describe your suitability against the person specification and ensure that you cover all essential criteria (if not marked as essential, please assume all are essential), by providing evidence and examples of proven experience.We regret that we are unable to accept CVs.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you a range of benefits, which can be found on our website, including discounted wraparound care and nursery fees.

Informal conversations are welcomed; please contact the Trust’s HR Team via recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk.

Please be aware:

• This role can only be worked in the UK from the location provided and not from overseas.
• For this role the Trust would not consider sponsoring a Certificate of Sponsorship/visa. Please note we are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
• Feedback will only be provided upon request if you attend an interview.
• In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidelines, the Trust will use internet searches, including social media searches to perform pre- employment checks on candidates in the course of recruitment. The Trust will act in accordance with its data protection and equal opportunities obligations.
• Employees working in any role that requires them to communicate with pupils, parents, guardians, staff and / or members of the community, must be able to speak fluent English to enable the effective performance of the role and to ensure that they are able to abide by their safeguarding responsibilities.
• LEO Academy Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a supportive and inclusive working environment in which all individuals are able to make best use of their skills. Applications are invited from all members of the community. We do not discriminate against staff on the basis of age; race; sex; disability; sexual orientation; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; religion, faith or belief (Equality Act 2010 protected characteristics). The principles of non-discrimination and equality of opportunity also apply to the way in which staff and Trust treat visitors, volunteers, contractors and former staff members.

Reasonable adjustments

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to support you in applying for this role, or atany stage of the recruitment process, please

• contact the Recruitment team via recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs

Safeguarding & Equal Opportunities

LEO Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. For further information, please refer to ourapplicant guideon our website.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. All employees of the Trust are deemed to be in regulated activity with children and as such, all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and for this role, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed amongst other checks as appropriate.

All shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a declaration regarding offences and have references requested (unless agreed otherwise), prior to the interview.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

HLTA JD April 2025.pdf - 219 KB (opens in new tab)

About Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery

• School type: Academy, ages 0 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 231 pupils enrolled
• Age range: Not given
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery website
• Email address: recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 020 8066 7130
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shawley-community-primary-academy

At LEO Academy Trust, we are proud to serve over 3800 pupils from across the London Borough of Sutton and Surrey. Our Trust was formed in 2015. Since then, we have developed a self-improving network of great learning communities formed from seven primary schools, supported by both our Inclusion & Wellbeing Hub and our Opportunity Hub. We are proud to provide endless opportunities for our pupils, staff and the local communities we are part of. With over 500 staff, our schools are empowered to support each other to improve both outcomes for our pupils, and to drive performance across the wider school system. We are delighted that our schools remain long standing members of the Challenge Partners Network of Excellence. Our commitment to Professional Development is ongoing; staff, governors and Trustees access training through our LEO CDP website, Judicium’s online learning portal and a wide ranging programme of courses delivered in our LEO Training Room and online via GoogleMeet. Learning, Excellence and Opportunity are at the heart of our Trust, embedded through our shared mission, values and aims.

Arranging a visit to Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk.

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