Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
The King's (The Cathedral) School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 2UEThis job expired on 4 October 2024
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Up to 36.5 hours per week available Full or part time hours considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,024 to £36,648
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone to join our successful Learning Support Team, who shares our vision supporting students to develop a full and productive life. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, flexible, and talented individual. This is a leadership position which will often require an adaptable, decisive approach. The successful candidate will be given responsibility for monitoring the learning support provision for a specific year group, and progress with the year group through their time in the School. They will also be responsible for particular areas of SEN provision; in the first instance this is likely to be reading in Key Stage 3.
The appointed applicant will be part of a department that has high standards and achieves excellent results with their students. The Department benefits from a number of highly trained staff that includes experience working in primary schools, significant expertise in reading support and numeracy support and several of our staff hold mental health qualifications. We are part of the first cohort of the Peterborough Virtual School’s Connected Communities Project.
Applications are welcomed from colleagues with experience working with children and supporting them in their learning; relevant TA or HLTA qualifications and experience would be an advantage. They should have the confidence to deliver high quality interventions to groups of students and individuals. We will consider all applicants, including those looking ahead to future careers in teaching.
What the school offers its staff
The King’s (The Cathedral) School is a very special place to work,
educating children from seven years old through to eighteen. The School has an
incredibly strong reputation in the area and is one of a very small number of
state Schools that has retained close links to the Cathedral dating all the way
back to 1541. The School is heavily oversubscribed, staff retention is very
high, and staff will typically choose to send their own children to the school
for their education. The School places
a real emphasis on students achieving well academically alongside participating
in a wide range of sporting, musical and leadership opportunities.
The School offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities and we ensure our SEN students benefit from these. These include House Music competition, Year 7 and 9 residential trips, Duke of Edinburgh Award (Bronze and Gold), School drama performances, trips to France and Germany, sport, and attending activities week programmes. We often have SEN students in senior prefect roles in Year 13.
Further details about the role
Main Responsibilities and Duties
Interventions
- Oversee interventions in the relevant key stage.
- Observation of support in lessons with a view to discussing strategy and types of support.
- Plan provision in conjunction with the SENDCo.
- Assist the SENDCo in determining intervention targets
- Upload interventions to SIMs
- Monitor student progress (SISRA)
- Monitoring the records kept by all TA working with pupils and drawing concerns or matters of interest to the SENDCo’s attention.
Exams
- Update spreadsheet with details of exam concessions.
- Prepare exam timetables in conjunction with the SENDCo.
Transition
- Assist the SENDCo in the process of transition between KS2 and KS3.
- Assist the SENDCo in the process of transition post 16.
EHCPs
- In conjunction with SENCO and admin support prepare paperwork for EHCP review.
- Update review sheet in pupil’s EHCP file to show which actions have been taken.
- Attend EHCP annual review meetings.
- Ensure actions are relevant to outcomes in EHCP and EHCP outcomes are met.
- Assist the SENDCo in setting appropriate, specific and measurable targets for EHCP.
Leading other TAs in supporting students
- Observation of support in lessons and interventions with a view to discussing strategy and types of support.
- Carry out appraisal observations and interviews as directed by the SENDCo.
- Leading Department discussions and planning on meeting the needs of students.
- Monitoring record keeping of all TAs who are working with students to include monitoring logs and attendance sheets.
- Contributing to and leading when appropriate Department INSET on matters, strategy, planning and administration.
- Organise the planning and delivery of Key Skills and small group lessons in conjunction with the relevant HOD and SENDCo
Liaise with relevant teaching staff over the needs of pupils
- Preparation of supporting data
- Attend the relevant year group meetings and prepare the minutes in conjunction with HOD.
- Ascertain information from teachers prior to EHCP reviews.
Supporting Students
- Support students with revision strategies and help to develop new methods and materials to aid revision.
- Liaise with outside agencies such as medical services and Careers services.
Meeting with SENDCo
- Attend regular meeting with SENDCo on a regular basis (ideally once a week) to support departmental planning
Commitment to safeguarding
The King’s (The Cathedral) School fully recognises the responsibility it has under section 175 of the Education
Act 2002 (as amended), the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (as amended) and Education
and Training (Welfare of Children) Act, 2021 to have arrangements in place to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children.
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About The King's (The Cathedral) School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 7 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1251 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- baker.jm@kings.peterborough.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01733 751541
We are proud of our long-standing history and tradition going back to 1541 and embrace everything the modern world has to offer, as we look towards the future. We value, and strive to encourage, individual academic success, alongside musical, cultural and sporting achievements, within the Christian family ethos, which is central to everything we do. Our aim is to be “A Family Achieving Excellence”.
Arranging a visit to The King's (The Cathedral) School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email baker.jm@kings.peterborough.sch.uk.
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