Higher Level Teaching Assistant - HLTA

The Trafalgar School at Downton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 3HN

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  December 2026 or aa soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  19 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £28,154.00 - £29,541.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £13,089

Higher Level Teaching Assistant - HLTA job summary

Main Purpose

To provide day-to-day support, supervision, and guidance for students accessing our Learning Gateway provision due to EBSA, anxiety, low mood, or other medical barriers to mainstream learning. The role focuses on developing positive relationships, supporting learning activities, promoting wellbeing, and helping students build confidence and readiness for gradual reintegration into mainstream lessons.

• Provide a calm, supportive, and consistent presence in the Learning Gateway throughout the school day
• Welcome students into the provision, complete check-ins, and monitor their emotional wellbeing
• Supervise learning sessions, ensuring students remain engaged and feel safe and supported.
• Provide academic support for the Learning Gateway online curriculum
• Adapt tasks and provide scaffolding to help students access Learning Gateway curriculum materials at an appropriate level
• Encourage positive study habits, independence, and confidence
• Build strong, trusting relationships with students, using compassion, patience, and relational practice
• Support students experiencing anxiety, distress, or overwhelm using de‑escalation and co-regulation strategies
• Provide supportive listening and timely reassurance in line with school safeguarding and wellbeing policies.

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

The Trafalgar School at Downton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants will be subject to a full enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and online check before the appointment is confirmed.

References from current employers will be taken for shortlisted
candidates, employers may be contacted to gather further information. Without satisfactory references, an offer of employment will not be confirmed.

Unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 must be declared.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Trafalgar School at Downton

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 808 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: The Trafalgar School at Downton website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-trafalgar-school-at-downton-salisbury

The Trafalgar School at Downton is a friendly, rural, secondary school set in the historic village of Downton on the edge of the New Forest National Park.

Our values define us and underpin our ambition of a life fulfilled through empowerment. These values apply to our staff, as well as to our student community, so we seek a colleague who is:

Aspirational
Who has a strong desire to achieve greatness in everything they do. They are ambitious.

Compassionate
Who understands how other people feel and support each other. Staff recognise when someone is struggling and we help them.

Determined
Who is focused to achieve, even when a task is difficult. Staff remain committed to our end goal until we complete it.

Inclusive
Treats everyone fairly and equally and understands that difference is something which makes society better.

Integrity
Always does the right thing, even if no-one is watching

Respectful
Treats people, including ourselves and our environment, with respect. Shows consideration of other people’s feelings and wishes.

We are committed to empowering young people to be the source of their own success.

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