Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Theydon Bois Primary School, Epping, Essex, CM16 7DH

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  6 January 2025

• Closing date

  15 December 2025 at 11am

• Date listed

  19 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £14,070.43 Annually (Actual) Term time only, salary is annualised and paid over 12 equal installments

Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) job summary

This position is working over 4 days, 22 hours a week, Monday to Thursday, from 8.50 am to 3.20 pm, term time only.

We are seeking an outstanding, qualified HLTA who will successfully lead classes across the school, providing class cover, including for PPA, in-class support and interventions in Key Stage 1 and 2. If you are an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual, we would love to hear from you.

Good standards in English and mathematics are essential, as well as a clear understanding of what effective teaching and learning looks like in the primary phase. You need to be patient and adaptable to work with a wide range of children of varying abilities.

You must ensure you have the capacity and flexibility to be deployed across the school to provide high-quality teaching and learning whilst maintaining strong relationships and behaviour for learning.

Visits to our school are strongly encouraged. Please call to arrange an appointment. We look forward to welcoming you to our hard-working, supportive and friendly school.

Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust (EFSPT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS check and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed. Online searches are conducted on all shortlisted candidates. EFSPT is committed to equality and to making fair and equitable treatment an integral part of everything we do

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Theydon Bois Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 318 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Theydon Bois Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/theydon-bois-primary-school

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