Higher Level Teaching Assistant in Enhanced Resource Base
Sir Harry Smith Community College, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1XB12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
25 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,235.00 Annually (Actual)
Higher Level Teaching Assistant in Enhanced Resource Base job summary
Sir Harry Smith Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff to share this commitment.
32.5 hours per week
Level 4 point 12 to 16 ~ starting salary £23235 pay award pending (actual salary pro rata)
FTE is £27711
We are seeking to appoint an exceptional and experienced higher-level teaching assistant to collaborate with the SENDCo and curriculum managers on the planning and delivery across a curriculum to a small class of pupils, who are working below their current key stage level.
This is a unique and specialist role for an experienced HLTA who can demonstrate outstanding support within our Enhanced Resource Base for cognition and learning. In this role you will be the consistent presence that the pupils need during the school day, demonstrating strong behaviour management and high expectations are essential in this role. Your support to the pupils will be vital in ensuring they gain positive learning and social outcomes.
In this role, you will be expected to lead small group teaching within the ERB and support relevant teaching staff with the transition of students into mainstream education as appropriate. You will undertake any other relevant duties given by the SENDCo, and will contribute to effective assessment and planning by supporting the monitoring, recording and reporting of pupil performance and progress.
The successful candidate will:
- Be inspirational, enthusiastic, and dedicated to improving student outcomes for some of our most vulnerable students.
- Contribute to the planning and implementation of the curriculum through adaptive teaching, dynamic and imaginative delivery.
- Work collaboratively with a committed team of supportive and skilled teachers and support staff.
- Have a range of different skills to nourish the development of our young students into successful learners.
- Promote students’ independence, self-esteem and problem solving.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a successful, inclusive department who place all children at the centre of excellent teaching and learning.
We are a ‘good’ school. Our February 2024 Ofsted recognised that within SEND:
'The school has redesigned its curriculum. It has thought carefully about how to inspire pupils. The school has a well-planned and ambitious programme of learning. The school has ensured that the curriculum reflects the diversity of modern life. Pupils explain how they celebrate difference. The school has planned so all pupils have access to the curriculum without limitation. This includes those pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)’.
If you would like an information pack, please visit our website www.sirharrysmith.cambs.sch.uk. For more information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact Laura Lancaster (SENDCo) at llancaster@sirharrysmith.com.
Application deadline is 9am on Wednesday 25th June. Please send completed application forms, together with a short letter of introduction to: applications@sirharrysmith.com We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we consider that we have received an appropriate number of suitable candidates for the post.
Applicants are thanked for their interest in Sir Harry Smith Community College. Please note that only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted after the closing date.
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 are not accepted.
About Sir Harry Smith Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1094 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir Harry Smith Community College website
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