HIGHER LEVEL TEACHING ASSISTANT

Loxley Primary School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S6 6SG

44 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February 24th 2025 (or April 14th 2025 if a notice period to a current employer needs to be given

• Closing date

  3 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 4 days per week (25 hours per week) Days to be confirmed.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £16,531 - £17,947 p.a
• Pay scale: 15-20

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Meet higher level teaching assistant standards or equivalent qualification or have comparable relevant experience
• Excellent numeracy/literacy skills in order to be able to teach from Reception to Year 6.
• Relevant career and professional development in primary education.
• We need a candidate who can balance a drive for high attainment for all pupils with a commitment to pupils’ personal development and well-being.
• The appointee will be required to support in classes and lead whole class groups as required. Although not essential, we would welcome applicants who have an interest in any aspect of the Arts (for example, fine art, music or performing arts).
• The person appointed will have the ability to build excellent nurturing relationships with children and purposefully help them move forward with their learning.
• The successful candidate should be keen to co-operate with current staff and able to work under instruction as well as having the ability to use initiative. Competency with reading and mathematics to Year 6 level and basic ICT skills are important for the role too.
• The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate effective behaviour management strategies, understand the primary curriculum and have the ability to ensure outstanding achievement. Part of the role will include one after school club per week which finishes at 4:30pm and pastoral support for part of two of the pupils’ lunchtimes
  

What the school offers its staff

• Children who love learning and want to achieve
• High quality CPD opportunities in school and across our home-grown, friendly multi-academy trust
• A well-resourced, attractive and stimulating working and learning environment
• A friendly staff team where there is a strong emphasis on collaboration.

Further details about the role

1. Assessment: Follow school policies and systems to assess the needs of pupils and use detailed knowledge and specialist skills to support pupils’ learning.

2. Teaching and Learning: Deliver the school’s rich and broad curriculum following/complementing school plans and policies to pupils individually, in groups and as whole classes.

3. Relationships with Pupils: Establish productive, professional, caring and supportive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations.

4. Inclusion: Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils within the classroom.

5. Special Needs: Liaise with the SENDCo and class teachers to help develop and implement Individual Education Plans.

6. Personal Welfare Needs: Where necessary, follow school polices to support children with self-care needs including changing and toileting.

7. Responding to Individual Pupil Needs: Support pupils’ learning and well-being consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs.

8. Group Learning Skills: Encourage pupils to interact and work co-operatively with others and engage all pupils in activities using the school’s ‘aiming high together’ approaches to teaching and learning

9. Growth Mindset and Life Skills: Promote pupils’ independence and self-confidence, employing strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self-reliance and a growth mindset in learning.

10.Feedback: Provide inter-active feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement.

SUPPORT FOR THE TEACHER

1. Resources: Organise and manage appropriate on-line, paper and practical resources and learning stimuli.

2. Learning Environment: Contribute to developing a rich and purposeful child-friendly school learning environment e.g. through putting up displays

3. Adjustments to Planning: Within an agreed system of supervision, make judgements, through on-going assessment, on whether to and how to revise teaching and learning objectives. Evaluate and adjust lessons’ work plans as appropriate responding to pupils’ needs.

4. Monitoring and Responding to Pupils’ Responses: Monitor and evaluate pupil responses to learning activities through a range of assessment and monitoring strategies against pre-determined learning objectives.

5. Feedback to other Staff: Provide objective and accurate verbal and written feedback/reports, as required, on pupil achievement, progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence.

6. Record Keeping: Record progress and achievement in lessons/activities systematically and providing evidence of range and level of progress and attainment.

7. Managing Behaviour: Work within the school’s behaviour policy to promote outstanding learning and social behaviour. In addition, to anticipate and manage behaviour constructively, promote pupils’ self-control and respond to any behavioural incidents swiftly and appropriately.

8. Parents: Supporting the role of parents in pupils’ learning. Contribute to and, where appropriate, lead meetings with parents to provide constructive feedback on pupil progress/achievement etc. Support the school’s leadership team in promoting the school’s work, polices and ethos with parents. Communicate and liaise with parents in regards to their children’s welfare following school policies and procedures

9. Tests and Assessments: Administer, supervise and mark tests providing assessment information to teachers and other appropriate staff.

SUPPORT FOR THE CURRICULUM

1. Learning Activities: Deliver learning activities in and out of the classroom and at different times of the school day to pupils within agreed system of supervision, adjusting activities according to pupil responses/needs.

2. Learning Strategies: Incorporate, school-wide, trust and national learning strategies and initiatives into the delivery of teaching and learning activities. Make effective use of opportunities provided by other learning activities to support the development of pupils’ wider skills.

3. Information and Communication Technology: Use ICT effectively to support learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use.

4. Resources: Select and prepare resources necessary to lead learning activities, taking account of pupils’ interests and language and cultural backgrounds.

5. Contribute to Professional Curriculum Dialogue: Both give and implement given advice on appropriate teaching strategies. Supportively, contribute to collegiate professional conversations on the deployment and use of teaching strategies and specialist aids, resources and equipment.

SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL

1. Policies: Comply with and assist with the development of policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, child protection, health, safety and security, attendance, behaviour, confidentiality and data protection, reporting concerns to an appropriate person.

2. Equal Opportunities: Support the school’s ‘aiming high together’ ethos to celebrate what all pupils have in common and to also celebrate differences between pupils. Ensure all pupils receive a full entitlement to ,the school’s curriculum, first quality teaching, vocabulary development opportunities, cultural capital opportunities and the school’s wider personal development offer regardless of pupils’ personal characteristics or socio-economic disadvantage.

3. School’s Mission: Contribute and support the school’s overall aiming high together ethos, its work and its development priorities

4. Outside Agencies and Professionals: Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals, in liaison with the teacher, to support achievement and progress of pupils. Take the initiative, as appropriate and in liaison with school leaders, to develop appropriate multi-agency approaches to supporting pupils.

5. Deploying Personal Strengths: Recognise own personal strengths and areas of specialist expertise and use these to lead, advise and support others.

6. Out of School Hours Activities: Deliver out of school learning activities within guidelines established by the school. Contribute to the identification and execution of appropriate out of school learning activities which consolidate and, where appropriate, extend work carried out in class.

7. Reporting Child Welfare Information: Use the school’s child welfare secure reporting portal, following school policies and procedures, to record any, safeguarding, attendance, behavioural or welfare information, concerns or incidents.

8. Undertake Appraisal: Follow the school’s appraisal policy/procedures and self-evaluate own professional strengths and areas for support/further development.

9. Any other duties and responsibilities appropriate to the grade and role

Commitment to safeguarding

Loxley Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-disclosure form. Successful candidates will also be required to undergo an enhanced disclosure and barring services check. We are committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of the recruitment process. Appointments are made subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, Occupational Health assessment and satisfactory references.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to enquiries@loxley.sheffield.sch.uk

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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HLTA Person Specification 2025.docx - 65.4 KB (opens in new tab)

ToolkitJD-13h - High Level Teaching Assistant L4 - LD3.5.doc - 226 KB (opens in new tab)

About Loxley Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 206 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Loxley Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: enquiries@loxley.sheffield.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0114 2344510
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/loxley-primary-school-sheffield (opens in new tab)

Loxley Primary School is a popular village school on the northern outskirts of the city. The school is judged as Outstanding by Ofsted (January 2015). It is part of Peak Edge, a Primary Phase Academy Trust. The Governors of the school are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and dedicated practitioner for a class teacher role.

Arranging a visit to Loxley Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiries@loxley.sheffield.sch.uk.

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