Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Nunnery Wood High School, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 2LT3 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 April 2025
Closing date
26 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Based on 34 hours per week, term time only plus 5 Inset Days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,067 - £32,655
Pay scale
- Scale 6, pt 19 to 22
Hourly rate
- £16.10 to £16.93. Actual Starting Salary £25075.30 – 26357.02
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications and Training:
- HLTA status or relevant experience in the planning and delivery of Speech and Language intervention.
- Training in speech and language support strategies.
- GCSE Grade C/Grade 4 and above in English and Maths.
Experience:
- Experience working in a school setting, ideally in a secondary school but primary school experience will also be considered.
- Experience delivering speech and language interventions.
- Experience working closely with students who have a wide variety of SEND.
Skills and Knowledge:
- Strong understanding of speech and language development in children.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both in writing and verbally.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently.
- Knowledge of safeguarding practices and procedures.
- Ability to plan and deliver a sequence of successful intervention lessons using data from professional reports or internal data
- Ability to use a variety of Microsoft Office programmes
- An understanding of other SEND needs that co-occur with speech and language needs.
Personal Qualities:
- High expectations for all students and a commitment to their success.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage time effectively.
- Ability to change and adapt according to students’ presenting needs
- Commitment to upholding the school’s values and ethos.
- Commitment to equality and diversity.
What the school offers its staff
Nunnery Wood High School is oversubscribed and enjoys a strong reputation in the region. Staff and students enjoy school life and staff voice extremely high levels of satisfaction with working conditions and leadership of the school.
Staff enjoy many benefits including a slightly lighter timetable than is common, free membership of a health and welfare scheme (Westfield Health) and a school gym.
Recent Ofsted inspections describe both results and student behaviour as significant strengths. Our intake is broad, from the academically gifted to students requiring nurturing in numeracy and literacy. We are ambitious for them all and share a deep conviction that they should all reach their potential with us.
Commitment to safeguarding
Nunnery Wood High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students.
All staff at Nunnery Wood High School have a safeguarding responsibility.
The successful applicants will be required to undertake safer recruitment vetting checks, including an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to personnel@nunnerywood.worcs.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Nunnery Wood High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1494 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Nunnery Wood High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- personnel@nunnerywood.worcs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01905363636
Welcome to Nunnery Wood High School.
Nunnery Wood High School is an academy in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. It is a co-educational school and a Science College with about 1500 students on roll aged from 11 to 16. In 1983 following a restructuring of schools in Worcestershire the Nunnery Wood Secondary School was renamed Nunnery Wood High School.
The school campus is located on the edge of Worcester, surrounded by some 15 acres (61,000 m2) of gardens and playing fields which it shares with the adjacent Sixth Form College. The school benefits from refurbished or purpose built extensions including facilities for Science, English, Music, Art & Design, Languages and ICT. The school’s sports centre has an all-weather outdoor pitch and athletics track.
Arranging a visit to Nunnery Wood High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@nunnerywood.worcs.sch.uk.
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