Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Primary Nurture Provision Lead

St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community), Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 7BD

22 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  2 October 2026 at 3pm

• Date listed

  10 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £19,622.00 Annually (Actual)

Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Primary Nurture Provision Lead job summary

As a Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA), you will work closely with the SENCO and teaching staff to provide high-quality learning opportunities that enable pupils to achieve their full potential. Using your advanced knowledge, skills and experience, you will plan, deliver, monitor and assess learning, helping to raise standards and remove barriers to success.

This is a new provision for our school and requires a primary specialist.

You will play a key role in supporting pupils with a range of needs, fostering independence, confidence and resilience both in and beyond the classroom. Through a nurturing, relationship-based approach, you will support the social, emotional and mental health needs of individuals and small groups, ensuring every child feels valued, supported and ready to learn.

This rewarding role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact on pupils' academic progress, personal development and wellbeing while working as part of a dedicated and inclusive team.

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 St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community)

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 16
• Education phase: All through school
• Size: 703 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community) website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-martins-school-3-16-learning-community-oswestry

As a 3-16 through school at the heart of the community of St Martins, we are able to deliver child centred, individually tailored education because of our small size and unique position in the community.

The family ethos of the school surrounds all who work and study here creating a safe, supportive and nurturing environment. We value academic progress and social development equally .

Our children are individuals, respected for their differences and celebrated for their strengths. Within this caring family environment our children feel confident to push themselves to achieve the best they can, they enjoy an exciting and sometimes daring curriculum which challenges and stretches them. We love our school and we hope when you visit you will too

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