Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford, OX4 4SF

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  17 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,559.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 8

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

Rose Hill Primary School are seeking to appoint a Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our team of support staff within our vibrant, diverse city school.

We are looking for a candidate with an excellent track record of planning and delivering learning opportunities to pupils with a range of needs and abilities, through Early Years and Key Stages One and Two.

The successful candidate will work across our school and be able to adapt to all classes. They will also take on key admin tasks within the school, such as arranging cover and leading other support staff.

The daily hours of this role will be 8:15am until 3:15pm.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Rhiannon Wilkie, Headteacher, about the role, prior to application, then please email headteacher@rosehillprimary.org or phone 01865 777937.

The River Learning Trust and Rose Hill Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

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.

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.

About Rose Hill Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 293 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Rose Hill Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/rose-hill-primary-school-ox4-4sf

Rose Hill is an enjoyable and interesting place to work with a brilliant cultural mix and a broad, child-focused curriculum.

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