Higher Level Teaching Assistant
The Propeller Academy Trust, Wantage, OX12 9ETDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
ASAP (subject to the completion of all necessary checks)
Closing date
4 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 25840.96 - 27976.95
Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary
Woodeaton Manor is a Special School catering for pupils with Social Emotional and Mental Health Needs. We are a small school with 80 pupils, located in a Georgian Manor House, 5 miles outside of Oxford City in beautiful Oxfordshire countryside
HLTA
Job overview
The successful candidate will have
· Experience of classroom practice, as a teacher or experienced TA
· Pastoral experience / safeguarding experience
· SEN / SEMH experience
· Excellent communication skills
· Confident, personable, and determined in nature
· Effective behaviour management skills
· De-escalation strategies and techniques
· Some experience of safeguarding protocols
· Personal initiative
· A strong belief in providing the very best for young people who need it most
We can offer:
· A friendly work environment and a supportive leadership team.
· A team dedicated to making a difference to pupils who need it most.
· Employee Assistant Programme.
· Continuous CPD opportunities.
This is an outstanding opportunity for someone who wants to join a high performing school and gain significant experience to further enhance their career.
Main purpose
· To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision and assisting the teaching staff in the
· implementation of National Curriculum/Developmental Curriculum and School Curriculum. This may involve planning, preparing, and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or short term for whole classes and monitoring pupils and assessing, recording, and reporting on pupils’ achievements, progress, and development.
· Be responsible for the management and development of a specialist area within the school and/or management of other teaching assistants including allocation and monitoring of work, appraisal, and training.
· Be responsible for communication liaising between managers/teaching staff and teaching assistants as well as organising and chairing TA meetings at least termly and actioning any points raised.
· Undertake if required, recruitment/induction/appraisal/training/mentoring for other teaching assistants and ensure that new TAs have completed a full induction process following the school policy and are well versed with Health and Safety issues throughout the school.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Propeller Academy Trust and its member schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people according to child protection and safeguarding guidelines. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Posts classed as having a high degree of contact with children or vulnerable adults are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All post holders are subject to the necessary pre-employment check, including a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, including a Child/Adult’s Barred List check (where applicable to the role in question).
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 The Propeller Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
SEN
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