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Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Woodside Primary School, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 6NF

This job expired on 15 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  28th August 2025

• Closing date

  15 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £37,068.00 - £38,058.00 Annually (FTE) Pro-Rata of £34,362. 00 FTE - £35,279.00 FTE

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

Term-Time Only (plus inset days)

Contract: Fixed-Term

Duration: 12 Months

Start Date: 28th August 2025

End Date: 31st August 2026

HLTA - Salary Range: Grade 7, Spine Point 23- 25 - £37,068.00 FTE - £38,058.00 FTE of pro-rata -£34,361.71 - £35,279.44

Hours of Work: Monday - Friday - 37.5 Hours Per Week (half an hour break)

Inspire Partnership Academy Trust, is a family of schools across Croydon, Medway and Greenwich who aim to offer a life changing education to children. Our schools work in collaboration to transform the lives of the children and communities we serve.

Our core values of Collaboration, Excellence, Friendship, Resilience, Respect and Responsibility, define the way we care for, enrich and teach every child.

What sets us apart from others is the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of educational thinking and practice, supported by excellent training and development and opportunities to take part in ground breaking research projects and collaborative work with talented and innovative colleagues, both at a local and national level.

Woodside Primary School is rapidly improving and working to provide an exceptional learning experience for our wonderful children. Our vision is to ensure children receive the very best education. We aim to make a life-changing difference within our diverse community of Croydon.

We are seeking to appoint a committed, resilient, passionate and ambitious Higher Level Teaching Assistant/ Cover Supervisor to join our school and partnership to inspire a generation of children. The successful candidate will be teaching classes across the school, delivering lessons as prepared by class teachers.

Our benefits

• Ongoing professional development
  Commitment to staff wellbeing (members of the staff wellbeing charter)
• Generous Annual Leave
• Annual Incremental Pay Increases
• Enhanced Family Friendly Pay (maternity, paternity/enhanced sickness pay)
• Teacher’s Pension Scheme
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Extensive Training and Induction program

All aspects of the application form must be fully completed to be considered for shortlisting, furthermore, please ensure that the Personal Statement in your application form addresses how you meet the duties outlined in the Person Specification. Please complete the Equal Opportunities form that is attached to this advert.

If you share in our belief that success is gained by developing a growth mindset; one which values effort and believes anything is possible, then we want to hear from you!

Further details about this vacancy and the job description can be found below.

For enquiries or an application pack please contact Janine Fernandes on 07706 829 391 or by email croydonhubrecruitment@inspirepartnership.co.uk

We reserve the right to interview and appoint at any stage during the recruitment process. Early applications are advised, as interviews will be ongoing.

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged – we would very much like to meet you and answer any questions you may have.

Further information about our Trust is available at: https://www.inspirepartnership.co.uk

To arrange a visit please contact:

Janine Fernandes – Email: croydonhubrecruitment@inspirepartnership.co.uk

Please note we will only accept applications from candidates who have documentary evidence that they have the right to work in the UK.

Woodside Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and external agencies to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, Medical Clearance and satisfactory Employment References.

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.

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About Woodside Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 472 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodside Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodside-primary-school-croydon

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