Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Workington Academy, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 4EB

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  4 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,021.00 - £23,406.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 8 A/B (£16.62 to £16.90 per hour)

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

• Hours of work: 30.25 hrs per week
• Weeks worked: 40 weeks (38 term weeks + 2 non-term weeks (inc Inset))
• Salary pro rata - min weeks paid 45.797 weeks per annum
• Location: Workington Academy

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our dedicated team. The successful candidate will support teaching and learning across the school and provide targeted intervention to help students achieve their full potential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver lessons and supervise classes when required.
• Support students with their learning, including small group and one-to-one interventions.
• Assist in planning and preparing resources to enhance learning.
• Work collaboratively with teachers and other staff to raise achievement.

Requirements:

• HLTA status or equivalent qualification.
• Experience working in a secondary school setting.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

If you have the qualities we require, along with the passion and aspirations to contribute to the success of the School and the MAT, we urge you to hit the "Apply" button.

Cumbria Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Enhanced DBS disclosure and Barred List checks are required for this post. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, online searches are carried out on successful candidates.

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 Workington Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1266 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Workington Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/workington-academy

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