Higher Level Teaching Assistants (Part-time)

Moorhill Primary School, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS11 5RN

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  2 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 June 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: Grade 7 – SCP 24 - 28 - £29,093 - £32,655 - FTE

Higher Level Teaching Assistants (Part-time) job summary

We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our vibrant and supportive team.

This role will involve providing PPA (Planning, Preparation and Assessment) cover across Years 1 to 6, delivering high-quality teaching across a range of subjects and age groups under teacher direction, and opportunities to lead and inspire in your area of specialism subject for example Physical Education or Art.

Are you an enthusiastic and experienced Higher Level Teaching Assistant looking to make a meaningful impact in a supportive and welcoming school community? We are seeking two committed HLTA’s to join our dedicated team and contribute to the continued success of our pupils.

As a part-time HLTA, you will:

• A qualified HLTA or an experienced TA with HLTA status (or working towards it)
• A strong interest or qualification in a specialist subject, with experience supporting or delivering sessions
• Confidence in leading small groups and covering classes in the teacher's absence
• A team player with excellent communication skills and a proactive, flexible approach
• A genuine passion for supporting children’s learning, development, and wellbeing

Moorhill Primary School has a welcoming and highly dedicated team, committed to working in partnership with parents and the school community. We want children to enjoy and excel in their learning and achieve their potential in all areas of school life. Academic achievement is important, as is achievement in music, sport and the arts.

Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

We believe that everyone has the potential to be extraordinary! 

To this end, our growing number of Primary schools within the trust tirelessly pursue excellence through research-based collaboration and innovation.  Our developing, Trust-wide, 3D Primary curriculum and pioneering Digital Strategy is designed to create inspirational, energetic and immersive learning experiences.  These enable every child to flourish within a caring, stimulating and purposeful atmosphere; fully prepared for their next stage of life and learning.

We know that at primary school, the quality of teaching affects both children’s social behaviour and intellectual development. This age and stage of learning has a more powerful impact on children’s academic progress than any other educational sector.  Home too has a vital part to play! - Recognised through extensive research, it is the importance of early experiences and the powerful combination of home, pre-school and primary school partnerships that set the foundations enabling our amazing children and pupils to succeed.

Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or socioeconomic status. In doing this, we can help ensure all children are able to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff)/Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know  our people  are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the  employment experience  at  Shaw Education Trust  is  a  rewarding  one.

Actual Salary: £11,137 - £12,500 (Pay Award Pending) 
Working Hours: 16.25 hours per week – 38 weeks plus 5 Inset days – total working weeks 39 - (Ideally Tuesday, Wednesday and half a day on a Thursday)

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

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About Moorhill Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 319 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Moorhill Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/moorhill-primary-school-cannock

Moorhill Primary School provides quality education to children aged 4 to 11 in the Staffordshire area.

Moorhill have a highly dedicated team, committed to working in partnership with parents and the school communnity. They want children to enjoy and excel in their learning and achieve their potential in all areas of school life. Academic achievement is important, as is achievement in music, sport and the arts.

The Moorhill team believe that personal development is equally important and aim to develop high levels of emotional intelligence, developing our own well-being and empathising with and understanding others. Throughout the school, Moorhill model the essential values of self-belief, teamwork, ambition and aspiration, respect and effort and endeavour to embed these into learning experiences and carry them with pupils beyond school life.

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