HLTA

Glenfield Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 8DL

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  20 August 2026

• Closing date

  22 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  7 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,971.00 - £25,297.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 4 Point 8-14 Term time only.

HLTA job summary

About Us:

Join Glenfield Primary School

Are you a dynamic and exceptional educator looking to make a significant impact on learning and well-being of pupils? Glenfield Primary School invites applications for the position of HLTA at this friendly, inclusive and successful school.

At Glenfield Primary School, our motto is embodied in our commitment to "Learn Together, Achieve Together, Be the Best That We Can Be." We are seeking an enthusiastic individual who resonates with our ethos of collaborative learning, achievement, and continuous improvement. Our goal is to inspire all our pupils and our staff to strive for excellence in all facets of learning and personal growth.

About Flying High:

Flying High Partnership is a thriving multi-academy trust of 38 primary schools across Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottingham City, and Nottinghamshire. We are driven by a shared vision to be unique, exceptional, and sustainable. Founded in 2012, we believe in the power of meaningful collaboration to help schools reach their full potential while supporting others along the way.

Our Partnership celebrates individuality, champions continuous improvement, and ensures every child thrives. With a strong focus on school-led professional development and leadership, we’re committed to growing exceptional teachers and inspirational leaders.

Together, we make every day count.

About the Role

We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic, and committed Teaching Assistant to join our team. This role will involve supporting children across the classroom, working closely with the class teacher and wider school staff to deliver high-quality learning experiences and ensure all children are fully supported.

Whether you are supporting the whole class, working with small groups, or delivering 1:1 support for children with additional needs, your role will be crucial in helping every child feel safe, happy, and able to achieve their potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide cover for teaching staff, including leading class teaching (under supervision), PPA cover, short-term cover for the absence of other staff
• Plan, prepare, and deliver learning activities (including whole-class teaching) under an agreed system of supervision.
• Assess and report on pupil progress across a range of curriculum areas, using various monitoring and evaluation methods.
• Build positive relationships with pupils to support their learning, wellbeing, and personal development.
• Work collaboratively with class teachers, support staff, and families to create a nurturing and inclusive environment.
• Maintain confidentiality, uphold safeguarding procedures, and model the school’s values in all interactions.

We Are Looking For

• A highly skilled and confident practitioner, ideally HLTA-qualified or working towards HLTA status.
• Someone with experience delivering whole-class teaching under supervision, including for PPA and short-term cover.
• A professional who can plan, assess, and provide feedback to support pupil progress across the curriculum.
• A positive role model with the ability to lead, mentor, and support other support staff.
• A strong communicator who collaborates effectively with teaching teams, parents, and external professionals.
• A committed, resilient individual who values inclusion, upholds safeguarding duties, and contributes to the wider school life.

We Can Offer You:

• A commitment to people across our partnership, underpinned by our people principles: adaptability, wellness, recognising achievement, employee voice and engagement, professional development and growth, inclusivity, and collaboration.
• Access to extensive, high-quality CPL at every stage of your career, including opportunities to grow as a leader.
• The opportunity to progress across the partnership, realising your career ambitions.
• Access to an employee assistance programme that offers specialist support, including counselling, financial support, and legal advice.
• A fantastic working environment, with a team that works together for the benefit of the children in our schools.
• The opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of children every day

Application Details

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or find out more, please contact the school office.

Early application is advised, as we may interview and appoint before the closing date.

Flying High Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory 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.

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 Glenfield Primary School

• School type: Academies, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 430 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Glenfield Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/glenfield-primary-school-leicester

At Glenfield Primary School, we have enthusiastic children, dedicated staff, a caring environment and a wonderful building. We work in partnership with parents, trustees, governors and the community to provide a well-planned, broad and ambitious curriculum, adapted to the wide-ranging needs of our pupils. We have high expectations of all our pupils and are dedicated to ensuring that all are supported to achieve the best possible standards.
As our mission statement states,
“Learn together, achieve together, be the best that we can be.”
The school also has a specialist Speech and Language Provision which takes children from across Leicestershire who have speech, language and communication needs.
We are proud to be a caring school where the well-being and development of every individual is of paramount importance. Throughout different areas of the curriculum, children are given the opportunity to develop academically, socially, emotionally and creatively, so that they are able to thrive as they mature and grow. Overall, children feel safe and secure. We have a strong focus on values and building children’s character skills and we aim to embed these into all aspects of teaching and learning.

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