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  • Start date details

    TBC

  • Closing date

    4 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    7 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 30 Hour per week /Term Time 39 Weeks / Permanent

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

NJC06 £25,183 FTE per annum, £17,935 pro rata per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we are looking for

The Higher-Level Teaching Assistant will be a member of a multi-disciplinary team, under the leadership and supervision of the teacher.

  • Have Higher Level Teaching Assistant Status or equivalent qualification or experience
  • Excellent numeracy and literacy skills or qualifications equivalent to NVQ level 2 in English and maths
  • Experience of working with relevant age groups within a learning environment.
  • Experience of working with children with additional needs.
  • Skills and Knowledge Ability to organise, lead and motivate.
  • An ability to understand the principles of child development and learning processes and in particular barriers to learning

What the school offers its staff

About our Academy

King Edward Vi Academy has a strong sense of purpose and are fervently committed to the achievement of every individual. We aim to provide a high-quality education in a safe, happy, caring and focused environment. We encourage all students to embody our values of ambition and aspiration, courage and resilience and honesty and respect. We are intent on developing a love of learning amongst our students, offering them a broad and balanced curriculum, enhanced by a range of enrichment activities designed to support their personal growth. We encourage all students to take responsibility for their own learning.

We are ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We are very proud of our community and believe we offer something exciting for those who join us. We have the privilege of working in a stimulating and dynamic school that, combined with our co-educational ethos and smaller size, engenders a culture that genuinely cherishes individuality, aims to instil creativity and independence and celebrates open-minded thinking. Underpinned by our values, we are student focused and we believe that there are no limits for outstanding learning and outstanding achievement. We have high expectations of our students and staff, high aspirations for them and demonstrate complete belief in them all. Low level disruption is rare at KEVI and students are polite and respectful.

The academy is based in Spilsby, an historic market town nestling between the beautiful Lincolnshire coastline and the rolling Lincolnshire Wolds. It is also within driving distance of several Market towns and the larger towns of Boston, Grimsby and the city of Lincoln. The academy is currently attracting students from a wide catchment area from Skegness, the surrounding area and as far as Boston, Alford and Louth.

Salary & Benefits

  • NJC06 £25,183 FTE per annum, £17,935 pro rata per annum
  • Regional networks of Trust colleagues and access to key leaders in Education
  • Commitment to employee Health and Well-being including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
  • Awards and Recognition Scheme
  • Flexible working patterns
  • Benefits Platform
    • holiday discounts
    • cinema tickets
    • restaurant booking discounts
    • Cycle to Work Scheme

Further details about the role

About the role

  • Working under the direction and within an agreed system of supervision from a qualified teacher/ SENCO.
  • To complement the teachers’ delivery of the national curriculum and contribute to the development of other support staff, pupils and school policies and strategies.
  • To undertake specified timetabled teaching duties as agreed with the Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team.
  • To work collaboratively with teaching staff and assist teachers in the whole planning cycle and the management/preparation of resources. Also, to supervise whole classes occasionally during the short-term absence of teachers including PPA.
  • To provide support for pupils, the teacher and the school in order to raise standards of achievement for all pupils (e.g. SEN, EAL, GT, all underachieving groups), by utilising advanced levels of knowledge and skills when assisting with planning, monitoring, assessing and managing classes, and to encourage pupils to become independent learners, to provide support for their welfare, and to support the inclusion of pupils in all aspects of school life.

30 Hour per week /Term Time 39 Weeks / Permanent

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 King Edward VI Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
395 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01059320146

King Edward VI Academy is a mixed, mainstream, secondary school in Spilsby, Lincolnshire. It caters to students aged 11 to 18 with a PAN of 520 students. Places are in high demand at our popular Academy leading to us being consistently well oversubscribed in every year group.

King Edward VI Academy opened in September 2012 and is sponsored by the David Ross Education Trust. It started as two separate schools, the King Edward VI Grammar School, which opened in 1550, and Sir John Franklin Secondary Modern School, which opened in 1954. The schools were combined in 1991 and began as a Humanities College and is a co-educational bi-lateral secondary school with a sixth form.

Arranging a visit to King Edward VI Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@dret.co.uk.

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