HLTA

Manor School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 6PA

3 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Asap

• Closing date

  18 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  4 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,992.00 - £27,711.00 Annually (FTE)

HLTA job summary

We are continually developing our SEND provision and are delighted to have the opportunity to increase our support around Literacy & Emotional Literacy (ELSA).These are new and exciting opportunity which will support the students to achieve their potential with various interventions and support offered by successful candidates. The aim of the roles will be to equip the students with knowledge, strategies, confidence and independence to be successful in their learning in school.

You will be a HLTA in either Literacy or ELSA, running interventions, creating learning resources, developing strategies, supporting with students learning and helping them be more successful in school. The students who will be working with will have a variety of special educational needs including social, emotional and mental health needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• To lead the provision in close liaison with the SENDCo

• To act as a mentor for the students, creating positive relationships in order to maximise their well-being and progress

• To create and over-see bespoke resources & strategies for the students

• To support the students with their curriculum learning by running interventions - this may include pre and post teaching as well as more specific intervention

• To foster links with the wider school and cement strong relationships with the students & others within school.

You will need:

• HLTA qualification or significant experience of working within this role

• Experience of working with a range of students with SEND

• Experience of the National Curriculum for Key Stage Three and Four

• Resilience

• Ability and confidence to act with autonomy

• Empathetic with the ability to make strong, positive relationships

• Patience

• Commitment and passion to support the students to achieve their best.

• Flexible

• Confident communicator

• Good IT skills (support will be offered where needed)

Benefits

• Access to retail discounts and technology schemes

• Access to Cycle to Work

• 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter.

• Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional

• An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged.

• Discounted gym membership

• Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours - while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work

• Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes.

Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process.

Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks.

We look forward to your response.

The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.

*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated*

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 Manor School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 967 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Manor School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/manor-school-wellingborough

Our mission is ‘Success for All’ - within our school and Trust communities, fulfilled through our determination for raising aspirations and developing character within a positive environment. We are passionate about inspiring our students to be confident, ambitious, and successful individuals. We teach and promote our school values of Resilience, Empathy, Aspiration, Curiosity and Humanity. From these, students are able display the virtues of kindness, gratitude, self-discipline, and personal responsibility. We have the highest expectations of our students and unashamedly uphold a warm professional culture. Within our community, students and staff are known, valued, developed, and supported to be successful and happy. This ensures our students are polite, kind to each other and work hard.

We are blessed to spend our days with wonderful children. But don’t just take our word for it…come and see for yourself! We encourage you to visit Manor School.

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