HLTA
Morpeth All Saints Church of England First School, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 3RD14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.43 hours per week, Monday to Friday (TTO + 5 days)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,711
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Purpose:
- To work under an agreed system of supervision and take the lead role within the school to address the needs of pupils who need particular help to overcome barriers to learning.
Duties and key result areas:
Support for Pupils
- Assess the needs of pupils and use detailed knowledge and specialist skills to support pupils learning.
- Develop and implement IEPs.
- Establish productive relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to the needs of each individual child, acting as a role model and setting high expectations.
- To actively promote inclusive practice within the classroom setting to ensure acceptance of all children.
- Encourage children to play and interact with one another.
- Support pupils consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs.
- To have challenging expectations that encourages children to act independently and build self esteem.
- Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement.
Support for the Teacher
- Organise and manage appropriate learning environments and resources for learning.
- Within an agreed system of supervision, plan challenging teaching and learning objectives and evaluate and adjust learning plans as appropriate.
- Monitor and evaluate pupils’ responses to learning activities through observation and planned recording of achievement against agreed, predetermined, learning objectives.
- Provide the teacher with accurate and objective feed back on pupil progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of supporting evidence.
- Undertake the maintenance of pupils’ records and accurately record achievement.
- Support the teacher in the management of pupil behaviour.
- Establish constructive relationships with parents and carers and participate in feedback sessions as directed.
- Administer and mark tests and invigilate exams.
- Undertake the marking of pupils’ work.
- Produce lesson plans, work sheets etc.
- Advance pupils learning in a range of classroom settings including working with individuals, small groups and whole classes when the assigned teacher is not present.
Support for the Curriculum
- Deliver learning activities to pupils within and agreed framework of supervision, adjusting activities to meet pupil needs.
- Deliver local and national learning strategies and make effective use of opportunities provided by other learning activities to support the development of relevant skills
- Support use of ICT in learning and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use.
- Help pupils access learning activities through specialist support.
- Advise on appropriate deployment and use of specialist equipment or resources.
Support for the School
- Comply with all school policies and contribute to the development of policy relating to:
- Health and Safety
- Equal Opportunities
- Child Protection
- Confidentiality and data protection.
- Work in such as to promote the ethos and vision of the school.
- Participate in training and development, and activities that contribute to the management of performance.
- Assist with the management of pupils outside the classroom e.g. lunch times and outside the school e.g. school trips as directed by the class teacher and member of the school’s management.
- Attend and participate in regular meetings
- Take the initiative, as appropriate, in developing multi agency contacts to support the learning and development of children.
Line Management Responsibilities
- Manage other teaching assistants
- Liaise between managers or teaching staff and teaching assistants.
- Hold regular meetings with managed staff.
- Undertake the following activities:
- Recruitment of staff
- Induction of staff
- Appraisal of staff
- Staff training
- Mentoring and coaching of staff
- To undertake other duties and responsibilities as required commensurate with the grade of the post.
The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative and may vary over time. Post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and extent of the post and the grade has been established on this basis.
Morpeth All Saints CofE First School expects all staff to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. In order to do this, staff must attend all offered child protection and safeguarding training without exception and read all relevant policies.
The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative and may vary over time. Post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and extent of the post and the grade has been established on this basis.
What the school offers its staff
We recognise the mutual benefits to our Learning Trust through reciprocal staff development opportunities, training events, and the generation of new ways of working through system leadership.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to s.mungall@sfs.cheviotlt.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Morpeth All Saints Church of England First School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 9
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 229 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- s.mungall@sfs.cheviotlt.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01670 512803
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