HLTA

Priory Academy, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 4JA

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Sept 25

• Closing date

  16 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,921.00 Annually (Actual) H4 - pro rata

HLTA job summary

Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Priory Academy

Grade: H4 (permanent)

Actual Salary: From £18,921

Hours: 32.5 hours per week, term-time + 5 days INSET

Start date: September 2025

Priory Academy are looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and hard-working Higher-Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to support students with educational needs and lead lessons when required. This is a full-time position working term-time + 5 days’ INSET

You should have:

• A Degree in a relevant subject or HLTA qualification
• Experience of supporting children with special needs and safeguarding procedures
• Experience with pupil improvement from a previous position
• The ability to deliver (and plan) some of the curriculum with support from class teachers and the SENDCo
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to inspire and motivate pupils to make progress in their learning and achieve their potential.

Diversity: The Scholars’ Education Trust is fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We want to attract and retain the very best staff in all areas of the trust, ensuring our staff body reflects the diversity of our students and local community.

Further details and an application form are available from the Trust website www.scholarseducationtrust.co.uk, your form should be returned to HR@scholarseducationtrust.co.uk. CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date: Monday 16th June 2025, at 9.00am

We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.

Scholars’ Education Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Declaration of criminal offences

The trust is required to give you the opportunity to voluntarily declare convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings that are not ‘protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). You will be provided with a criminal self-declaration form by the school if you are shortlisted for the post. All posts in schools are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If you are appointed you will be required to have an up to date Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate. The existence of a criminal background does not automatically mean that you cannot be appointed but it may do so.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Priory Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 9 to 16
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 791 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 9 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Priory Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/priory-academy

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