HLTA
Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5PD13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 8am
Date listed
23 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 26 hours per week, working Tuesday to Friday 08:30 - 15:30 with 30 minute unpaid break, term time only
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,697
Actual salary
- from £17,963 (2024 values)
Pay scale
- PS6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Unleash Your Potential as a HLTA at Shawley Community Primary!
What We're Looking For :
- Meet HLTA standards or possess an equivalent qualification or experience.
- A minimum of two years’ experience of working with children in an education setting.
- A strong understanding of behaviour management strategies and Safeguarding Procedures.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for working with young pupils and a wide range of professional contacts.
- Sound IT skills to support learning and maintain electronic information systems.
- Ability to organise classroom activities and implement strategies for teaching and learning.
- The ability and willingness to work constructively as part of a team.
- A commitment to helping young pupils achieve through education and learning.
- Employees working in this role must be able to speak fluent English to ensure effective performance and safeguarding responsibilities.
What the school offers its staff
Join Our Team! Shawley Community Primary, part of LEO Academy Trust, is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and aims to create a supportive, inclusive working environment. We believe in a collaborative team approach, where you will contribute as an effective and collaborative member of the School team and participate in the school development plan.
If you are ready to make a significant impact on children's lives and contribute to the vibrant ethos of our school, we want to hear from you!
We can offer you a range of benefits, which can be found on our website, including discounted wraparound care and nursery fees.
Further details about the role
Please be aware:
- This role can only be worked in the UK from the location provided and not from overseas.
- For this role the Trust would not consider sponsoring a Certificate of Sponsorship/visa. Please note we are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
- Feedback will only be provided upon request if you attend an interview.
- In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidelines, the Trust will use internet searches, including social media searches to perform pre- employment checks on candidates in the course of recruitment. The Trust will act in accordance with its data protection and equal opportunities obligations.
- Employees working in any role that requires them to communicate with pupils, parents, guardians, staff and / or members of the community, must be able to speak fluent English to enable the effective performance of the role and to ensure that they are able to abide by their safeguarding responsibilities.
- LEO Academy Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a supportive and inclusive working environment in which all individuals are able to make best use of their skills. Applications are invited from all members of the community. We do not discriminate against staff on the basis of age; race; sex; disability; sexual orientation; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; religion, faith or belief (Equality Act 2010 protected characteristics). The principles of non-discrimination and equality of opportunity also apply to the way in which staff and Trust treat visitors, volunteers, contractors and former staff members.
Reasonable adjustments
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to support you in applying for this role, or atany stage of the recruitment process, please
- contact the Recruitment team via recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
Commitment to safeguarding
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. All employees of the Trust are deemed to be in regulated activity with children and as such, all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and for this role, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed amongst other checks as appropriate.
All shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a declaration regarding offences and have references requested (unless agreed otherwise), prior to the interview.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 247 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery website
- Email address
- recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk
At LEO Academy Trust, we are proud to serve over 3800 pupils from across the London Borough of Sutton and Surrey. Our Trust was formed in 2015. Since then, we have developed a self-improving network of great learning communities formed from seven primary schools, supported by both our Inclusion & Wellbeing Hub and our Opportunity Hub. We are proud to provide endless opportunities for our pupils, staff and the local communities we are part of. With over 500 staff, our schools are empowered to support each other to improve both outcomes for our pupils, and to drive performance across the wider school system. We are delighted that our schools remain long standing members of the Challenge Partners Network of Excellence. Our commitment to Professional Development is ongoing; staff, governors and Trustees access training through our LEO CDP website, Judicium’s online learning portal and a wide ranging programme of courses delivered in our LEO Training Room and online via GoogleMeet. Learning, Excellence and Opportunity are at the heart of our Trust, embedded through our shared mission, values and aims.
Arranging a visit to Shawley Community Primary Academy & Nursery
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk.
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