HLTA
Sholing Junior School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 8PT8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as all safer recruitment checks are complete
Closing date
27 February 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
19 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week Monday - Friday 39 weeks per year 8:25am - 3:40pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 7 between £23873 - £27074
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Accountabilities
- work with whole classes to teach pre-planned lessons across the school.
- demonstrate a good understanding of safeguarding practices and confidentiality, following all school policies accordingly.
- establish supportive, caring and secure relationships with the child/ children, promoting respect, self-esteem and a positive, inclusive whole school ethos.
- contribute to evaluation, review and planning discussions with the teacher, SENCO and other members of the support team.
- offer a fair and consistent approach to managing behaviour and individual needs in line with school policies and procedures.
- maintain high expectations of the children.
- help, support and motivate the children, clarifying instructions, encouraging independent learning and behaviour and enabling learning targets and outcomes to be achieved.
- communicate regularly with parents and with wider agencies.
- You will assess the needs of pupils and use your specialist skills to support individuals or groups across the curriculum, including delivering interventions and developing Behaviour Support Plans.
- Be able to establish supportive, caring and secure relationships with children, promoting respect, self-esteem and a positive school ethos.
- Provide class teaching cover, both planned and unplanned, using lesson plans prepared by the class teacher, including setting up classrooms, preparing resources, and maintaining a tidy and organised learning environment.
- To understand and respond to the academic, physical and emotional needs of our pupils, assisting teachers and/or the SENCo in planning and delivering programmes of work, including for those with specific learning needs.
- To select and prepare resources, supporting children in using them, and motivating pupils to become independent learners who achieve their targets.
- To monitor and record progress, mark work, and provide feedback to teachers, contributing to parent reports where necessary.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- Excellent CPD opportunities and Training and Development Programmes
- Eligibility to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement for staff working 52 weeks per year which increases with length of service
- Free eye tests up to the value of £25 for users of VDU equipment and contribution up to the value of £60 towards the purchase of glasses specifically for the use of display screen equipment (where all conditions are met)
- Opportunity to become a school workplace Health and Wellbeing representative, meeting with other schools on a termly basis and feeding into the Health and Wellbeing strategy
- Access to the Trust Health and Wellbeing pages
- Access to a staff benefits portal through Vivup
Free confidential telephone and face to face counselling for staff and family members
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFEGUARDING:
All schools with the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Sholing Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 346 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sholing Junior School website
- Email address
- info@sholing-jun.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02380 447448
Sholing Junior School is on the East Side of Southampton, and we have 360 children on roll, 3 form entry. The two story building has undergone extensive renovations over the years, from its original layout in 1976 to our new layout from 2016 when we built 4 extra classrooms to accommodate growing numbers due to the school’s popularity. We benefit from large open playgrounds, a separate hall and dining hall, dedicated music room, numerous intervention rooms, and use of the college field during the summer. We have on-site parking for staff.
Arranging a visit to Sholing Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email info@sholing-jun.co.uk.
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