HLTA

Wild Bank Community School, Stalybridge, Cheshire, SK15 2PG

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual salary £15,899 - £17,271

HLTA job summary

Wild Bank Primary School – FTC HLTA 22hrs 15min

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant at Wild Bank Primary School, Demesne Drive, Stalybridge, SK15 2PG.

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

Wild Bank is a one form entry school with 31 staff and 146 pupils aged between 3 and 11. Wild Bank’s school motto is ‘Working together we can achieve our best’.

To start Monday 1st September 2025 until 31st August 2026

Higher-Level Teaching Assistant full time Salary £30,060-£32,654

This is a fixed-term contract, part-time 22 hours and 15 minutes per week, Term Time Only with an actual salary £15,899-£17,271, (TMBC Grade F Point 17-22)

Working schedule - Tuesday 08.15-16.00, Wednesday 08.15-16.30 and Thursday 08.15-16.00.

We are a small one-form entry school with delightful children and dedicated and friendly staff. We require a HLTA for 3 days per week to cover PPA in all classes throughout school (From Early Years to Y6) each afternoon. We will also require the suitable candidate to be flexible to cover in various classes at other times and to provide smaller group support for classes when needed. The suitable candidate will also take a 30 min dinnertime session each day with a particular focus.

Experience of working across a variety of age-ranges is desirable.

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

• Applications close at 09:00 on Friday 20th June 2025 although the Trust reserve the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process.
• Interviews will take place on Tuesday 24th June 2025
• Visits to the school are encouraged and warmly welcomed, please contact the school on 0161-3037404 or to arrange an appointment.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Wild Bank Community School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 183 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wild-bank-community-school

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