HLTA - WISERR Curriculum

Woodlands Secondary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3SP

3 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2025

• Closing date

  27 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  2 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,213.00 - £24,650.00 Annually (Actual)

HLTA - WISERR Curriculum job summary

We are seeking to employ suitably experienced staff to work as HLTAs with our students who follow the WISERR Curriculum. The role will involve covering the Department Leader and providing PPA cover for teachers.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be child focused and committed to forming and maintaining positive relationships with students in the Provisions. They will have endless patience.
• Be able to communicate effectively with others - students, colleagues, professionals and families; adjusting their communication style to suit the person and the situation.
• Be able to work in a team and to lead a team, including delegating the class team to work and support particular students to promote their learning. As a team leader they will be an excellent and professional role model to colleagues and students.
• Have excellent behaviour management skills - understanding that challenging behaviours are a form of communication and an indication of unmet needs,
• Be resilient, self-aware and compassionate - understanding the impact of challenging behaviours on themselves, the student, other students and colleagues; they will know how and when to seek (and accept) support.
• Have a good understanding of the school curriculum, in particular the WISERR curriculum and learning priorities . They will be able to plan and deliver appropriate and creative learning opportunities for these students, using appropriate pedagogy.
• Have good ICT skills and will be able to use school systems to record student progress and to record safeguarding and behavioural concerns. They will work closely with the Department Leader to share appropriate information and support the leader in setting and reviewing targets.

Completing the application

When completing the application, please ensure that you pay close attention to the person specification and ensure that you address each point.

Please refer to your actual experience and understanding.

Please DO NOT use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to complete the application.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post meets the definition of ‘Regulated Activity’ as defined in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (as amended).

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for an enhanced DBS check to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.

IT IS AN OFFENCE TO APPLY FOR A ROLE WORKING IN REGULATED ACTIVITY IF YOU ARE BARRED FROM WORKING WITH CHILDREN

PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED POLICIES - Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy - Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy

Commitment to safeguarding

Woodlands Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children.

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 Woodlands Secondary School

• School type: Special school, ages 11 to 18
• School size: 262 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Woodlands Secondary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodlands-secondary-school (opens in new tab)

Woodlands is a large secondary special school located in the north of Luton. Our mission statement is to 'Empower our young people to become successful adults.'

Our students have severe or profound learning difficulties, some have additional learning needs.

We have developed and refined our ambitious curriculum offer to meet the needs of the different cohorts of learners to ensure that learning is interesting, relevant and functional.

We have great facilities on site and aim to enrich learning by accessing the community and applying learning beyond the classroom.

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