8 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2024

  • Closing date

    5 July 2024 at 8am

  • Date listed

    20 June 2024

Job details

Job role

  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Term time: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.00pm Term time plus one week (staff inset days to be worked)

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£24,702 - £27,334

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Can use ICT effectively to support learning
  • Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice/legislation
  • Working knowledge and experience of implementing national/foundation stage curriculum and other relevant learning programmes/strategies
  • Good understanding of child development and learning processes
  • Understanding of statutory frameworks relating to teaching
  • Ability to organise, lead and motivate a team
  • Constantly improve own practice/knowledge through self-evaluation and learning from others
  • Ability to relate well to children and adults
  • Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these

What the school offers its staff

Local Government Pension Scheme, Contractual Sick Pay , Occupational Health Service, Employee Assistance Programme, Free Car Parking, Holiday Pay, Cycle to work scheme

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

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Apply for the job by following the link below

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About Dean Trust Wigan

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
791 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

Dean Trust Wigan is part of The Dean Trust, which has a number of very high performing schools and a proven track record of sustained improvement. The Dean Trust’s core values include traditional academic education, excellent discipline and respect, resulting in improved attainment and progress. “Believe, Achieve, Succeed” has been embraced by all of the schools in The Dean Trust.

Ofsted October 2023- 'Pupils and staff at the school are right to identify the Dean Trust Wigan as an improving school...The school has high expectations for pupils’ academic achievement. Pupils understand how they should behave. Most pupils meet the school’s raised expectations for behaviour. In lessons, most pupils embody the school’s values of ‘be ready, be respectful, be responsible’ through their improved attitudes to learning'.

Arranging a visit to Dean Trust Wigan

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ashishchacko@deantrustwigan.co.uk.

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