Lead Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Thorpe Primary Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 9UG

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  12 May 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  23 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £35,412.05 - £39,152.02 Annually (FTE) Grade 9 Spine Point 24 to 28 (Actual salary: £26,636.99 to £29450.20 for part-time and term-time working)

Lead Teaching Assistant (HLTA) job summary

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to join our team and play a key role in supporting high‑quality teaching and learning across the school. As an HLTA, you will provide effective classroom cover for both planned and unplanned teacher absence, support pupils to make strong progress from their starting points, and contribute to a positive, inclusive, and purposeful learning environment.

In this varied and rewarding role, you will:

• Deliver planned learning activities and provide high‑quality cover across the school.
• Work with whole classes, small groups, and individual pupils—including those with SEND and EAL—to ensure they can access the curriculum and make sustained progress.
• Use your specialist skills, training, and experience to support pupil learning, wellbeing, and independence.
• Contribute to planning, preparation, and assessment, offering insightful feedback to teachers and parents.
• Support the implementation of behaviour strategies in line with school policy.
• Build positive relationships with pupils, staff, parents, and external professionals.
• Assist with monitoring and recording pupil progress using a range of assessment techniques.
• Participate in training, CPD, school meetings, and wider school life.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is committed to the aims and ethos of a high‑performing school.
• Has strong literacy and numeracy skills (minimum 5 GCSEs including English and Maths).
• Has experience planning and leading teaching and learning activities.
• Understands how to meet a range of learning needs and support inclusion for all pupils.
• Communicates effectively and works well as part of a team.
• Uses initiative, is well‑organised, and is committed to professional growth.

Experience working with pupils with SEND, leading interventions, or delivering whole‑class learning is desirable.

We are proud to belong to Keys Academes Trust, and this gives us the opportunity to collaborate with other schools and to further enhance our children’s school experiences.

I hope that, by reading this information pack and by considering how your own skills match those needed to meet this fulfilling role, you will feel inspired to apply for the post. Visits to the school are very welcome; meeting the staff and the children will give you a clearer picture of the opportunity that this role offers.  

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Parkhouse, Headteacher

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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

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.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Thorpe Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 495 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Thorpe Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/thorpe-primary-school

Thorpe Primary School is a wonderful, multi-cultural school where children feel safe, happy and secure, and leave well-prepared for the next phase of their education. An engaging and innovative curriculum inspires children and equips them with skills, experience and confidence to achieve their best. We strive for children to develop into successful learners and well-rounded individuals through high quality teaching and pastoral care across the school.

Our dedicated staff work incredibly hard to secure good outcomes for children. They work together to ensure the curriculum we offer is purposeful and memorable for all children as well as offering a wide range of extra-curricular activities and opportunities.

Our provision is enhanced by our good relationships with parents, Academy Committee and the wider community, all of whom we work in partnership with.

We are located within the bustling city of Peterborough and enjoy direct rail links with London. Peterborough is known for its diverse and inclusive culture which is something we celebrate throughout our school; with 28% of our pupils having English as an additional language. We are proud to serve the families of Netherton and western Peterborough.

We have high expectations for all our pupils and staff, and consider our families to be partners, recognising the vital role that they play. We want to work together as a team, to fully realise the potential of all of our children.

We benefit from an on-site internal Nursery, which is the main feeder Nursery into our school. We have recently benefited from various site work to refresh our Nursery provision, including internal and outdoor spaces.

We work closely with our four Trust schools (Jack Hunt, Longthorpe Primary, Nova Primary and Ravensthorpe Primary), as all schools are within a maximum 15-minute walking distance from each other, which allows us to work collaboratively with our peers across both primary and secondary settings. We are all proud members of Keys Academies Trust.

We benefit from wide outdoor spaces, including a luxurious school field and dedicated play areas and outdoor learning environments, including a recently refurbished outdoor EYFS and Nursery space.

We welcome new colleagues to join our dedicated team, who will bring energy, optimism and a drive to build dreams for our pupils.

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