Lead Teaching Assistant (HLTA - Class Cover)
Longthorpe Primary Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 9QW15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
23rd November 2026 or sooner
Closing date
6 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £29,635.00 - £32,761.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 9 | NJC Points 24-28 | Full Time Equivalent: £36587 - £40,445
Lead Teaching Assistant (HLTA - Class Cover) job summary
About the Role
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.
Is this You?
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.
What We Offer
- A supportive, friendly, and collaborative staff team
- High‑quality professional development opportunities
- A school committed to safeguarding, wellbeing, and the highest standards of education
- The opportunity to play a key role in shaping pupils’ learning and progress
- Employer Pension contribution
- Over 250 employee exclusive benefits through our partners Perkbox.
- Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7
- Free on-site car parking
- Free tea and coffee
Longthorpe Primary Academy is a wonderful, multi-cultural school where children feel safe, happy and secure. We are a vibrant place of learning, underpinned by expert teaching of a broad curriculum and high levels of pastoral care. Our children leave well-prepared for the next phase of their education, taking with them a love of learning, a curiosity about the world, the ability to care about others and confidence that they will succeed.
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.
Safeguarding Statement
Keys Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check and appropriate references will be required.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Longthorpe Primary Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 401 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Longthorpe Primary School is a vibrant, inclusive and wonderfully diverse school where every child is valued, encouraged and inspired to achieve their very best. We are passionate about developing confident, independent and conscientious learners who are equipped with the knowledge, skills and resilience to thrive in the future.
Our dedicated staff are at the heart of our success, working together to create a nurturing, ambitious and supportive environment where children can flourish and colleagues can make a real difference. We are proud to be a school where every day brings the opportunity to inspire, empower and shape the lives of young people – helping them to become successful learners and positive, responsible members of society.
UNITED IN DIVERSITY, INSPIRED FOR LIFE
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