PPA and Management Time Cover Lead
High Meadow Community School, Coleshill, Warwickshire, B46 1ES13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
3 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Part Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- HLTA-Warwickshire Grade H SCP14–17 (pro rata), depending on experience.
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Higher-Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to join our dedicated team from September 2026. Applications from qualified teachers seeking a flexible role are also welcome.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented practitioner to work across the school, delivering high-quality learning during teachers’ PPA time and leadership release time, while making a genuine difference to children’s outcomes.
The successful candidate will work across classes and key stages as required. Specific timetabled days, classes and deployment arrangements are not yet fixed and will be confirmed once whole-school staffing and curriculum planning for the new academic year has been finalised. Flexibility and willingness to work across different year groups will therefore be essential.
Main Responsibilities Teaching and Learning
- Plan, prepare and deliver high-quality lessons to whole classes during cover sessions.
- Deliver curriculum lessons likely to include RE, Music, Art or Spanish, depending on final timetable arrangements and school need.
- Use agreed schemes of work and progression materials to ensure strong curriculum coverage.
- Adapt learning effectively for pupils with SEND, disadvantaged pupils and higher attainers.
- Maintain high expectations for behaviour, participation, presentation and outcomes.
- Assess learning during lessons and provide feedback to class teachers.
- Liaise with staff to ensure continuity of learning and clear next steps.
Wider Responsibilities
- Support pupils with identified needs to make academic, social and emotional progress.
- Prepare resources for teaching and learning.
- Contribute positively to school events, visits and wider enrichment opportunities.
- Work collaboratively with teachers, leaders and support staff.
- Attend training and relevant meetings.
- Uphold safeguarding procedures and school policies at all times.
We Are Looking For Someone Who:
- Holds HLTA status or has significant relevant classroom experience
- Has strong classroom presence and effective behaviour management skills
- Can confidently lead whole-class learning across the primary age range
- Builds warm, positive relationships with children
- Is organised, reliable and proactive
- Understands how children learn and how to secure progress
- Is flexible, adaptable and enjoys variety
- Works positively as part of a team
- Has high expectations and a good sense of humour
What the school offers its staff
Why Join High Meadow?
We offer:
- Happy, respectful children who enjoy learning
- A caring, inclusive ethos where every child matters
- A friendly, collaborative and supportive staff team
- Strong leadership with commitment to staff wellbeing
- Excellent professional development opportunities
- A school that values teamwork, positivity and innovation
- A genuine community school with strong family links
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About High Meadow Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 197 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- High Meadow Community School website
- Email address
- cassisi.t@welearn365.com
- Phone number
- 01675462312
High Meadow Community School is a thriving, growing primary school at the heart of the community.
Our school learning environment is bright and well resourced and our children in Nursery and Reception enjoy learning and playing together in a creative, nature inspired space. To accommodate our conversion from infant to primary school, we now have a wonderful, creative new learning space called 'The Burrow' which is home to our Key Stage 2 classes, namely The Rabbits, The Hedgehogs, The Foxes and The Otters. The Burrow has been built to optimise children's connection with nature; overlooking our natural meadow and Forest School with floor to ceiling windows, a living turf roof and their own outdoor space in which to enjoy the natural world.
Alongside our amazing learning space, we are proud to be a Gold Arts Mark Award school which recognises the importance of ensuring the Arts run through the heart of our curriculum. Weekly music and singing lessons led by a range of peripatetic specialists ensure our spaces are full of joy and harmonies too!
Our children also benefit from weekly Forest School lessons led by our qualified Forest School Leader. There, children learn to appreciate and love the natural world as well as build dens, roast marshmallows on open fires and build bug hotels to encourage the minibeasts to take up residence in our amazing space.
All of our practice is informed by research with the Education Endowment Foundation recommendations influencing everything we do. We teach Maths using a Mastery approach and are in the third year of working with the White Rose (now Origin) Maths Hubs. Our maths lead now showcases her outstanding maths teaching to other schools who are at the start of their maths mastery journey. In english, we recognise the importance of the development early language and as such use the Storytelling Approach to teach literacy skills from the early years through to the spring term of Year 1. We then transition to the Power of Reading (led by Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) where high quality children's books help develop our children into outstanding readers and writers. To find out even more about our wonderful school please check out our website.
Arranging a visit to High Meadow Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email cassisi.t@welearn365.com.
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Glen Hills Primary School
Featherby Drive, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 9NY
SS John and Monica Catholic Primary School
Chantry Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 8DW
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Warwickshire