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St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0JH2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £13.47 - £14.36 Hourly
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Join Our Team as a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) at St Mary's CE VA Primary School!
Are you ready to make a difference in children’s lives while working in a supportive and inspiring environment? We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic HLTA to join our team.
Hours: 13 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (can be 2 days a week or across multiple days - this is negotiable)
Salary: NJC Grade 8-12
About the Role:
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HLTA or someone ready to step into the role with strong classroom leadership skills. While a formal HLTA qualification is desirable, it’s not essential—we’re looking for individuals with proven knowledge and experience of leading in the classroom.
As an HLTA, you’ll support teachers by leading agreed learning activities under their supervision. This may involve:
Planning, preparing, and delivering engaging lessons for individuals, groups, or whole classes.
Monitoring pupil progress and assessing, recording, and reporting on their achievements and development.
Working across all key stages.
At St Mary's, we believe in creating opportunities for children to thrive and grow into confident, successful adults. We want to empower every child to shape their own future and achieve their dreams.
What We Offer:
A positive, friendly, and supportive working environment.
A school community dedicated to achieving the best for every child.
National terms and conditions.
Membership in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Continuing Professional Development opportunities.
Access to wellbeing initiatives and our Employee Assistance Programme.
What We’re Looking For:
Someone passionate about making a difference in children’s lives.
A team player with excellent communication and organisational skills.
Experience leading within the classroom, with the ability to motivate and inspire pupils.
Flexibility to work across all key stages.
Ready to Join Us?
Visits to our school are encouraged—we’d love to show you what makes us so special. To arrange a visit, please contact our school office.
For more information about us please have a look at our school website www.stmarysprimarykettering.co.uk
We only accept online applications via the My New Term website. Please complete your application before the closing date. Interviews may be held as applications are received, so we reserve the right to close the advert early.
St Mary’s CE VA Primary Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks to ensure their suitability for safeguarding children. Shortlisted candidates will have online searches carried out prior to interview.
Appointments are excluded from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applications must declare any convictions which for other purposes are “Spent” and in the event of employment, failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the school. Applicants must provide the information requested on a questionnaire sent at the time of short-listing and understand that the provisionally selected candidate for such posts will be required to apply for a Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure at the appropriate level. Any information will be treated confidentially.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to DBS checks along with other relevant employment checks to ensure their suitability for safeguarding children.
Appointments are excluded from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applications must declare any convictions which for other purposes are “Spent” and in the event of employment, failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the school. Any information will be treated confidentially.
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.
About St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 266 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Would you like to work in a kind, caring and loving Church School Family? We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic, vibrant and dynamic teacher to join our passionate and supportive team in September.
We are looking for an engaging, fabulous teacher who wants to create an imaginative, structured and successful learning environment to ensure high quality outcomes for all our children. We have strong values throughout the school and have excellent pastoral care for all our children and staff. Experienced teachers will drive a subject area to ensure that the whole curriculum is valued and fully embedded. ECTs will benefit from a committed program of support from the school.
We are an Ofsted ‘Good’ school – September 2019, and a SIAMS "Outstanding" school - July 2016. "The school lives and breathes their values in everything they do". Our philosophy is child centred and we seek to enrich their lives through every activity and learning opportunity that they are given.
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