Reading Support HLTA
The Ramsey Academy, Halstead, Halstead, Essex, CO9 2HR12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 12 hours per week over 2 days 8:30am – 3:00pm 30 mins unpaid break Term Time Only + 5 Inset Days, 39 weeks a year Permanent Primarily based in Halstead but may be required to work at other schools within our Trust.
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £7,458 - £7,824
Pay scale
- Scale 5 points 8-11
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the role:
This is an exciting opportunity to join Bridge Academy Trust to support our new initiative supporting reading across our 4 secondary schools. The successful candidate will be primarily based at The Ramsey Academy, Halstead, working with identified children 1-2-1 (or very small group) to accelerate their reading age. You will be supported by a dedicated team to bring about the desired improvements. You will maximise the use of school’s reading schemes and liaise with the school-based reading leads to ensure that staff, parents, and children are all engaged in the reading intervention programme. The aim is for these children to have a reading age in-line with their biological age as soon as possible.
We are seeking to appoint an individual who:
- Is passionate about literature and engaging pupils with reading
- Has experience in reading schemes used in schools
- Has the ability to adapt teaching of reading to meet pupils’ needs
- Has the ability to build effective working relationships with pupils
- Is ambitious for our pupils, our schools and themselves.
What the school offers its staff
- A supportive environment with a welcoming team who are hardworking and committed to achieving the best outcomes
- High quality continual professional development
- Shared working of a community-focused, multi-academy trust
- The opportunity to be part of the school’s exciting journey of improvement
- Career development and opportunity to progress within the school/multi-academy trust
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references. Bridge Academy Trust welcomes applications from those of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnic groups.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About The Ramsey Academy, Halstead
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 744 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Ramsey Academy, Halstead website
- Email address
- hunterr@bridgeacademytrust.org
The Ramsey Academy is a popular over-subscribed secondary school in the heart of the Halstead community.
Our focus is to ‘Achieve Excellence Together’. We work hard to support students in their educational journey and provide them with the skills and knowledge they need for their future.
The Ramsey Academy is part of the Bridge Academy Trust: a collegiate and collaborative Trust, where, first and foremost, each school is a place of (high quality) learning, where young people ENJOY, ENRICH & ACHIEVE. The core purpose is to provide high quality continuity of every child’s journey through education from 3 to 19, with a community and school-led school improvement approach and long-term sustainable strategy
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