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School Support Worker - Higham Lane North Academy
Higham Lane School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0BJ12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 31.25 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £18,030 to £19,646 (dependent on service and experience). This does not include the pending Pay Award)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic School Support Worker to join our BRAND-NEW secondary school, Higham Lane North Academy (Nuneaton, CV11 6YN), part of Central England Academy Trust.
This is a varied and rewarding role providing both general classroom support across all subjects and specific assistance within our Science and Design Technology (DT) departments. The successful candidate will play a vital part in the daily operation of lessons, helping staff deliver high-quality learning experiences.
Teaching Assistance and Support:
•Assist teachers in delivering engaging and effective lessons across various subjects as required. •Support individual students and small groups under the guidance of teaching staff to ensure their learning needs are met. •Provide classroom cover when needed, including supervising pre-prepared lessons in the unplanned absence of a teacher. e.g. sick leave or other emergency leave of absence or be planned, e.g. attendance at INSET or other professional development activity or a medical appointment. •Assist with the preparation of teaching materials and resources. •Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model and setting high expectations. •Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom, encourage them to interact and work co-operatively with others and engage all in activities. •Implement school strategies and procedures and monitor and provide for the care, safety and welfare of students. •Support individuals or groups during independent /group work, e.g. explain tasks, reinforce key objectives/concepts or vocabulary, use practical apparatus, support less able pupils, extend/challenge more able, keep pupils on task, interested, motivated, and engaged. •Assist with the development and implementation of IEPs/behaviour plans. •Carry out lunch time duties as determined by the School’s needs at the time. •Undertake manual handling training. •Supervising a whole class to undertake set work / activities and can include introducing and closing the class, keeping students engaged in learning. •Invigilation and preparation for examinations or controlled assessments as and when necessary. •Undertake admin tasks as appropriate and co-ordination of displays as directed.
Science and Design Technology Support:
•Support Science and DT staff in preparing, setting up, and dismantling equipment and materials for practical lessons. •Maintain cleanliness, organisation, and safety within prep rooms and teaching spaces. •Ensure all practical activities are carried out safely and in line with relevant health and safety guidance. •Assist in the inventory management of tools, materials, and chemicals, including ordering and restocking supplies as required. •Provide in-class technical support during practical activities when appropriate.
What the school offers its staff
What we offer
At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.
Employee Support Schemes:
- Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- A Gym Membership Scheme
- A Cycle to Work Scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
- An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.
- A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more
Further details about the role
How to Apply:
Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the School’s website (www.hlna.co.uk) and email them to jobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for. If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 7638 8123.
The closing date for applications is midday, Thursday 3rd July 2025
Interviews will likely take place the following week.
Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form: -
- Why you would like to work at Higham Lane North Academy
- Why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will also be taken through the School's vetting procedure. Higham Lane School is also strongly committed to protecting personal data. Our Privacy Notice, which can be found under the GDPR section on the School website, describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@hlna.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Higham Lane School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1425 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Higham Lane School website
- Email address
- jobs@hlna.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476388123
Part of the Central England Academy Trust, Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College is a large, 11-18 comprehensive academy, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections. The school and sixth form college forms part of the CEAT trust and schools within our small trust work closely together bringing many benefits to both students and staff.
We offer an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum where we value equally achievement in all its forms: artistic, academic, social, cultural, sporting and intellectual. All students achieve well at Higham Lane School, and in 2023 our Progress 8 figure was 0.56 which is testament to how well students, teachers and parents/carers work together effectively. We are committed to ensuring that an ambitious curriculum, combined with evidence-informed teaching and learning, and excellent behaviour from students make Higham Lane School a thriving environment for all that work and study here. Our Progress 8 figure for 2023 puts us in the top 6% of state-funded mainstream schools for progress, which we are delighted with, and we are committed to building upon this fantastic achievement for our students.
We were extremely pleased to have been rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in May 2019, one of only a small number of schools in England to have achieved the highest rating that year. We are also delighted that we continue to achieve impressive A level results in our high-performing Sixth Form with an average grade of B- placing the school within the top 4 mainstream Sixth Form schools in Warwickshire and the highest-performing in North Warwickshire, which again shows how students, staff and parents/carers work together effectively. In July 2021, we were granted World Class Schools status, one of a very small number of schools to achieve this.
We are also very excited to be opening a new free school, Higham Lane North Academy, in September 2025. Just a mile away from Higham Lane School, there will be exciting opportunities for the two secondary schools, as part of the wider trust, to work together with many mutual benefits for both students and staff.
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to ‘Work Hard, Be Kind and Take Responsibility within the overall aim to “Be the best you can be!”
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