SEND HLTA

Cedar Mount Academy, Gorton, Greater Manchester, M18 7DT

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £28,506.00 - £31,275.00 Annually (Actual)

SEND HLTA job summary

SEND HLTAs work with the SEND Team, Alternative Provision, Progress Leasers, and Senior Staff to strategically support individual and small groups of students to realise their full potential and secure good outcomes. Our school is a fantastic place to work. We have been on a strong journey of improvement and are ambitious about our next steps. We are a team of staff and students who are working together relentlessly to ensure a world class education for all our students. You will benefit from supportive colleagues, a forward looking Executive Leader, Principal and a supportive Trust with engaged and supportive parents. Most importantly, we have truly incredible students. In short, we have a very warm and welcoming school team. Along with this, the Bright Futures Educational trust have a comprehensive SEND strategy encompassing our trust Educational Psychologist team and specialist support from our two outstanding special schools. We are open, supportive and flexible with high-quality CPD opportunities through our Teaching School Hubs and Professional Development Institute where we are able to harness the very practice.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Cedar Mount Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 724 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Cedar Mount Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cedar-mount-academy

Cedar Mount Academy is located within Gorton Educational Village in Gorton, East Manchester and shares the campus with two of our partner schools in the Trust; Melland High School, a Special Educational Needs school for 11-19 years and Rushbrook Primary Academy.

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