SEND HLTA
Richard Lee Primary School, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2 5FU12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
15 September 2025
Closing date
5 October 2025 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
15 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 4 – £25,989 FTE- Pro Rata £21,333
SEND HLTA job summary
SEND HLTA – Adjusted Provision Lead – Maternity Cover
8.15am to 4.15 pm, Monday to Thursday and 8:15am to 3:45pm on Fridays (with half an hour unpaid break), term time only plus Teacher Training Days
Grade 4 – £25,989 FTE- Pro Rata to days and hours worked - £21,333
Maternity Cover- FTC from November 2025 - 23 October 2026
Required to start: November 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for a SEND HLTA to join our fantastic school leading our Adjusted Provision (Wings) working as part of our excellent SEND Team. The successful candidate will be someone who is highly passionate about SEND and is dedicated to ensuring that children are safe, happy and thriving. They will ensure that children make positive steps of progress and will ultimately improve outcomes through high quality SEND provision. They will be organised, resilient and able to use their initiative and will be confident working independently but will also be able to work effectively as a team. The core focus of this job is to lead our Adjusted Provision, supporting our children identified as having Special Educational Needs and Disabilities with an EHCP; including delivery of high quality teaching and provision, effective use of resources, and ensuring high standards of learning and achievement for all pupils. The successful candidate will be supported by our fantastic Assistant Headteacher/SENDCo and our highly ambitious senior leadership team who will invest time to help you in your new role.
Ideally the successful candidates will have:
• Experience of working with children across the primary age range
• Knowledge and understanding of child development.
• A desire to further develop their skills.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills.
• An approachable and resilient attitude
• A passion for supporting all children to be the best they can be.
• Motivation to work with all children and young people;
• Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people;
• Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviors.
As a successful primary school working as part of a multi-academy trust, we can offer:
• High quality, ongoing professional development as part of the Castle Phoenix Multi-Academy Trust
• A supportive, friendly and hardworking staff team who are united in their drive to achieve the very best outcomes for every child;
• Friendly, happy and well-behaved children who are keen and eager to learn
• An excellent support network through our hardworking, committed staff including fortnightly training related to your role in school.
• A range of benefits which includes cycle to work, free parking, the local government pension scheme and an employee discount scheme, generous holiday entitlement and a commitment to staff wellbeing and recognition initiatives through our wellbeing committee and people strategy.
Visits and applications: Our Assistant Headteacher/SENDCo, Azra Foric, would be delighted to meet you and talk about the opportunity. To arrange a visit, please email Azra Foric.
Closing date: Midnight 5 October 2025
Interviews: 17 October 2025
If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date for applications, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and young people and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance.
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 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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Richard Lee Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 406 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Richard Lee Primary School website
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