Teaching Assistant L4

Robert Shaw Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 3PL

24 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  16 June 2025 at 12:30pm

• Date listed

  22 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £ 27,167.60 Actual Salary per annum

Teaching Assistant L4 job summary

Level 4 Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Required from 1 September 2025

Full time 37 hours per week

Term time only

Permanent

Salary Grade F point 20-24 (£31,586-£34,314 FTE per annum)

£ 27,167.60 Actual Salary per annum

Robert Shaw Primary & Nursery School is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified, experienced, highly motivated, and dedicated Level 4 Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to support teaching and learning in the classroom to maximise the participation of our children. The role will include working with the class teachers to create a stimulating learning environment through excellent classroom practice, plan and deliver intervention sessions for key groups of children and when required provide teacher and PPA cover, delivering high quality lessons following the planning given. 

We warmly welcome applications from those who are passionate about making a real difference to the lives of children and thrives on challenging themselves and others to keep on improving. Our working relationships are positive, supportive and forward looking.  

You will:

• Be an excellent Specialist/ Higher Level Teaching Assistant, who loves working with children

• be able to provide creative, inspiring and enriching learning opportunities

• possess and use appropriate skills to undertake those activities necessary to meet the physical, emotional and educational needs of individuals and groups of children, including those with special needs

• be an enthusiastic classroom practitioner with a positive attitude and high expectations of pupils’ attainment and behaviour

• have high expectations of pupils’ achievements and a commitment to excellent standards

• work well as part of a team 

• be enthusiastic, energetic and committed to making learning exciting

• have excellent communication skills with children and adults

In return we offer:

• A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards

• Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

• Calm and purposeful learning environments

• Friendly, polite, well behaved children who deserve the very best

• Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community 

• A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

• Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment.

How to apply

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website https://transformtrust.face-ed.co.uk/vacancies. Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Any questions or queries should be directed to Mrs K Coker at Robert Shaw Primary & Nursery School, Email: headteacher@robertshaw.nottingham.sch.uk Telephone: 0115 9155765

Closing date for applications: Monday 16 June 2025 @ 12.30pm

Interviews will be held on: Thursday 26 June 2025

Transform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 8800 children in 25 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire. Joining us, you will be part of an ambitious and innovative organisation. We have a strong focus on empowering our member schools to drive their improvement journey whilst maintaining their own individual identity and community focus. 

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our purpose is to be an innovative and inclusive Trust working for all children.

We are an employer that encourages flexible working and promotes wellbeing through workload considerations.

Commitment to safeguarding

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education
All school roles are classed as regulated activity and as such, it is an offence to apply to for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children

Applying for the job

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About Robert Shaw Primary and Nursery School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 462 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Robert Shaw Primary and Nursery School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/robert-shaw-primary-and-nursery-school-nottingham

Robert Shaw Primary is a 420 place school and a 52 place Nursery in Nottingham City, it was opened in 1950 and serves the local communities of Ainsley, Aspley and Beechdale.

At our most recent OFSTED Inspection in January 2014 we were judged to be in the “Requires Improvement” category. Since this inspection we have been working extremely hard to address the priorities raised in the Inspector’s report and make progress towards being the Good school we aspire to be. We are a vibrant, multi-cultural school in Nottingham City, and we are dedicated to providing the best education for all of our children.

The Governors and staff work hard with the community of Robert Shaw School, in order to foster our ethos of mutual respect and to make British Values integral to all that we do.

The children in our school describe Robert Shaw, as like a big family where everyone looks after each other.

Our motto is ‘We strive to improve in all that we do’ and this is the belief that we instil in all of our children, and staff. By providing a stimulating and challenging environment, we provide all children with the equal opportunity to reach their personal and educational goals.

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