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Teaching Assistant (Level 2) - Higham Lane North Academy
Higham Lane School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0BJ2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
22 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full-time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,646 to £20,275
What skills and experience we're looking for
Exciting Opportunity: Join the Founding Team of Higham Lane North Academy – Opening September 2025!
We are thrilled to offer a unique opportunity to be part of the founding team at Higham Lane North Academy, a brand-new secondary school in Nuneaton, set to open in September 2025!
General Duties and Responsibilities
Working under the management of the SEND Coordinator with guidance from the relevant teacher, take responsibility for addressing the needs of students with additional needs, individually or in groups, to ensure that they can access the full curriculum, working both inside and outside the classroom.
The post has considerable impact on the well-being of individuals or groups through providing support to pupils with additional personal/special needs and contributing to the assessment of pupil need and progress.
The post holder has no direct responsibility for supervising other staff though may be expected to demonstrate tasks or advise/guide new employees, those on work experience or trainees.
The post has no direct responsibility for financial resources other than occasionally handling small amounts of cash, processing cheques, invoices etc.
The post has some responsibility for physical resources, through the preparation and care of teaching materials/resources, delivery of interventions and secure and accurate record keeping.
Curriculum support:
- Contribute to curriculum planning and evaluation and assist in implementation.
- Assist in the delivery of lessons/sessions and interact with the teacher and pupils as required.
- Undertake agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses.
- Support and use ICT in learning activities & develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use.
- 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.
- Help pupils to develop communication skills.
- Promote inclusion and acceptance of all pupils, encourage them to interact and work co-operatively and engage in activities.
- Assist in the personal, social, emotional development of pupils and development of self-esteem.
• Create, write, update and review targets on pupil passports termly and distribute to staff.
- Use specialist skills/ knowledge/ training to provide support in specialist areas.
- Encourage and reinforce positive interactions between pupils working within any behaviour targets set.
- Identify and report uncharacteristic behaviour patterns.
- Assist with pupil supervision on trips off the premises, under overall guidance of the teacher.
- Provide for general care, safety and welfare of pupils, which includes tasks connected with their social inclusion and support with personal care and physical care (such as placing students in and out of standing frames)
- To train and achieve identified medical competencies (with training and supervision from school nurse) and provide care for specified pupils.
- Following appropriate training and risk assessment, be able to operate specialist equipment, e.g. hoists.
- Supervise students during social times.
- Support the learning of students as directed by teachers.
- Monitor individual/group achievements of key objectives and provide feedback to the teacher.
- Contribute to pupil assessment through observation and reporting.
- Attend annual review meetings.
- Support implementation of strategies to manage pupil behaviour and help manage pupil behaviour.
- Active involvement in day-to-day management of the learning environment including responsibility for the care and preparation of teaching aids, equipment, materials and differentiated resources.
- Undertake routine and non-routine administrative tasks, e.g. produce worksheets, displays.
- Liaise with parents/carers, specialist teachers and other professional staff, share and provide information.
- Keep up to date keyworker meeting records
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.
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
Further details about the School
This state-of-the-art school and community resource is at the new, Milby Meadows neighbourhood on Upper Farm Drive, Nuneaton Warwickshire, CV11 6YN. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 920-pupil school. The school will include a Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) with up to 20 places available by 2030.
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 tojobs@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 22nd May 2025. Interviews will take place in June 2025.
Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form: -
- 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.
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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