High Level Teaching Assistant

32.50 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 3.30pm, term time plus one week

Woodlands Primary and Nursery School are looking to appoint a HLTA to start asap. We are looking for an experienced, organised, capable, intuitive, and enthusiastic HLTA to work as a valuable part of our school team providing, PPA cover and curriculum support across school. The successful candidate will:

• Have sound literacy and numeracy skills.
• Hold the relevant HLTA qualification and have experience either in Early Years & Foundation Stage / Key Stage 1 or 2.
• Have knowledge of Read Write Inc. or other phonic programmes.
• Be creative and committed to making learning interesting and fun!
• Inspire trust, instil confidence, and embrace challenges, in order to raise pupil attainment.
• Be able to work as part of a successful, hardworking, dedicated team. Have had experience of shared planning and assessment to enable the interpretation of data to support target setting and pupil tracking.
• Have a good sense of humour.
• Be flexible and able to adapt to a change in circumstances without prior notice.
• Show an understanding of a restorative behaviour approach.
This is an excellent opportunity to work in a friendly, supportive school, committed to continuing professional development.

Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021. At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us. Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.

In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement. At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our 'guaranteed interview scheme' here You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here and the Transgender & Non-Binary Inclusion Policy commitments here