Higher Level Teaching Assistant

We are looking for a Higher Level Teaching Assistant. This is an exciting opportunity to join Orchard Park High School and become an integral member of the SEN department.

The successful applicant must be high performing and passionate about education and the improvement of life changes for our children, and committed to continuing to develop the foundations we have already built here at Orchard Park High School. Our school will be disruption free every minute, of every lesson, of every day. We are relentless in our drive for high expectations. Our CPD provision is excellent. Beginning teachers (especially) develop rapidly in our school.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are 'Always Learning'.

Orchard Park has a large SEND department and an Enhanced Learning Provision which is dedicated to students with Developmental Language Disorder. Students within the ELP receive additional support in their classes as well as interventions on social skills and weekly SaLT - both from the therapist and led by the linked TA. All our SEND students are fully part of the main school and engage in all activities; they are a thriving group of students who go on to be very successful when leaving our school. The HLTA will oversee the interventions run for all ELP students as well as other students on the SEND register in the school.

• To provide and deliver learning activities for small groups as well as support in lessons


• To plan, prepare and deliver sessions to small groups from mainstream and/or resource base and assess, record and report on development, progress and attainment


• To be responsible for the delivery of designated curricula including specific interventions as well as ensuring the quality assurance of all interventions runs by the TAs


• To support the SENCO with administrative tasks to ensure the best outcomes for our students with SEND


• To support with adapting and creating timetables of TAs and support staff to best meet the needs of our SEND pupils.