HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant)

Thank you for your interest in the HLTA role at St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School. St Kentigern's is a happy and successful school with a strong, caring Catholic ethos in the Blessed Edward Bamber Catholic Multi Academy Trust in the Diocese of Lancaster. The whole school team is dedicated to achieving the full potential of all its children.

We are seeking to appoint an excellent, highly motivated and hardworking member of the team who will work with teachers to organise and support teaching and learning activities for classes. The primary focus is to cover PPA time, and to carry out specified work with individuals, groups and whole classes under the direction and supervision of a qualified teacher.

We are a one form entry Catholic Primary school. The successful candidate will contribute fully to the life of the school and will be an integral part of the St Kentigern's team.

As a Catholic school, we offer our children the opportunity to grow as young people and encourage them to develop a closer relationship with God in an atmosphere of mutual love and respect. We seek to live out the values of Jesus Christ daily, promoting them by our words and deeds. Jesus told us to "Treat others as you would like to be treated", our school motto, and this reminds us every day to go the extra mile for the children within our care.

At St. Kentigern's, we always put children first. We have a safe, happy environment in which children can strive to do their best at everything they are given the opportunity to do. We listen carefully to our children and allow them to influence our curriculum and their learning as much as possible. We do our best to foster within each child a desire for learning and a desire to make the right choices.

We actively encourage a high level of support from our parents, local and parish community. Children get on well at school when parents feel able to support school. At St. Kentigern's, we try to achieve this by welcoming parents into school as much as possible to things like assemblies, progress meetings, volunteering on trips, 'stay and play' times and PTFA events.

Finally, we are blessed with an extremely dedicated, hardworking staff team who go above and beyond, which is required so that children are treated as individuals who matter; receive the best possible education; enjoy learning at school with a creative, exciting, challenging curriculum; and have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of sporting and extra-curricular activities.

The post available is for 30 hours per week, on a term time only basis plus 5 inset days, and is offered on a fixed term basis for 12 months from the start date with the potential to be made permanent.