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Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Newdale Primary School & Nursery

Employer: Telford & Wrekin Council

Location: Marlborough Way Newdale Telford Shropshire

Salary: £14.60 per hour

Closing date: 28 Apr 2025

Reference: TW/TP/214/1666

Sector: Education

Job Type: Schools / Academies - Support staff roles, Teaching assistant

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: See advert details

Hours: Part-Time

Job Details

Required from September 2025

Temporary-fixed in the first instance with the potential for it to become permanent

32.5 hours per week. 8.00 am - 3.30 pm Term time only

Are you an enthusiastic, hardworking and high-quality higher level teaching assistant? If so, you may be just the person to join our supportive and friendly team at our wonderful school.

The HLTA role is a combination of covering PPA and management time across the primary phase and some in-class or small group support. You will need to have a good subject knowledge across the curriculum and be prepared to teach classes of pupils from Reception to Year 6.

The successful candidate will be expected to work under the direction and supervision of qualified teachers, in accordance with arrangements made by the Headteacher of the school.

The successful applicants will have:

• The HLTA status or equivalent
• Experience of teaching whole classes especially within KS1 and KS2
• A good understanding of how to ensure that vulnerable pupils thrive within a primary school setting
• A passion for securing the best outcomes for children
• A positive outlook with a sense of humour and a 'can do' attitude
• A commitment to safeguarding of children
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to establish and sustain constructive relationships with children and adults
• The ability to use their initiative and be flexible
• A desire to play a full part in the life of the school and the local community

Visits: We will be running tours on Thursday 10th April 2025 at 3:45pm (please call the office on to book a place on this tour). Though tours are not essential, we do strongly encourage them.

Closing Date: Monday 28th April 2025

Interview Date: Wednesday 7th May 2025

Applications to be emailed to our School Business Manager: rebecca.western@taw.org.uk or handed in via our school office.

The school is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All successful candidates are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This role will be engaging in regulated activity with children. Our child protection and safeguarding policy can be found on our school website or requested via our office.

We are committed to equality and diversity.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as stated in the person specification.

Attached documents:

• Job Description
• Application Notes
• Application Form

Company

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.

If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk

We reserve the right to close our advertisements early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Company info

Website: http://www.telford.gov.uk/

Telephone:

Location: Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom

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Are you an enthusiastic, hardworking and high-quality higher level teaching assistant? If so, you may be just the person to join our supportive and friendly team at our wonderful school. The HLTA role is a combination of covering PPA and management time across the primary phase and some in-class or small group support. You will need to have a good subject knowledge across the curriculum and be prepared to teach classes of pupils from Reception to Year 6. The successful candidate will be expected to work under the direction and supervision of qualified teachers, in accordance with arrangements made by the Headteacher of the school. The successful applicants will have -

• The HLTA status or equivalent
• Experience of teaching whole classes especially within KS1 and KS2
• A good understanding of how to ensure that vulnerable pupils thrive within a primary school setting
• A passion for securing the best outcomes for children
• A positive outlook with a sense of humour and a 'can do' attitude
• A commitment to safeguarding of children
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to establish and sustain constructive relationships with children and adults
• The ability to use their initiative and be flexible
• A desire to play a full part in the life of the school and the local community
Visits: We will be running tours on Thursday 10th April 2025 at 3:45pm (please call the office on to book a place on this tour). Though tours are not essential, we do strongly encourage them., This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as stated in the person specification.

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