Havering Schools Jobs
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
- Employer: Empower Learning Academy Trust
- Reference: EMP/25/314171
EMPOWER LEARNING ACADEMY TRUST
Ardleigh Green Infant and Junior Schools
Ardleigh Green Road
Hornchurch
RM11 2SP
Tel: 01708 449362
Inspiring Leaners, Changing Lives
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year
Salary: Grade 4 points 10-15, £23,758 - £25,543 per annum. FTE £30,630 - £32,931 per annum (Inclusive of Outer London Weighting)
Contract: Permanent
Required as soon as possible
Inspire and be inspired
Our mission is to ‘inspire learners and change lives’ – and that includes our staff. We want to empower our teams so pupils are ready to be kind, confident and impactful world citizens. To help us, we wish to appoint an experienced and qualified Higher Level Teaching Assistant to support our Inclusion department across both the infant and junior schools.
The Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) is one member of a team of professionals that will include teachers and other teaching assistants. The team works together to care for and educate the pupils in the school. The HTLA makes a specific contribution to the school inclusion team and reports to the Assistant Headteacher (AHT) for Inclusion. Their role will include supporting the schools’ strategic plan for Inclusion and will include supporting the AHT with administrative tasks as well as taking a lead role in supporting support staff.
The successful candidate will:
- Be a qualified and experienced HLTA
- Supervise/cover classes (instead of a supply teacher) at short notice in the absence of a teacher (unplanned absence)
- Manage a team of teaching assistants and supervise the work of other teaching assistants and contribute to their on-the-job training and their continuing professional development
- Have effective communication
- Be confident working with students who have a range of SEND
- Ability to adapt or modify interactions to meet pupil needs
- Ability to summarise and present information from observations of pupil performance
- Effective time management, planning and collaboration
- Ability to provide a structured activity within a group setting
- Understand group dynamics and how to apply them
- Ability to recognise the range and implications of factors that impact pupil behaviour
- An understanding of the behaviour patterns that might indicate problems such as substance abuse, bullying or child abuse
- Active in wider community inclusion for children with special educational needs and an interest in developing a career in education
In return, we offer:
- High quality professional development
- Supportive and friendly colleagues
- Flexible working opportunities
- Staff assistance programme including virtual GP appointments, counselling service, legal services
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Cycle to work scheme
Applications
Please forward your completed application to Rose Toth, HR Officer at hr@elatschools.co.uk by 12pm on Thursday 12th June 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place soon after. Please note that the Trust reserves the right to interview prior to the deadline date.
For further information about this role, please contact Paula Broadmore via email at pbroadmore@elatschools.co.uk
The Empower Learning Academy Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer that is committed to safer recruitment. All applicants must be prepared to undergo screening to confirm their suitability to work with children.
Havering Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The protection of our pupils from abuse is the responsibility of all staff within our schools, superseding any other considerations. Therefore Havering Schools comply with the Department for Education ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance.
It is an offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. Please be advised that, again in line with ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, shortlisted candidates (who wish to accept an invite to interview) will be required to submit, prior to their interview, a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Upon submission of this information, online checks may be carried out.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the successful applicant will be expected to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure check. Having a criminal record will not necessarily debar you from obtaining a position with the School.
Equal OpportunitiesHavering Schools aim to promote and ensure equality of opportunity and equal treatment for all. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), ethnic or national origins, disabilities, age, sexual orientation, responsibility for dependants, religious or political affiliation and trade union activities. All matters related to employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
How to apply
Please forward your completed application to Rose Toth, HR Officer at hr@elatschools.co.uk by 12pm on Thursday 12th June 2025