Enhanced HLTA

Location: Coventry, West Midlands

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, Term Time

Salary: Enhanced HLTA – Grade 5 £28,598 - £34,434 FTE. (Pro-rata to hours and weeks worked £24,816 - £29,880)

Start Date: As Soon As Possible

About the Role:

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and committed Enhanced Higher Level Teaching Assistant to take a leading role in our Adapted Resource Provision (ARP) and supporting pupils who require bespoke interventions outside the mainstream classroom. This enhanced role offers a unique opportunity to work across multiple areas of our provision, intervention delivery and classroom support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and lead our Adapted Resource Provision (ARP) for pupils with SEMH, SEND, or other additional needs
• Plan, deliver and evaluate tailored interventions and support programmes
• Liaise with teaching staff, SENCOs, and external agencies to ensure cohesive support
• Mentor and support other support staff within the provision
• Deliver whole-class and small-group teaching across subjects, when required
• Contribute to assessment, planning and pupil progress tracking
• Support behaviour management strategies and foster a nurturing learning environment
• Play an active role in the wider pastoral and academic life of the school
• Work with teachers, pastoral staff, SENCOs, education welfare officers and other agencies to identify pupils with barriers to learning and at risk of disaffection in order to ensure that these receive support
• Report to the Safeguarding Lead on progress and activity around Early Help and work with vulnerable families. Propose and take action as agreed.
• Complete Early Help assessments with families in order to assist them in seeking the most appropriate support
• Produce action plans for work with parents/carers and families in line with the School Development Plan and to ensure their co-ordinated implementation with relevant staff.
• Establish and maintain contact with the families/carers of pupils receiving support in order to keep them informed about pupils, needs and progress and to secure positive family/carer involvement and support.

We are Looking for Someone Who:

• Is a qualified HLTA with proven experience in supporting learners with additional needs
• Has strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Is confident in leading provision and working collaboratively with professionals and families
• Is flexible, proactive, and resilient
• Shares our values of inclusion, empathy, and high expectations for all

We can offer:

• High quality, ongoing professional development as part of the Castle Phoenix Multi-Academy Trust
• A supportive, friendly and hardworking staff team.
• A range of benefits which includes cycle to work, free parking, the local government pension scheme and an employee discount scheme, generous holiday entitlement and a commitment to staff wellbeing and recognition initiatives through our wellbeing committee and people strategy.

We are proud to be part of Castle Phoenix Trust. This facilitates an opportunity to play to your strengths and provide excellent collaboration between colleagues and leaders, access to effective CPD and the chance to develop professionally. The Trust is committed to invest in and develop all staff and, most importantly, bring about the best possible outcomes for our students who deserve the very best. Our Trust values are really important to all of us and include Respect to All, From All, Innovation and Collaboration.

Visits and applications: The Headteacher, Gillian Deery, would be delighted to meet you and talk about the opportunity. To arrange a visit, please email Karen Capell.

Closing date: Friday 14 November 2025 at 09:00am

Interviews: W/C 24 November 2025

If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date for applications, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.

Please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and young people and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance.

Potters Green Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.