High Level Teaching Assistant

32.50 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 3.30pm, term time plus one week

Woodlands Primary and Nursery School are looking to appoint a HLTA to start asap. We are looking for an experienced, organised, capable, intuitive, and enthusiastic HLTA to work as a valuable part of our school team providing, PPA cover and curriculum support across school.

The successful candidate will:

• Have sound literacy and numeracy skills.

• Hold the relevant HLTA qualification and have experience either in Early Years & Foundation Stage / Key Stage 1 or 2.

• Have knowledge of Read Write Inc. or other phonic programmes.

• Be creative and committed to making learning interesting and fun!

• Inspire trust, instil confidence, and embrace challenges, in order to raise pupil attainment.

• Be able to work as part of a successful, hardworking, dedicated team. Have had experience of shared planning and assessment to enable the interpretation of data to support target setting and pupil tracking.

• Have a good sense of humour.

• Be flexible and able to adapt to a change in circumstances without prior notice.

• Show an understanding of a restorative behaviour approach.

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a friendly, supportive school, committed to continuing professional development.

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

Alternatively, contact Vanessa Bradley on 01952 386072 or email: vanessa.bradley@taw.org.uk., If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 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

01952 380000

Location

Telford & Wrekin Council

Darby House

Lawn Central

Telford

Shropshire

TF3 4JA

United Kingdom