Higher Level Teaching Assistant

**Are you ready to inspire the next generation while ensuring a smooth and productive classroom environment?**

**Join our committed team of professionals at Wroughton Academies**

**Job Title**:HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant)

**Location**:Norfolk

**Salary**:Scale F NJC points 12 - 17

£22,224 - £24,108pa actual (£27,711-£30,060pa fte)

**Start date**:Soon as possible

**Contract type**: Permanent

**Working Pattern**: Part-time - TT+1 wk

**About our School**:
At Wroughton Academies, our mission is clear: 'Through the highest expectations, we ensure that children have the knowledge, understanding and skills to be confident and successful.' This mission, created collaboratively by all staff at Wroughton Infant and Junior Academies, underpins everything we do. We believe that the culture at Wroughton is a key ingredient in ensuring children achieve excellence. Our approach to education encompasses:

- Academic Excellence: Delivering a challenging curriculum that fosters critical thinking and intellectual curiosity.
- Emotional Intelligence: Cultivating a supportive environment where children develop resilience and self-awareness.
- Physical Wellbeing: Promoting healthy lifestyles through physical education and nutritional guidance.
- Creative Expression: Encouraging artistic and musical talents to flourish.
- Social Competence: Developing strong interpersonal skills and a sense of community responsibility.

**About the role and you**:

- To support the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of
- This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or for whole classes.
- Monitoring pupils and assessing whole classes under an agreed system of
- Undertakes the job description of a Teaching Assistant at NVQ 3 level but to a higher level of expertise and experience, able to undertake or contribute to the development of strategies and policies and able to work with greater freedom and initiative. Can deliver whole class learning on a short term basis to release a class teacher for PPA or other non
- contact time. Main additional responsibilities are set out below.

**Requirements**:

- Excellent numeracy/literacy skills/GCSE (or equivalent for Maths and English).
- NVQ Level 3 in working as a teaching assistant or equivalent
- Meet Higher Level Teaching Assistant standards or equivalent qualification or experience;
- Specialist skills/training in curriculum or learning area, e.g. bilingual, sign language, ICT;
- Can work at NVQ 4 level

**About Creative Education Trust**:
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14,500 children and young people. We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.

**CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development**:
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.

**Next Steps**

**Application Closing Date: 23 February 2025**

**Interview Date: W/C 3 March 2025**

**Essential Information**:
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £22,224.00-£24,108.00 per year

Expected hours: 34.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person