Job Vacancy: Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)

Prospero Teaching are seeking a friendly and confident HLTA to join our client Primary School based in Portsmouth (PO2). Within this role you will be working across all year groups from Pre-School to Year 6. Applicants should be an experienced HLTA or LSA/TA willing to undertake HLTA qualification.

Contract Details:

Location - Portsmouth (PO2)
Position - Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Start date - ASAP
Contract type - Long Term / Permanent
Duration / Likely Duration - Ongoing
Full time/part time - Full Time
Minimum rate of pay - £15 per hour

Requirements:

Experience supporting children's learning and development
Experience with interaction and communication needs
Excellent communication skills with children, colleagues, and parents
Confident in covering PPA across the school, including Pre-School
Flexible in covering classes last minute due to staff absence
Ability to plan support for individual children's needs
Independent, proactive, and initiative-driven
Understanding of confidentiality and safeguarding procedures

Responsibilities:

Supervise whole classes in the teacher's absence
Use specialist skills to support pupils
Work unsupervised during PPA cover and fulfil reasonable requests from teaching staff/SLT
Assist in creating a suitable learning environment
Evaluate and record pupils' responses through observations
Implement curriculum programmes at the whole class level
Manage pupil behaviour and assess progress independently
Apply school, national, and statutory policies in the workplace

To be eligible for this role through Prospero teaching, you must:

Hold right to work in the UK
Hold an enhanced child barred list DBS certificate registered with the online update service or be willing to process a new application
Provide two professional child related references

Prospero Teaching is able to offer the successful candidate:

Free, accredited continued professional development courses including safeguarding and behaviour management
In-house Training and Development Team

If you would like to be considered for this role, please apply with a copy of your up to date CV. Unfortunately, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Prospero Teaching is acting as an employment business/education recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy. The successful candidate will be required to register with Prospero Teaching in order to fill this vacancy.

If you would like to be considered for this role, please apply with a copy of your up-to-date CV to or get in touch on (phone number removed)

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