Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) for EYFS

The Shaw Education Trust; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Hallwood Park Primary School is looking for a dedicated Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) for EYFS to support children with additional needs. This role involves leading small group activities and ensuring a high standard of early years education in a nurturing environment. The successful candidate will bring a child-centered approach and contribute to creating a safe and engaging atmosphere for our youngest learners.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Electric Car Scheme

Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan

Discounts via DiscountForTeachers Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with SEND is essential.
• Good understanding of EYFS curriculum and child development is required.
• Creative and reflective approach to early childhood development.

Responsibilities

• Lead small group activities and support individual learning journeys.
• Contribute to planning and deliver high-quality early years education.
• Create a safe, engaging, and inclusive learning environment.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Child-centered approach

Education

HLTA status or equivalent experience

Job description

• Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) for EYFS

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Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) for EYFS

Hallwood Park Primary School is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a dedicated and enthusiastic Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to join our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) team.

Now proudly part of the Shaw Education Trust, Hallwood Park is a small, nurturing school set in beautiful grounds, complete with a pond and allotment. Our youngest learners are curious, joyful, and eager to explore – and we’re committed to providing them with the very best start to their education.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate HLTA to support our EYFS provision. The successful candidate will be working with a very small groups of children with a high-level of additional needs. These children will be in the main EYFS provision but will need enhanced provision and carefully planned activities to ensure that they are meeting their development goals and targets from their personalised learning journeys. Working closely with the EYFS Lead, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality early years education by leading small group activities, contributing to planning, and supporting children’s individual learning journeys. This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is creative, reflective, and deeply committed to early childhood development.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have HLTA status or equivalent experience
• Have experience working with children with SEND
• Bring energy, warmth, and a child-centred approach
• Demonstrate strong communication and teamwork skills
• Have a good understanding of the EYFS curriculum and child development
• Be confident in supporting and delivering planned learning to small groups
• Contribute to creating a safe, engaging, and inclusive environment

This is a rewarding role in a friendly, close-knit school community, supported by the vision and resources of a forward-thinking trust. If you're passionate about shaping young lives and want to make a real impact at the foundation of learning, we would love to hear from you.

We warmly welcome potential applicants to visit the school. Visits can be accommodated during the week of 2nd - 6th June. Please contact the school office to arrange a convenient time.

We are a friendly half-form entry primary school with our own nursery, situated on a large site in a peaceful corner of the Hallwood Park Estate in Runcorn. Visitors to the school often comment on the calm, warm atmosphere around the building and are amazed at how much outdoor space we have!

We aim to create a nurturing school community, where children excel in their achievements and are inspired to continue learning in the future.

Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery nurtures its pupils by:

• Providing a safe, happy school in which pastoral care is given high priority by dedicated staff;
• Expecting and promoting the highest standards of behaviour;
• Giving children an excellent, secure start to their school experience in our Nursery and establishing positive relationships with parents;
• Developing a strong sense of community and pride, with a “family feel” to the school.

Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

We believe that everyone has the potential to be extraordinary!

To this end, our growing number of Primary schools within the trust tirelessly pursue excellence through research-based collaboration and innovation. Our developing, Trust-wide, 3D Primary curriculum and pioneering Digital Strategy is designed to create inspirational, energetic and immersive learning experiences. These enable every child to flourish within a caring, stimulating and purposeful atmosphere; fully prepared for their next stage of life and learning.

We know that at primary school, the quality of teaching affects both children’s social behaviour and intellectual development. This age and stage of learning has a more powerful impact on children’s academic progress than any other educational sector. Home too has a vital part to play! - Recognised through extensive research, it is the importance of early experiences and the powerful combination of home, pre-school and primary school partnerships that set the foundations enabling our amazing children and pupils to succeed.

Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.

Working hours: 32.5 hours per week – Term Time Only plus 5 Inset Days (working 39 weeks)

Hallwood Park Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online checks and criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.

All shortlisted candidates will undergo an online search as part of Trust safer recruitment.

We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date as we review applications on an on-going basis and interviews may be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, therefore, we encourage early applications.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.

We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.

Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.

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