HLTA

Job Description

Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust

Are seeking to appoint HLTA - Alternative Provision

Fixed Term Contract until 31st August 2020

Based at Thameside Primary School, Manor Road, Grays Essex, RM17 6EF

Required: ASAP

Salary Band 4 (Point 12-20 - depending on experience)

Monday - Friday 8:30am - 3:30pm (30 minutes unpaid lunch) 32.5 hours week, term time only

We are looking to appoint a talented and ambitious HLTA to work within our Alternative Provision who can motivate and challenge pupils in a specialist-learning environment. The successful candidate will have good knowledge of working with vulnerable children and a variety of behavior management strategies to support children with very challenging behaviours.

The successful candidate will

· Have already completed the HLTA qualification or NVQ level 4 or equivalent. (Desirable but not essential)

· Have a recognised competence in English and Maths.

· Understand teaching and learning and who is committed to raising standards.

· Have a positive attitude and who is loyal to our co-operative values.

· Have experience of working; or a passion for working with; children with challenging behaviour and is able to assist and support children who have often found school a challenge

· Have the ability to engage, inspire, motivate and build excellent relationships with children

Main duties will be

· Directly teaching groups and whole classes as 'cover'.

· Securing good progress for children taught.

· Behaviour management

· Maintaining good discipline

· Manage pastoral support plans

Closing date: 20th January 2020

For an application form please visit our website at www.osborne.coop or alternatively email hr@osborne.coop

For more information on the position please contact Abbie Stonehouse, Trust HR assistant at a.stonehouse@osborne.coop or on 01375 648 905

The Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post will require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references.

Information about the School

At Thameside Primary School we provide first-class primary school education for the local community with an exciting curriculum based on raising aspirations, setting high ambition, and pursuing excellence. Our specialist PE department provides high quality sport and extra-curricular activities. Our pupils are confident young people with high self-esteem, grand expectations, and a clear sense of personal responsibility both for themselves and others. Our ethos, in common with the wider Osborne Trust, are based off our co-operative values and shared sense of collective responsibility for supporting each other.