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**ACTUAL SALARY**
£22,284- £24,173(Trainee)
£24,575- £27,594(Qualified HLTA)
We offer:
-Full pension
-Private health benefits scheme
-10 Term-time 'wellbeing days' tagged onto beginning / ends of terms for your own use
-Annual pay rises (since we are independent of National School pay scales)
-Stability and job security
-Extremely generous 13 INSET days provided per year
-Supportive, empathic, professional team to work with
-Therapeutic approach to pupil behaviour and SEND provision
-Small school, maximising professional nurturing of children in accordance with updated Psychological research
-Substantial non-contact time each week
-Additional time for staff members' own individual CPD programme
-Protected lunch break each day in our quiet, staff retreat area
-24/7 Wellbeing support from the Employee Assistance Programme (including free face to face counselling and supervision sessions if desired)
-Generous budgets for resources for subject delivery, each child has a personal ICT and SEND budget
-Schemes of work and resources provided
-Staff 'thank you' events throughout the year to show our appreciation to you
-Refreshments provided throughout every day
-We are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted!
Attendance Support Officer and Higher-Level Teaching Assistant - HLTA (dual role)
Hours: 36.5 hours per week (daily unpaid 30 mins lunch break)
Mondays 8.30 - 5.30, Tuesdays to Fridays 8.30 - 4.00
5 days per week, term time only
Required September 2025
Are you passionate about making a real difference to the lives of young people with SEND?
Are you a skilled educator or support professional ready to step into a role that combines classroom support with vital family and attendance work?
At Clarity Independent School, we're seeking a dedicated and empathicAttendance Support Officerand HLTA to join our small, specialist team. This unique, full-time term-time role would ideally suit an experienced teacher seeking to step away from full-time classroom teaching into a flexible, highly relational position that combines family support with in-class involvement. It blends two key areas:
1. Attendance Support Officer:
You'll be responsible for the day-to-day monitoring of pupil attendance, engaging directly with parents and carers to address barriers, offering mentoring and practical support, and liaising closely with safeguarding and SEND staff. You'll take a trauma-informed approach, with strong pastoral instincts and a clear understanding of how SEND and family circumstances impact school attendance.
2. HLTA in-class support:
You'll provide in-class support in the mornings following attendance support work, working with pupils with high-functioning autism, SEMH and complex needs - helping to differentiate work and maintain therapeutic engagement. In the afternoons, you'll lead 1:1 or small group sessions linked to student interests, such as ASDAN or Unit Award Scheme activities.
We are looking for a positive, flexible, compassionate person to join our friendly team at this independent special school for 13 pupils, soon expanding to 18, which opened in September 2019. Pupils are aged between 6 and 17 years of age, main cohort usually between 10 and 17 years.
Together as a staff team, you will be required to transport and accompany children to local activities. Ownership and use of a car full time, as well as a full driving license, is therefore essential.
Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to making their application, although please note, we will shortlist and interview as soon as applications are received rather than waiting for the closing date; therefore, we would encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible!
If you would like a tour, please contact the Headteacher to arrange this; admin@clarity.essex.sch.uk.
The school is committed to safeguarding its pupils and as such, a DBS check and online checks, such as social media checks, will be conducted, along with references sought prior to appointment.
Information about the School
Clarity Independent School is a small special needs school for pupils with complex profiles of learning and SEND. We take pupils aged between 6 and 17 years and all pupils are referred to the school by the Statutory Assessment team of several Local Authorities around the Essex and surrounding areas. We have 13 places.