Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Status: 26 hours per week, 4 days per week, term-time only
Salary: Inspire Support Band G. FTE salary is on a 4-point scale starting at £30,295.00 to £32,077.00.
Location: Sitwell Junior School
Closing date: 16th November 2023, 12:00pm

Inspire Learning Trust is a Multi Academy Trust based in Rotherham which also includes Oakwood High School, Sitwell Junior School, Thomas Rotherham College and Winterhill School.

The post holder will complement the professional work of Teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under the agreed system of supervision. This will involve planning, preparing, and delivering learning activities for whole classes and monitoring pupils and assessing, recording, and reporting on pupils’ achievement, progress, and development.

There is scope within this role for a 32.5 full-time, term time only contract. We ask that candidates confirm their intentions for full or part-time employment at point of application.

We offer a positive working environment, we care about our learners, and we care about our staff, all of whom know and appreciate that. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of this, contributing to this culture and developing it further.

As a Trust we are truly community based and committed to developing a set of shared values through every aspect of our work. These values are the development of respect, responsibility, resourcefulness, resilience, reflection, risk taking and relationships.

Applicants are required to apply via our online application form which is available on our website: https://www.inspiretrust.uk/vacancies/.
PLEASE NOTE we operate Safer Recruitment and we do not accept CVs or CV attachments, all applicants must complete an application form in full.

Inspire Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, other workers, and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust is an equal opportunities employer and operates a no smoking policy in all its workplaces. We undertake to make any reasonable adjustments to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face.

Our safer recruitment processes include online searches which will be done as part of due diligence checks ahead of interview. Employees will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive checking process including references from current and previous employers, right to work in the UK, an Enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.

Job Description/Person Specification (pdf)