Higher Level Teaching Assistant (Primary)

SR1 (7—11) £20,872 — £22,320 (Actual) (£24,294—£25,979 FTE) (Based on 37 hours per week, 5 days a week, 39 weeks per year) The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Closing Date: midday, Friday 5th July

The Duston School is looking to appoint a Higher Level Teaching Assistant to add additional capacity to the primary phase. Duties and Responsibilities

• To contribute positively to the ethos of the school.

• To work independently and collaboratively to ensure than curriculum planning is effective in enabling high levels of challenge and achievement.

• To teach National Curriculum objectives to individuals, small groups and whole classes as and when required.

• To organise and manage a safe, stimulating learning environment and resources, including displays.

• To evaluate and adjust lessons, as needed, to ensure progression.

• To monitor, assess and report on pupil’s achievement, progress and development.

• To liaise with relevant professionals and provide information on pupils, as appropriate.

• To support children’s social and emotional well-being and report any concerns to the class teacher.

• To manage the behaviour of children within the framework of the school’s behaviour policy.

• To be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

• To supervise individuals and groups of children throughout the day, including supervision in the classroom, playground and dining areas.

• To attend to pupils personal needs and implement personal programmes including: medical needs, physical hygiene and welfare matters with appropriate training/support.

• To escort and supervise pupils on educational trips and out of school activities.

• To be responsible for the preparation, maintenance and control of stocks of materials and resources.

• To provide basic first aid, when needed.

• To be available to cover classes at such times as necessary.

• To fully engage in meetings, training and performance management, as required.

• To maintain good relationships with children and colleagues and work as part of a team.

• To demonstrate and promote equal opportunities and be active in eliminating behaviour and practices which could be discriminatory.

• To use data effectively to monitor the attainment and progress of all groups of children.

• To administer national and school assessments thoroughly and to use the information to improve standards. 

 

Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that it does?

In joining The Duston School you will be joining a school that is:

• Built upon strong values and principles

• Places people at the heart of all that it does

• Heavily over-subscribed

• Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded

• A Behaviour Hub Lead School

• The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools

• GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history

• A school of Character

• An Investors in People Gold School

• An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School

• A Global Equality Collective School

• The home of ResearchED Northampton

• A PKC Curriculum Hub

• An Ofsted ‘Good’ school