Send Specialist Level Teaching Assistant; Hlta

SEND SPECIALIST HIGHER LEVEL TEACHING ASSISTANT (HLTA)

Grade GRADE 7 (PRO RATA Term Time plus one week).

Salary £32,061 to £36,363 (Full Time Equivalent). Part‑time, term time only on a pro‑rata basis.

Location Ridgewood Community High School, Eastern Avenue, Burnley, Lancashire, BB10 2AT
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Join our team as a SEND Specialist HLTA to support expanding pupil numbers and provide PPA cover across the school. A good understanding of KS1 and KS2 curriculum is essential to support pupils with cognition and learning needs.

• Teach all primary subjects.
• Use themes and topics to create meaningful links across learning.
• Work with the curriculum team to prepare resources and lessons for each class, ensuring learning is meaningful, accessible and ambitious.
• Provide individual support and liaise with class teams to support curriculum planning and implement pupil strategies.

• Essential qualifications and experience as detailed in the full person specification.
• Desirable:
  First Aid Qualification, Medical Training, Price/Team Teach, relevant SEND training such as ELKLAN, Colourful Semantics, etc.

• Supporting pupils with SEND, particularly cognition and learning needs.
• Understanding of curriculum adaptation in English and Maths.
• Experience liaising with class teams to support curriculum planning and individual pupil strategies.

• Work in a specialist Generic Learning Disability school with state‑of‑the‑art facilities.
• Collaborative staff environment focused on pastoral support, wellbeing and personalised provision.

An Equal Opportunities Employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community. The post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Successful candidates will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a disclosure.

25/06/2026 at 12 noon.