Teaching Assistant casual HLTA responsibility

In your role as a Teaching Assistant, the working hours will be 27.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year. The start date for these roles is as soon as possible.

As a Teaching Assistant
, you will play a vital role in supporting children’s learning, development, and wellbeing across the school. Working closely with class teachers and other professionals, you will help deliver engaging learning experiences, provide targeted support to individuals and small groups, and promote inclusion, independence, and positive behaviour. The role involves assisting pupils with a range of learning, social, emotional, and physical needs, helping every child to reach their full potential.

You will contribute to the preparation of resources, monitor pupil progress, and build positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues. We are looking for a caring, adaptable, and enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. There is also the possibility for you to undertake some additional hours on a casual basis as a HLTA, this will be discussed in more depth at the interview stage.

As a member of staff within our Trust, you will contribute to a collaborative working environment and play a key role in supporting the learning and development of all pupils.

About EQUA Mead Learning Trust

EQUA Mead Learning Trust is a leading educational institution based in Wiltshire. Dedicated to providing high-quality education to students from diverse backgrounds. Members of staff across EQUA Mead will be committed to improving the life chances of the pupils we educate and ensure we give Every Child, Every Chance. As a growing Trust, currently educating almost 6000 pupils across 22 different schools (pre-school, primary, secondary, and sixth form) we are immensely proud of our staff and endeavour to be an employer of choice.

This is an exciting time as we continue to grow the number of schools and children we support.

As part of our safer recruitment procedures, it is important that references are requested and, wherever possible, obtained before the interview. Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance states that references should be sought before interview wherever possible and should be scrutinised as part of the recruitment process to help ensure that only suitable individuals are appointed to work with children.

This role will involve contact with children, and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed.

We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted.

Our family of like-minded schools collaborate to provide mutual support, share best practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing each school’s distinctive character. We believe all children and young people have the right to a great education and we seek to improve the life chances of all those we serve; it is our mission to give Every Child, Every Chance of success.

Across our Trust, we want our children and young people to be inspired by their learning, and to instil in them a motivation and aspiration to succeed in all they do. Our schools are highly inclusive and we are proud to have high expectations of our children and young people, encouraging and preparing them to do their very best in their learning both within the curriculum and beyond.

High quality teaching is a priority, coupled with strong nurturing support, where adults genuinely care about the wellbeing of the children and young people in their care. It’s our aim to meet the needs of each child…