Level Teaching Assistant

Overview

The Linden Centre is seeking a highly motivated HLTA to join our specialist team this term. The role involves supporting children in KS1-4 who exhibit challenging behaviours, ensuring they can settle effectively into learning.

The Linden Centre supports equal opportunities employment.

The successful applicant will support learning across the school, with a primary focus on primary education. They will own a class, lead lesson delivery, teaching, assessment and nurture activities, support learning in other subjects, and assess students’ learning and social/emotional needs. The role includes delivering interventions, therapeutic workshops, and working collaboratively with other professionals and families.

• Confident ability to teach a small class in a range of National Curriculum subjects.
• Commitment to ongoing professional and personal development.
• Understanding of achievement and inclusion issues for children.
• Working knowledge of policies and practice for vulnerable learners.
• Commitment to equalities and inclusion.
• Knowledge of child protection/safeguarding.
• Effective communication skills with colleagues, in writing and orally.
• Strong interpersonal skills with diverse communities.
• Ability to maintain written assessment records.
• Excellent ICT skills.
• Strong initiative and problem‑solving ability.
• Experience working with and managing children and young people.
• Self‑directed, organised and able to manage time and workload to meet deadlines.
• Team player, able to collaborate with the wider Linden Centre team.
• Capable of leading subject area across the whole school.
• Reliability, punctuality and good timekeeping.

• Competitive pay
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff discounts and salary sacrifice perks
• Free parking and confidential wellbeing support