Hazelwood Schools

Higher Level Teaching Assistant

 Salary Scale: £26,858 - £31,117 pa inc (Scale 5-6) - pay award pending

  Scale 6 available if the candidate holds the HLTA qualification or equivalent.

 Hours: 35½ hours per week x 39 weeks per year

  Ideal hours: Monday (8:30am-4:30pm), Tuesday–Friday 8:30am – 4:00pm (with ½ hour for lunch each day)

  Full time

 Contract: Fixed Term or Permanent available depending on qualifications or skills                    

Start Date: September 2025

Do you want to support our children and their families to make a real, positive difference to their lives?

Hazelwood Schools are seeking to recruit an optimistic, enthusiastic and highly skilled Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our successful, vibrant, diverse school. You will need to be a problem solver who is able to work creatively in a variety of ways to help support children’s progress. The role is a flexible one, with no two days the same, which may see you supporting children with additional and high needs, working as whole class support or covering classes across the whole school.

We are a friendly, over-subscribed 3-form entry community school, with a large Nursery, that is creative, inclusive and fully committed to achievement for all. As an integral member of our staff at Hazelwood Schools, you will be part of an incredible team of practitioners, all working towards the school vision of ‘nurturing responsible citizens to achieve educational excellence by inspiring awe and wonder through a real, relevant, immersive and purposeful curriculum’. We hope you will want to join us on our journey...

The school is willing to support exceptional candidates through the HLTA qualification within the first year of appointment with a review of salary once the qualification is obtained.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an excellent, imaginative part of the teaching team with the ability to ensure all children make impressive progress;
• Be able to contribute to teachers’ planning and preparation of lessons at various stages of the planning cycle including resources;
• Relish providing cover for whole classes when a teacher is unavailable;
• Have a passion for learning and be happy to work in the ever-evolving primary environment;
• Have good knowledge of the Primary National Curriculum and SEND;
• Have demonstrated that they can develop and enhance learning opportunities and experience for children; supporting their academic, social, physical, intellectual, creative and emotional development;
• Have very good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work positively and flexibly in our busy team;
• Have good knowledge of the needs of all children and how to support them;
• Have a commitment to safeguarding children;
• Be pre-emptive and pro-active, as well as being able to show flexibility and deal with change at short notice;
• Be able to support and promote our vision and values.

In return, we can offer:

• Enthusiastic, well behaved, friendly children with a love of learning;
• A strong and ambitious leadership team with a clear sense of strategic direction;
• Supportive, motivated colleagues with a “teamwork” ethic;
• A creative and inclusive school with a ‘can do’ ethos where success is recognised;
• Well organised and thorough planning, utilising a range of schema to support teachers’ delivery of the National Curriculum;
• An opportunity to be creative, innovate and take risks;
• Supportive parents and governors;
• Opportunities for training to further develop the role as appropriate

Visits to the school are strongly recommended and warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office on 020 8886 3216 or email office@hazelwood.enfield.sch.uk to arrange a tour with a member of the leadership team.

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Closing date: Thursday 5^th June at 9am
Interview: Wednesday 11^th or Thursday 12^th June   
We may appoint before the closing date for this advertisement. Early application is advised.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will undergo full DBS checks. Hazelwood Schools is an equal opportunities employer. All schools in Enfield are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and anyone applying to work in our schools is expected to share this commitment. We reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any time.

Please note CVs are not accepted.