Higher Level Teaching Assistant

NJC Grade E
Actual wage £25,049 to £27,652
(pay award pending)
35 hours per week x 40 weeks
Closing date 21st June 2026
Your Responsibilities
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Live our mission and values every day
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Promote safeguarding policies and procedures to protect students and maintain a culture in which students are protected and achieve the best outcomes
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Support learning by planning, implementing and evaluating learning, adjusting activities and resources to enable all students to achieve well
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Supervise and deliver learning to groups or individual students, deliver learning or provide intervention in and outside the classroom area
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Support students access to learning utilising appropriate strategies and resources
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Provide comprehensive assessments of pupils to determine those in need of particular help.
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Assist with the supervision of students during break, lunchtimes and after school, deploying others to ensure a positive and safe environment
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Take a lead role in managing and delivering pastoral support to pupils directing others to ensure student welfare and personal care is of the highest standard
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Take a lead role in the development and implementation of appropriate behaviour management and attendance strategies.
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Role model and support colleagues to promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students recognising and responding to individual needs
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Support the invigilation of assessments or exams
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Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers
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Undertake tasks, including administrational activities as delegated
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Deliver great management for those you manage
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Provide an agreed system of supervision to manage systems/policies/procedures for pastoral support, mentoring, behaviour, exclusions and attendance
Role Critieria
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Directly line manages others within their service
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Deliver great management (as defined by TWT’s habits for great managers) for others within their service
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Establish the best course of action using a range of recognised procedures
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Identify the need, assess the situation and initiate action, providing comprehensive guidance, advice and support.
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Undertake work where there is a wide range of choices, where advice is not normally available and/or decisions where policy, procedures and working standards provide only
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general guidelines
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Make decisions which have significant implications for the service or have a significant effect on employees or other individuals.
Work maybe subject interruption but the program of tasks will not be subject to significant
change.
