Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Higher Level Teaching Assistant or willing to train to be a HLTA
33.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Closing Date: Monday 11th November 2024
To work under the instruction/direction of the Positive Impact Centre (PIC) to support students with SEMH needs. Work with children and young people who have a range of significant needs associated with social, emotional and mental health difficulties, to include anxiety-based school avoidance, Attachment disorder and challenging behaviour. To undertake specified work with individuals, groups under the direction and supervision of the Deputy PIC manager. To encourage the participation of pupils in the social and academic processes of the school, and enable pupils to become more independent learners. The hours are based on the school day contracted from 8.30am to 3.30pm daily (4.30pm on Wednesday). The type of assistance required is based around social, emotional and mental health support allowing full access to a full mainstream curriculum. Detailed information is provided at the beginning on each term regarding students’ needs and changes to the support timetable.
Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that is does?
In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is:
• Built upon strong values and principles
• Places people at the heart of all that it does
• Heavily over-subscribed
• Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded
• A Behaviour Hub Lead School
• The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools
• GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history
• A school of Character
• An Investors in People Gold School
• An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School
• A Global Equality Collective School
• The home of ResearchED Northampton
• A PKC Curriculum Hub
• An Ofsted ‘Good’ school
The school offers competitive working conditions and packages, including: • Future progression resides at the heart of the school’s ethos • Personalised and bespoke CPD is offered to all staff • Opportunities to attend external CPD courses and visiting other schools are positively encouraged • An enhanced induction programme to support all new staff to the school, with a bespoke package of support for ECT’s. • Westfield Health - Private Health Plan for permanent, salaried employees • On-site car parking • A laptop • A detailed Workload Charters, which sets out the school’s commitment to support all staff with their workload • No emails are sent at weekends nor holidays, we respect as a school the need to rest • Co-planning is a guiding principle upon which our curriculum is built, with the use of workbooks and knowledge organisers across the school • On-site restaurant for staff to use on a daily basis • The lion share of directed meeting time is handed to staff to work on the curriculum • Two faculty away days • 4 traded days (which includes one day off to thank staff for the extra miles that they go) • A priority place for staff children at the school • Face-to-face meetings for all staff with the Principal to discuss your wellbeing, professional development and career aspirations • Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff • Membership of the LGPS Pension Scheme for nonteaching staff For support staff • Generous Holiday entitlement, including bank holidays (or pro-rata of) which increases with service Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application
Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application
Applying: Please complete an application form (we do not accept a CV alone) along with a letter of application to the Principal. Please email the application form and letter to: jobs@thedustonschool.org If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practice and all appointments are subject to satisfactory DBS checks. In addition references will be requested for short listed applicants prior to interview and will form part of the interview process. Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates.