Higher Level Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 21 May 2026 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 June 2026 |
| Location: | Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO12 7DD |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | c83baa76-fc33-4751-ba02-e169ac35a553 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Teaching Assistant to join our team as a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA). This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to play a key role in supporting teaching and learning across the school.
You will work across a range of classes and year groups as required, providing the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse mix of teachers and pupils, and engage with different curriculum levels, ensuring that your role remains varied, engaging, and rewarding.
Key Duties
• Support pupils in developing their independence, confidence, and sense of belonging, helping them to thrive both academically and socially.
• Work in partnership with teachers to deliver high-quality learning experiences, taking responsibility for agreed activities within a structured framework of supervision.
• Contribute to pupil progress across a variety of classroom settings, whether working one-to-one, with small groups, or with whole classes during teacher absence (such as PPA time or short-term cover).
• Plan, prepare and deliver learning activities that inspire and engage, while closely monitoring progress. This includes assessing, recording, and reporting on pupils’ achievements, development, and outcomes under the guidance of the class or subject teacher.
• Support effective assessment and planning by monitoring, recording, and reporting on pupil performance and progress, appropriate to the role. This includes providing timely and accurate feedback to the class teacher on pupils’ progress during learning activities.
• Organise and manage an appropriate learning environment and resources.
You will have:
• Higher Level Teaching Assistant status or Qualified Teacher Status
• Significant experience of working with children in an educational setting
• Ability to work successfully in a team
• Able to exercise discretion and judgement
• Confidentiality
• Good written and verbal communication skills
What the school offers its staff
• A school with a renewed focus that puts pastoral and nurture provision at its heart and an aspirational outlook for our children
• Happy, enthusiastic children who are thriving and have a thirst for learning
• Clear and tailored CPD for all staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Our Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Teaching Assistant to join our team as a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA). This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to play a key role in supporting teaching and learning across the school.
You will work across a range of classes and year groups as required, providing the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse mix of teachers and pupils, and engage with different curriculum levels, ensuring that your role remains varied, engaging, and rewarding.
Key Duties
• Support pupils in developing their independence, confidence, and sense of belonging, helping them to thrive both academically and socially.
• Work in partnership with teachers to deliver high-quality learning experiences, taking responsibility for agreed activities within a structured framework of supervision.
• Contribute to pupil progress across a variety of classroom settings, whether working one-to-one, with small groups, or with whole classes during teacher absence (such as PPA time or short-term cover).
• Plan, prepare and deliver learning activities that inspire and engage, while closely monitoring progress. This includes assessing, recording, and reporting on pupils’ achievements, development, and outcomes under the guidance of the class or subject teacher.
• Support effective assessment and planning by monitoring, recording, and reporting on pupil performance and progress, appropriate to the role. This includes providing timely and accurate feedback to the class teacher on pupils’ progress during learning activities.
• Organise and manage an appropriate learning environment and resources.
You will have:
• Higher Level Teaching Assistant status or Qualified Teacher Status
• Significant experience of working with children in an educational setting
• Ability to work successfully in a team
• Able to exercise discretion and judgement
• Confidentiality
• Good written and verbal communication skills
What the school offers its staff
• A school with a renewed focus that puts pastoral and nurture provision at its heart and an aspirational outlook for our children
• Happy, enthusiastic children who are thriving and have a thirst for learning
• Clear and tailored CPD for all staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.