Role: Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Location: South Devon and surrounding areas
Hours: Flexible, term time only
About Us
Long-Term Teachers is proud to partner several outstanding special educational needs (SEN) provisions in South Devon and the surrounding areas. We are currently seeking qualified, experienced and passionate HLTA’s to provide essential support to our schools. While we focus on long-term and permanent positions, we also offer flexible supply work to suit your needs.
Why work with us?
- Personalised support: From your first contact, we provide tailored guidance to help you succeed. Your consultant will regularly check in to discuss your availability and preferences
- Established relationships: We have built strong relationships with our schools, ensuring we match you with schools that align with your personality and experience.
- Career progression: Explore long-term and permanent opportunities to further your career in education should you choose
Responsibilities
- Deliver pre-planned lessons that are prepared by the class teacher in their absence
- Demonstrate a genuine passion for working with young people, especially those with special educational needs
- Engage and inspire students in their learning journey.
- Build strong, positive relationships with students, staff, and parents/carers.
- Adapt teaching approaches to meet the diverse needs of students.
- Apply a sound understanding of special educational needs and employ effective strategies to support young people.
- Bring previous experience working in education, particularly in SEN settings.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of SEN and proven strategies to support a wide range of needs. You must be an excellent communicator, able to work collaboratively within a team. Patience, empathy, and a genuine passion for supporting young people are essential qualities for success in this role.
If you're looking to make a real impact in the lives of students with special educational needs, we'd love to hear from you!
Working With Long-term Teachers
We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.
LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.
Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.
We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.
In Addition You Will Receive
- Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities
- Permanent job roles
- Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process
- Working to Agency Workers Regulations
- Interview preparation, advice and support
- Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay