HLTA with pastoral responsibilities

Are you looking for a school position where you can really make a positive difference to children’s lives? Where children love learning and diversity is celebrated? Where a dedicated staff team shares a positive ethos and everyone is valued and cared for?

The appointed candidate will:

• work with groups of children, identified as needing additional pastoral care.
• support teachers in identifying and implementing strategies that will help children to self-regulate and access learning, including reviewing behaviour related targets as required.
• contribute to the development and delivery of programmes which assist children and young people to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others, encourage enhanced motivation, self-esteem and educational achievement.
• Work with individuals or small groups of children on specific aspects of need through a range of strategies and structured interventions.
• Help identify personal, community, family and school based issues which are having an adverse effect on individual children and young people.
• work closely alongside our Learning Mentor to engage with outside agencies and families to support children in and beyond school.
• Teach whole classes or groups of children, as required, particularly to cover absence or release time.

In addition, the successful candidate will:

• be patient and kind
• understand the needs of young children and work actively to develop positive relationships with them and their families
• be curious, not judgemental
• be a positive role model
• be a team player.

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