HLTA Higher Level Teaching Assistant and Early Years Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 02 December 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 December 2025 |
| Location: | Tamworth, Staffordshire, B78 3AD |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d2df4490-d169-463c-8ff4-6794ea6bb7fd |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please see Job Descriptions
What the school offers its staff
Thomas Barnes Primary School is a warm, nurturing and community-driven school where every child is known, valued and supported to thrive.The school offers a caring atmosphere with high expectations, ensuring pupils feel safe, confident and motivated to succeed. Staff work closely as a dedicated team. Pupils are very well behaved.
Working at a small school is very rewarding; the staff work really closely together and get on well. It can also be challenging at times because there are simply not very many of us! As a result, we are looking for someone who is helpful, friendly and flexible.
Staff are proud of the school’s close connection to the local community, and its commitment to helping every child achieve their potential. It is a school where children are happy.
Further details about the role
Daily routine of the successful candidate:
8.30am – Preparation time for HLTA tasks.
8.45am – Reception TA, (a passion for early years education is vital).
12pm – Escorting the pupils to lunchtime then remaining in the hall to support lunctimes for 30 minutes.
1pm – covering teacher release time, (possibility of also leading Forest School, one afternoon a week).
3.25pm – hometime
3.30pm – lead the after-school club until 4.30pm, (optional).
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.
Please see Job Descriptions
What the school offers its staff
Thomas Barnes Primary School is a warm, nurturing and community-driven school where every child is known, valued and supported to thrive.The school offers a caring atmosphere with high expectations, ensuring pupils feel safe, confident and motivated to succeed. Staff work closely as a dedicated team. Pupils are very well behaved.
Working at a small school is very rewarding; the staff work really closely together and get on well. It can also be challenging at times because there are simply not very many of us! As a result, we are looking for someone who is helpful, friendly and flexible.
Staff are proud of the school’s close connection to the local community, and its commitment to helping every child achieve their potential. It is a school where children are happy.
Further details about the role
Daily routine of the successful candidate:
8.30am – Preparation time for HLTA tasks.
8.45am – Reception TA, (a passion for early years education is vital).
12pm – Escorting the pupils to lunchtime then remaining in the hall to support lunctimes for 30 minutes.
1pm – covering teacher release time, (possibility of also leading Forest School, one afternoon a week).
3.25pm – hometime
3.30pm – lead the after-school club until 4.30pm, (optional).
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.