Higher Level Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 22 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,217.80 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 January 2026 |
| Location: | Dumfries, DG1 2DD |
| Company: | The Cambian Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22474 |
Summary
Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Netherlea School
£24,217.80 per annum
37.5 hours per week
Netherlea School seeks to appoint a caring and enthusiastic HLTA. Our school provides education to young people aged 8 -18 years with SEMH difficulties who mainly live in our residential homes. This is a challenging yet rewarding role where you can flourish within a team focussed on making a positive difference to our young people's lives.
We offer a high degree of differentiation and support within very small teaching groups. This allows all our young people to make good progress, often overcoming previous negative experiences of education.
Essential
- Experience of working in a challenging environment and understanding the challenges that face young people with ACEs.
- Willingness to promote and support our ethos, values and aims.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
Desirable
- You will ideally have experience working with pupils with additional support needs / special educational needs.
- Good sense of humour.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an improving school and help further develop the quality of education on offer to our young people.
This post requires references prior to interview. If shortlisted you will be notified of further details. This post is considered Regulated Work with Children, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, 2007. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with children.
Successful applicants will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to confirmation of employment being made by Caretech. For further information on the PVG Scheme please visit https://www.mygov.scot/organisations/disclosure-scotland/.
CareTech is an equal opportunities employer and will invite disabled applicants to contact us to identify any additional support that they may require throughout the recruitment process.
Due to the volume of applications, if you do not receive an invitation to interview within 14 working days, then consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. By applying for this role, you are consenting to the submission of your details for this purpose only. Any data processed will be used for recruitment purposes within CareTech only and will not be retained by CareTech for any longer than 6 months