Location: Acton, London - a five-minute walk from Acton Town tube station.

Contract: Full-time hours, permanent contract, term time only.

Start Date: September 2024 - but an earlier start date may be considered.

Salary: Ark Support Band 6, Points 8 - 19.

Closing date: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and early applications are advised.

Interviews: TBC

The role:  

We are recruiting an exceptional team of staff to support the next stage of development of a genuinely transformational school. We are looking for candidates who are able to demonstrate the highest expectations of student effort and conduct and are able to do so with kindness and warmth.

As an HLTA, you will undertake the duties of a teaching assistant as well as providing specialist support to groups or individual pupils in their learning. You will be supporting teachers in establishing a supportive and nurturing learning environment in which children make good academic progress and you will be instrumental in our mission to provide every student, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life  

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow with the school. They will be supported in their development and preparation for future roles.

We will develop every staff member that joins our team, providing one-to- one support, coaching and mentoring and access to extensive network training.

You will:

•    Share the Ark Soane beliefs, vision and mission and be aligned with the Ark six pillars underpinning it

•    Be committed to Ark’s ethos of high expectations for every student in both academic achievement and personal development

•    Manage behaviour effectively to create a positive, calm and purposeful climate for learning

•    Have the drive, skills and resilient character required to help develop a new school

•    Be reflective about the Academy and committed to securing its continued development

•    Value and support practices driving continued progress across the network of Ark schools

For more information about our school, please visit: www.arksoane.org.

Full information available here HLTA JOB PACK.pdf

To arrange a confidential conversation with the Principal about this role, please contact Zahra Hamdaoui at (HR@arksoane.org) or phone 020 81615579.