Henleaze Schools – Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Part-time Full time (8:30-3:30 M-F plus 1 hour staff meeting)
Salary - scale points 17-21 (BG9)
Term Time plus in-service days
Fixed Term for 1 year until 31st August 2026
Start Date: 01 September 2025
About Us
Cathedral Schools Trust (CST) is a family of schools committed to inspiring learning both in and beyond the classroom. With a strong focus on music and the creative arts, we support every student and staff member in reaching their full potential. If you’re looking for a Trust that values creativity, growth, and meaningful learning, CST could be the perfect place for you.
We invite you to join our team at Henleaze Junior School, where we pride ourselves on being a welcoming and supportive place to work. Our nurturing ethos begins with the child’s very first experiences of school, ensuring every child feels safe, valued, and supported to reach their potential. We are highly committed to inclusion and ambitious for all children. We are set in a spacious, green site in the heart of our local community with easy access to the city centre, offering a range of enrichment opportunities to support our broad curriculum.
We benefit from being a campus with separate Infant and Junior Schools, allowing staff to develop phase specialisms, with opportunities for working across the whole Primary age range. To enable you to reach your full potential, a wide range of continuing professional leadership development opportunities will be available to you in addition to the regular, planned collaboration with colleagues within our Trust family.
As part of our dedicated, forward-thinking team, you’ll play a vital role in guiding children through their early education, supporting curiosity, confidence, and developing a love of learning.
Positive relationships are central to our ethos, so we encourage you to visit us to find out more.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an inspirational HLTA to join our committed and supportive team.
If you join us, a typical term in this role would see you involved in:
Work with class teachers to raise the learning and attainment of pupils. Promote pupils’ independence, self-esteem and social inclusion
Give support to pupils, individually or in groups, so they can access the curriculum, take part in learning, and experience a sense of achievement
Take responsibility for whole classes including planning and teaching learning activities (under direction of class teachers)
As well as the chance to join staff or community social events.
About You
We need someone who is positive and aspirational and believes wholeheartedly in our Trust leadership values: Reflective, Collaborative, Creative
You will have a proven track record in:
positive impact on pupil outcomes
working effectively in a team
proactive personal and/or professional development
More information about the Trust, School and Role
To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification via the link.
Informal enquiries and school visits can be made via email via the School Administrator
We can offer you
Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
Henleaze, as well as many of our Trust schools, are easily accessible using public transport. For staff members who drive, we offer free onsite parking.
Flexible working, fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
Visit Dates: 12th and 16th June at 16:15
Please phone to book a visit.
How to apply
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.
Please complete our application form by Midnight on 27th June 22025
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Monday 7th July 2025 at Henleaze Junior School
All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Henleaze Infant School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and two supporting references. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.