Location
London

Hours
37.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year

Salary
£36,707.14 - £38,419.79 per annum

About the Role
Inspire and transform learning as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant at Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich. You will support local children in a happy, welcoming, and inclusive school environment that values diversity and partnership with families. Our vision, Ambition For All, emphasizes the importance of collaboration between school and home to foster children’s development. The school offers a vibrant learning environment where pupils are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning, grow in confidence, and become independent. Recognized with UNICEF's Rights Respecting School Award in 2017, we provide an exciting curriculum including well-structured lessons, musical instrument learning, use of new technologies, educational visits, and residential trips in Key Stage 2.

As a Higher Level Teaching Assistant, your responsibilities will include planning, preparing, and delivering engaging learning activities for individuals, groups, and classes; monitoring, assessing, and reporting on pupils’ achievement and progress; leading and developing teaching support provision including coordinating, mentoring, and appraising staff; and identifying and addressing barriers to learning through targeted support and intervention. You will support the achievement, wellbeing, and inclusion of all pupils, including those with SEND, EAL, and additional needs, encouraging independence, confidence, and positive learning behaviours.

You will lead phonics assessments, moderation, pupil grouping, and progress tracking, identify pupils requiring additional support, and implement targeted interventions. You will monitor progress towards the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check and support pupils beyond Year 1 as needed. Leading the daily delivery and continuous improvement of the Read Write Inc. programme, you will ensure consistent implementation of phonics teaching routines, expectations, and best practice. Collaboration with teachers, the SENDCo, and pastoral teams to meet individual pupil needs is essential, as is planning, delivering, and reviewing one-to-one tutoring and intervention programmes. You will adapt teaching approaches and resources to support pupils with additional needs.

Experience
- At least two years’ school-based experience as a Teaching Assistant or equivalent
- Experience contributing to and assessing provision for children with a range of needs
- Experience of strategic leadership and implementation
- Successful primary phonics teaching experience, using assessment to improve provision and pupil outcomes

About you
- Good knowledge of a range of learning barriers, including special needs
- Some knowledge of social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Strong knowledge of phonics, early reading, assessment, grouping, intervention, inclusion, and safeguarding
- Ability to use data to improve provision
- Leadership development and RWI training

Qualifications
- GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Maths at Grade C/4 or above
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent