St. Hild's Church of England School
Hartlepool
£26,286 - £28,088 per year
Salary:
Band 9 £30,559 - £32,654 per annum (Actual salary £26,286 - £28,088 per annum pro rata) - pay award pending
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
14 September 2025
Apply by:
31 August 2025
Job overview
This role is term time only with plus 5 training days and fixed term to 31st August 2026.
St Hild's Church of England School is seeking to appoint a Cover Supervisor/Senior Teaching Assistant to collaborate with teachers in planning and delivering programmes of teaching and learning activities for classes. The primary focus for this role is to undertake educational activities with individuals, groups or whole classes within a framework agreed with, and under the direction and supervision of, a qualified teacher.
We are looking for a colleague who has:
* Knowledge of ICT applications used to support pupils in the classroom.
* Experience of working with young people, professionals and other agencies.
* Experience of selecting and preparing resources to support learning, including appropriate filing and presentation of pupils work.
* Ability to use language and other communication skills that children can understand and relate to.
* Ability to provide specialist support to pupils with learning, behavioural, communication, social, sensory or physical difficulties.
St Hild's Church of England School is in an exciting phase of its development and has high ambition for its pupils. With a strong Christian ethos we work effectively across the whole community to improve and enrich the lives of children.
We are incredibly proud to be an inclusive school with a higher than average number of children who have additional needs. As a result we prioritise high quality classroom teaching and provide bespoke support where appropriate.
Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East.
In return we offer:
* Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across our trust.
* Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
* National living Wage, meaning everyone at NEAT Academy Trust receives a minimum hourly wage of £12.60 per hour.
* Cycle to work scheme offering savings on a range of bikes and safety equipment via salary sacrifice.
* Access to free eyes tests for DSE users.
* Opportunities for flexible working. Discounts for large national retailers and local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, insurance and much more.
* Membership of the Teachers' Pension Scheme or Local Government Pensions Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
* Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
* Family friendly schemes such as maternity, paternity, shared parental and emergency dependent leave.
Interested? If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification and complete an application form by clicking 'apply now' no later than midnight on Sunday 31st August 2025.
NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.
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About St. Hild's Church of England School
St. Hild's Church of England School
King Oswy Drive
Hartlepool
TS24 9PB
United Kingdom
St Hild's Church of England School, named after Saint Hild of Whitby, the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, is a mixed, 11-16 secondary school located in Hartlepool, County Durham. It has been part of NEAT Academy Trust family of schools since April 2021.
St HIld's aims to serve its local community by providing a high-quality, fully inclusive teaching and learning environment in a Christian context. We work tirelessly to ensure each child enjoys their education and is able to achieve the best they can, both academically and in terms of their personal and social development. "Life in all it's fullness" John 10:10 is our motto an we work hard to make this a reality.
A full range of enrichment and extra-curricular activities include sport, music, community and charity work, drama, dance, environmental work and outdoor pursuits. Pupils can train as Student Librarians and, in Years 10 and 11, as Junior Sports Leaders and House Captains as well as being a School Prefect.
Our recent SIAMS inspection rated us GOOD with EXCELLENT strands in the impact of Collective Worship and the effectiveness of Religious Education.
Acting Headteacher
Sara Crawshaw
Values and vision
As a Christian community, St Hild's' educational offering is based on the values of care, equality, honesty and responsibility.
Students are encouraged to have increasingly high expectations of themselves and are nurtured to develop growth mindsets so that they believe that their intelligence can grow and that effort leads to success. The school offers full support so that they can achieve their academic potential, as well as develop both personally and socially.
Traditional teaching methods are complemented by innovative and creative methods of curriculum delivery. The school takes in loco parentis seriously and makes every effort to make the decisions that parents and carers would make for their own children if they could.
Welcome from the NEAT Academy Trust CEO
St Hild's Church of England School is one of eight schools within NEAT Academy Trust. Set up in 2017 to build on the existing collaboration between the schools, our vision is that:
"We belong to an innovative, sustainable trust working collaboratively with partners to share our vision and values that enables all learners within our influence to be well prepared personally, socially and academically for the next stage of their lives in a changing world."
The development of our workforce is crucial to the success of our young people and joining NEAT will give you access to a wide range of CPD opportunities as you develop your career with us. Having a research school as an integral part of our trust also provides opportunities to work with other schools to use evidence-based programmes and practices and generate original research.
Debi Bailey
CEO
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