Atherton High School
Wigan
£11,431 - £12,965 per year
Expiring soon
Salary:
SCP
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 October 2025
Apply by:
15 September 2025
Job overview
The Job:
Atherton High School seek to appoint an HLTA on a part time contract working 15 hours per week during term time.
What does this job do?
* To work under the guidance of teaching/senior staff to supervise and deliver lessons to cover short term absences
* To support pupils to overcome barriers to learning, promoting the inclusion of all pupils by developing their communication skills, supporting them to manage their behaviour, developing independence and social skills and to take responsibility for monitoring/reporting on the impact of class-based interventions.
* Promote good pupil behaviour and deal with conflicts and incidents in line with school policies.
What are the job requirements?
* Child Care/NVQ/ HLTA or other relevant qualification (related to education is desirable i.e.: a degree) at level 4.
* Experience of support work with children in an educational setting.
* Experience of planning, preparing and delivering agreed work, and supporting programmes for individuals or groups of pupils.
* Experience of advancing pupils' learning in a range of classroom settings, including working with whole classes where the assigned teacher is not present
* Knowledge of The National Curriculum and Schemes of Work in Literacy and Numeracy.
* Knowledge of the principles of child development and processing of learning.
About Atherton High School:
'Our curriculum ambition at Atherton High School is to make learning irresistible for all'. We have designed a challenging and ambitious curriculum to provide the best learning opportunities for all our students to aspire and achieve.
Our core values that drive our curriculum are:
Aspiration for all to improve life chances for every student.
Excellence in learning through an ambitious knowledge and vocabulary rich curriculum for all.
Character and personal development to equip all of our students to succeed in life.
At Atherton High School what is taught is coherently planned and sequenced to equip students to succeed in life. Our curriculum supports students from all backgrounds, including those who are disadvantaged, so students can access a high-quality, knowledge-rich curriculum. Our school community believes strongly in providing disadvantaged pupils with a curriculum that enables them to reach the academic standards of their non-disadvantaged peers. Our goal is to bring our young people into the big conversations of subject disciplines, to bring depth to our curriculum, so they can understand the world around them.
About the Education Partnership Trust (EPT):
EPT was established in 2012 as a multi-academy trust and is an approved academy sponsor. Our vision is to create outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities. We benefit from our diverse and unique range of schools which include secondary mainstream, alternative provision and special and have a proven track record of sustained improvement. Our schools are united by a drive to improve opportunities and outcomes for children and young people within a collaborative learning culture.
Our staff are our most valued asset so we continually invest in our colleagues and we believe that all teaching and support staff posts within our schools are key in terms of supporting pupil achievement and improving their life chances. As such we are keen to recruit dedicated and ambitious professionals who will add value to our schools and trust by helping our young people to succeed.
"If you're good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you're the best at what you do, we want you to work for Education Partnership Trust."
Our extensive range of rewards and benefits include:
* Healthcare cash back plan provided free by the trust includes optical, dental, physio, diagnostics, health assessment, NHS prescription charges, hospital cover, discounted gym memberships plus lots more.
* Employee Assistance Programme including, counselling, CBT, and wellbeing initiatives.
* Cycle to Work scheme.
* Access to government pension schemes.
* Free parking.
* Electric Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice).
* Training, mentoring and progression opportunities including our Emerging Leaders programmes.
Trust wide intranet to share knowledge and resources.
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About Atherton High School
Atherton High School
Hamilton Street, Atherton
Manchester
M46 0AY
United Kingdom
Headteachers Welcome
Welcome to Atherton High School. Our school sits at the heart of the community and encompasses the values and strengths of the town's proud history. Atherton High School is part of the Education Partnership Trust (EPT), who are committed to creating outstanding schools which transform learning, lives, and communities.
Our school has a culture built around our values of respect, responsibility, and ambition; these core values underpin all we do. We promote our values through a strong, knowledge rich curriculum, whereby pupils develop depth of understanding across a wide range of subjects, to enable an ambitious education for all learners.
We are blessed with dedicated, talented, and highly qualified staff who expect the highest standards and academic effort from all our pupils. We encourage our pupils to take responsibility for their actions, decisions, and their future education and in doing so, we are providing an education for life. We believe every pupil is an individual that can achieve well; this is their responsibility, but we will support them every step of the way
We are proud of our pupils and proud of our school. We expect pupils to demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour so that everyone can learn, free from disruption or barriers. We want all our pupils to feel safe and to develop into caring, responsible, and confident young people. Pupils will be given a wealth of opportunities to experience culture beyond their experience so that they may develop holistically.
Support for each other is a key component of any thriving community. We are proud to serve our local community. Our facilities are accessed by local clubs and organisations to help deliver important extracurricular opportunities to develop pupils beyond school. We are also proud of the many pupils who enrich local community groups and offer a great deal to the wider community as a result. We are committed to working closely with our pupils, families, partner schools and the wider community to contribute positively to the local area and ensure the best possible outcomes for the young people of Atherton.
Atherton High is a highly successful 11 – 16 school and over the past three years has achieved the following:
* Judged as 'Good' in all categories of the Ofsted framework in January 2024.
* Outcomes category move from 'well below average' to 'average' and the most improved outcomes in Wigan authority.
* Established as the 'school of choice' in the local area, oversubscribed in every year group and waiting lists across all cohorts.
I am incredibly proud to be Headteacher of Atherton High School and would be delighted to welcome you to see our school in action.
Leanne Turner
Headteacher
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