Exams Officer/Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Job Locations UK-Worcestershire-Kidderminster
Job ID
2025-5634

Overview and Responsibilities

Exams Officer/Higher Level Teaching Assistant– Aurora Wilden View

 

Location: Torton, Kidderminster

Contract Type: Permanent, Term time only

Hours: 40 hours per week

Hourly Rate: £14.77 - £16.13 per hour 

Annual Salary: £26,391.04 - £28,821.08 actual salary

Closing Date: Thursday 10th April

 

The Aurora Group

 

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

 

About Aurora Wilden View

 

Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!

Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.

 

The role:

 

As our Exams Officer, you will manage the school examination systems including importing, exporting and accuracy checking, in accordance with school deadlines. You will be responsible for managing the effective and efficient administration of internal and external examination in accordance with the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) regulations (on behalf of the JCQ member awarding bodies ) and/or awarding body rules for examination administration in a consistent and secure fashion, thereby helping to maintain the integrity of the assessment process.

 

The role of exams officer requires actions and duties at particular times and dates. The HLTA role will fit around these requirements. 

 

The purpose of the Higher Level Teaching Assistant is to support the Teacher with all elements of the day to day running of the class and to teach whole classes, groups and individual lessons in consultation with the class Teacher on a regular basis across a range of classes.

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

 

  • Successful recent experience working with children of relevant age in a learning environment.
  • Level 3 (or equivalent) award in Support work in schools or an equivalent is desirable.
  • Possess good Literacy and Numeracy skills – equivalent to at least Basic Skills Level 2/GCSE ‘C’ grade in English & Maths.
  • Recent training in relevant learning strategies, e.g. Literacy/Numeracy.
  • Ability to use own initiative and work independently
  • Ability to work calmly under pressure.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

 

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

  • Full training and continued support 
  • Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
  • Free lunch during your working day
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme
  • Car lease scheme 
  • Bike to work scheme  
  • Free parking   
  • Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

 

Apply/Enquiries 

 

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact  adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

 

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

 

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

 

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

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