Behaviour Support Worker

Asquith Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS27 9QY

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  7 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours Term time only + 3 specified INSET days
• Contract type: Fixed term - Fixed term until end of March 2026, with a view to making permanent subject to school budget
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,836.46 (SCP 7) to £20,077.06 (SCP 11) Pro rata
• Pay scale: B3 (SCP 7-11) – pro rata

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint someone who:

• Is committed to inclusion
• Has strong behaviour management skills and follows a positive approach to behaviour management
• Is able to assist the class teacher and other professionals as appropriate in the development of suitable educational activities to support children who are struggling in the classroom environment
• Is a good communicator and able to work well in a team
• Will be a supportive and welcoming presence in the classroom and develop positive working relationships with pupils and parents alike
• Understand how children learn and use their initiative to meet individuals’ needs
• Is patient, able to stay calm, listen, and value children’s views
• Will support the ethos, vision and values of the school, abiding by all policies and procedures.

We are a school that strongly supports Rita Pierson’s theory that “Every Kid Needs A Champion” – we are looking for that champion!

If you would like to apply for this post then please complete an application form – we do not accept CVs or applications from supply agencies. For safer-recruitment purposes, your application form must provide full details of your employment since leaving secondary education, starting with your current or most recent employment first and then by working backwards, including reasons for leaving. Please also include any periods of voluntary work and/or training, providing reasons for any periods not in employment, education or training.

What the school offers its staff

We are seeking to appoint a hardworking and dedicated Behaviour Support Worker to work at our School. This role would be ideal for someone who is able to demonstrate strong skills and successful experience planning for and supporting pupils with behaviour and/or social or emotional needs. Working at Asquith Primary School, the successful candidate would work closely as part of the newly structured Inclusion team. The role will be to support pupils currently on a 1:1 / small group basis across the whole school in the first instance, and will be a first response to challenging incidents.

Commitment to safeguarding

Asquith Primary is wholly committed to ensuring children and young people are fully supported and safe. We are dedicated to the safeguarding of all children and young people whilst promoting their welfare and expect all staff and volunteers to share this responsibility. As part of the recruitment process, an enhanced DBS check is required for the successful candidate, this process is completed by an online third-party company. Positions are subject to two satisfactory references.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@asquithprimary.org

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Asquith Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 399 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Asquith Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@asquithprimary.org
• Phone number: 01133075550
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/asquith-primary-school-leeds (opens in new tab)

We are a large primary school situated on the outskirts of Morley in Leeds.

Arranging a visit to Asquith Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@asquithprimary.org.

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