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  • Start date details

    ASAP

  • Closing date

    11 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    19 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subjects

Special Education Needs (SEN), Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant

Working pattern

Part time, full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£24,404.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Actually salary for 29hours and 39 weeks per year is £16,503. raising to £17,415

Grade 4 Learning Support Assistant job summary

Grade 4 Learning Support Assistant

We wish to appoint a highly motivated candidate to join our Learning Support Department

The appointed candidate will be expected to support students in the classroom enabling effective learning to take place, building independence and enthusiastically reducing barriers to learning. Occasionally you will work with specified students on a one-to-one basis and at other times you may work with small groups or support a whole class. There is an expectation that as part of the team you will fully immerse yourself within the team and provide help as and when it is needed.

Grade 4 starting scale £24,404 raising to £25,183 , actually salary for 29hours and 39 weeks per year is £16,503. raising to £17,415.

Part time hours also considered, please state this on your application statement.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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About Weaverham High School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1165 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Our vision is clear, we want Weaverham High School to be a vibrant, thriving and successful school where every member of our community feels valued, safe and supported to ensure they surpass their potential. We celebrate uniqueness and see individuals. We understand that our pupils have hopes and dreams, challenges and barriers and it is our privilege to celebrate their worth and their potential. We want every child to enjoy their own journey of discovery, acquire a thirst for knowledge, creativity and imagination and develop a love for their learning. We want pupils to leave our school not just with qualifications showing their academic success, but also with the capacity to think clearly and deeply, a desire to act with integrity and to show kindness and empathy to others, and with the character and leadership experience they need to thrive in the world. We will work tirelessly to ensure individual barriers are overcome so pupils are challenged and supported in equal measure. Our desire is to nurture talent, ability and ambition with energy, creativity, determination, relentless kindness and high expectations. When we combine such a desire with our ethos of Safe.Ready.Respect you will thrive in our care. 

We have a clear and ambitious vision for school improvement that is woven into the 6 strands that define the Weaverham offer. This offer is underpinned by an’ Ethic Of Excellence’ 5, where the following principles guide our strategy to ensure we are the best we can be:

Study examples of excellence

Build a culture of critique (be kind, be specific, be helpful/listen, reflect, review)

Require multiple revisions

Provide opportunities for public presentation

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