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Learning Support Assistant

The Grove Academy, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD25 9RH

This job expired on 23 February 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  March 2024

• Closing date

  23 February 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 October 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,737.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) Fringe Allowance - £988 per annum (FTE)

Learning Support Assistant job summary

About this Role:

We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant to join our dedicated and friendly staff team to support pupils within Early Years and our Learning Zone. The post will be offered on a fixed term contract in the first instance to 19th July 2024, working 28.75 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only.

The School:

The Grove is a vibrant school with a strong ethos and a highly committed staff team. We have high aspirations for our pupils and enjoy providing exciting and stimulating learning opportunities for them. We are developing our plans and provision for the future with even greater ambition.

The Person:

We are looking for candidates who:

Enjoy workingwith children and are interested in their development

Have goodknowledge and skills in literacy and numeracy

Will work well aspart of a team, working effectively with children, staff and parents

Are flexible andwilling to take on different challenges and are proactive in their practice inorder to seek out the best ways to engage and enthuse young children

Are creative andresourceful

Have enthusiasmand are willing to develop their practice

Prior experience in working with children either professionally or on avoluntary basis is essential. You will be well supported and appropriatetraining will be provided as required.

Why join us?

We can offer you:

An excellentenvironment in which to successfully develop your career

The guidance andsupport of an experienced Principal, Assistant Principal and staff teams

The benefits ofworking collaboratively with colleagues

An investment inyour CPD and opportunities across the Aspire Academy Trust

Our Multi Academy Trust was formed in September 2014, and incorporatesHammond, Bovingdon, Bedmond, Broadfield, Knutsford and The GroveAcademies, along with a well-established Teaching School.

Aspire offers:

Anexciting opportunity to be part of an expanding organisation with highaspirations

Theopportunity to truly mould and grow alongside our planned organisational growth

A stronglearning environment, evidenced by our learning culture and our teaching school

Theopportunity to help drive the Trust, its employees and its practices towardsfuture excellence

Collaborationof good practice across the Trust schools

Have ateaching school as part of the Trust offering excellent training opportunities

Theability to progress with the Trust schools to leadership posts

Free mealoffered daily to all Trust staff

Equal Opportunities:

The Aspire Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. Our interviews will always include relevant questions relating to child protection and/or safeguarding. A satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) with a Children’s Barred List Check is required as a condition of employment. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted on shortlisted candidates to identify anything that may need further exploration with candidates. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Safeguarding statement:

The Aspire Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. Our interviews will always include relevant questions relating to child protection and/or safeguarding. A satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) with a Children’s Barred List Check is required as a condition of employment. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted on shortlisted candidates to identify anything that may need further exploration with candidates. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Interviews will be confirmed. For the right candidate we may interview before the closing date.

Closing date for applications: 23rd February 2024

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.

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About The Grove Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 507 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Grove Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-grove-academy

Our Academy is a three-form entry Primary school, with Nursery. We are part of the Aspire Academies Trust, and are active members of the West Herts Teaching Schools Partnership, meaning we have access to exceptional training and career development opportunities. We have a stunning environment for learning and teaching, with large grounds. We offer full day care for children, with Breakfast and After School Clubs on site. Our school is well resourced and we have a strong ethos of team work. Our children are lively and eager to learn.

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