Learning Support Assistant
This job expired on 6 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
6 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,879.00 - £26,961.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary will reflect working pattern of 34.5 hours per week/39 weeks per year
Learning Support Assistant job summary
We are looking to appoint a creative, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join the SEND department. The successful candidate would be expected to have the knowledge and skills to support students with a variety of specific needs, including the delivery of targeted intervention outside of the classroom. You will be suitably qualified with experience of working with children in one of the four areas of SEND, and reporting to the Assistant Principal/SENDCO.
The successful candidate must have:-
- Experience of working in an educational provision and ideally relevant qualifications in Learning Support.
- A calm, understanding and friendly personality.
- The ability to manage behaviour and help students focus on any given task, encouraging students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
- The willingness to work flexibly and constructively as part of a team, providing day to day classroom support to the children and assisting with student behaviour as and if required in a supportive manner.
- The ability to establish good relationships with students, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.
- The capability to work with teachers and the SENDCo to ensure progress and development.
- Applicants must have a GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent qualification.
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the process and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.
About The Aylesbury Vale Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1816 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Aylesbury Vale Academy website (opens in new tab)
Thank you for expressing your interest in the post of Teacher of IT. This is a school where we aim to go beyond the expected to ensure that students' life chances are enhanced.
We are proud of our non-selective, fully inclusive status and believe that children and young people, regardless of their background, ability or circumstances can thrive and succeed here. That is why we place respect, aspiration and resilience at the heart of everything we do.
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