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Learning Support Assistant

The Appleton School, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 5RN

This job expired on 23 February 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  23 February 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 February 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
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £16,290.00 - £17,074.00 Annually (Actual) Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 3:00pm, 30 Hours per week, Term Time Only, Scale 2&3 Points 3-6

Learning Support Assistant job summary

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Learning Support Assistant (LSA) to join our team. As an LSA, you will play a crucial role in supporting students with diverse learning needs, ensuring they can fully participate in classroom activities and achieve their full potential. This is a rewarding opportunity for someone passionate about education and making a difference in young people's lives. Experience is desirable but a willingness to learn is essential as well as having good numeracy and literacy skills (GCSE A-C Maths and English is required).

Some of the responsibilities include:

• Working with individuals or small groups of children under the direction of teaching staff
• Support pupils with activities which support literacy and numeracy skills
• Support the use of ICT in the classroom and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use
  
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of children with special needs within the classroom ensuring access to lessons and their content through appropriate clarification, explanation and resources
• Promote positive pupil behaviour in line with school policies and help keep pupils on task

For more information please see the attached Applicant Information Pack

We offer our staff an excellent induction programme within a friendly and supportive environment, and are committed to providing high quality professional development. This enables continuous improvement in teaching and learning.

The Appleton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About The Appleton School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1597 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: The Appleton School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-appleton-school

At Harris Academy Benfleet, we value the inclusive history of the school, which stretches back to the establishment of the first comprehensive schools in Britain in the 1960s. This still provides an inspiration for us and sits alongside our absolute commitment to provide the best for our community in the 21st century. Harris Academy Benfleet is a mixed comprehensive school for students aged 11-18 and is a supportive community with strong values in which every student matters. Harris Academy Benfleet delivers an ambitious, inclusive and broad & balanced curriculum, enhanced by extra-curricular activities to help broaden learning experiences. In 2023 our students achieved well above the national average for attainment at GCSE 9-4 and 9-5 grades with English and Maths. We offer our staff an excellent induction programme within a friendly and supportive environment, and are committed to providing high quality professional development. This enables continuous improvement in teaching and learning.

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