Learning Support Assistant
The Appleton School, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 5RN12 days remaining to apply
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.
Commitment to safeguarding
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.
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.
About The Appleton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1602 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Appleton School website (opens in new tab)
About The Appleton School:
At The Appleton School, 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.
The Appleton School is a mixed comprehensive school for students aged 11-18 and is a supportive community with strong values in which every student matters. The Appleton School, recognised as a Good school by Ofsted, 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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