Learning Support Assistant
The Rushmere Park Academy, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1EW13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
26 November 2024 at 8am
Date listed
11 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,773.00 - £24,327.00 Annually (FTE) AS 1-3 £23,773-£24,327 FTE pro rata £19,515-£19,969
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Learning Support Assistant
The Rushmere Park Academy is looking for an experienced, caring, and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our friendly and hardworking team. You will need to be able to support children from across the school with a range of needs, working alongside teachers to deliver our curriculum as well as your own initiative to support the progress of pupils.
The Learning Support Assistant will be working within a driven and thriving staff team to support the learning and progress of all pupils. They must therefore be able to work effectively under instruction from both class teachers and senior leaders at the school. A TA qualification is desirable whilst experience working with children is essential.
We are committed to supporting the range of individual needs within our nursery, mainstream school and specialist resource provision and we therefore seek out adults who value equity and education for all children. This is an ideal opportunity for a candidate who’s passionate about supporting the learning and development of our fantastic young pupils and would like to increase their experience of working in an OFSTED rated ‘good’ school environment that supports pupils with a variety of needs. The successful candidate will receive appropriate, continuous professional development.
Key Duties
Providing support across the curriculum for pupils in class
Delivering planned one-to-one and group interventions
Supporting the development of an engaging learning environment
Promoting the ethos and values of our academy
Actively prioritising the health, safety and wellbeing of all children
Supervising children during break times
The successful candidate will:
Have experience of working with children in an educational setting (essential)
Be a friendly, enthusiastic team player who’s passionate about supporting the learning and development of our fantastic young pupils
Have a TA qualification (desirable)
Be able to work effectively under instruction from class teachers and senior leaders to support the learning of children in school
Have an understanding of safeguarding and its implications within an educational setting(essential)
Be responsible and able to use initiative
Job Specifics:
Start date: Asap or following notice period
Salary: AS 1-3 £23,773-£24,327 FTE. Actual pro rata £19,515-£19,969
Contract: Full time, Permanent, Term time + Inset days,35 hours per week, 8:30am to 4pm Monday to Friday 8:30am-4pm with 30 mins for lunch
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Shared Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and child protection at every stage of the recruitment process.
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 Rushmere Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Rushmere Park Academy website (opens in new tab)
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