Learning Support Assistant

Trafalgar School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 9RJ

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 April 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 31 per week/40 weeks per year (term time plus 1 week)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Band 3- £16,961-£17,254 pro rata (£22,737-£23,130 full time equivalent)

What skills and experience we're looking for

This is a very exciting opportunity to join the Inclusion Team at Trafalgar School. You would be working alongside our Head of Centres and team of dedicated Inclusion (Learning Support) Assistants.

The Inclusion Department is an extremely important part of #teamtrafalgar and works extremely hard to ensure that our students are provided with the very best support possible.

To support the learning and wellbeing of our students through appropriate interventions to empower them to be able to raise their own achievement and academic progress.

To deliver interventions to identified students on 1:1 basis or in small groups which support progress.

To support the learning environment of the school by challenging students appropriately, providing mentoring and guidance as required.

To attend planning or review meetings and contribute to the reports for students receiving interventions, as appropriate.

To be able to prioritise own work, show initiative and be flexible in working across all areas of intervention.

To offer specialism in at least 2 of the following areas of intervention provision:

• Learning Needs
• Physical Needs
• Emotional Needs
• Inclusion

What the school offers its staff

Trafalgar School is a vibrant learning community where every member of staff understands the difference that they can make to our students’ outcomes. We expect all staff to be actively involved in the personal development of our young people and to show full commitment to their own and the school’s professional development.

Trafalgar School and its Governing Body are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; and they expect all staff to share this commitment.

Trafalgar School is a beacon school for Relational Practice in the south which means we put the building, maintaining, and restoring of relationships with all members of our community at the heart of everything we do. It is essential that the post holder shares our school ethos which is firmly rooted in this restorative practice approach. We work restoratively with students, families and with each other to maintain the strong community culture and our very strong inclusive ethos.

‘Relationships are highly positive because staff take time to understand and remove barriers to pupils’ learning’.

OFSTED June 2023

Commitment to safeguarding

SAFEGUARDING
Salterns Academy Trust and Trafalgar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Some forms of employment, occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Applying for the job

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk

Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Trafalgar School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 971 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Trafalgar School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk
• Phone number: 02392 693521
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/trafalgar-school (opens in new tab)

Trafalgar School is a vibrant learning community where every member of staff understands the difference that they can make to our students’ outcomes. We expect all staff to be actively involved in the personal development of our young people and to show full commitment to their own and the school’s professional development.
Trafalgar School and its Governing Body are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; and they expect all staff to share this commitment.

Our aim is to provide an outstanding all-round educational experience and we are committed to the success and excellence for all our students. In June 2023 we were inspected by OFSTED and judged to be a strongly ‘good’ school with ‘outstanding’ personal development. We are enjoying the next stage of our journey (to become outstanding in all areas!) and continue to receive incredible feedback about our child centred approach; our leaders share our best practice through extensive outreach work across the city and beyond.

Arranging a visit to Trafalgar School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk.

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