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Learning Support Assistant- Additional Needs

Bovingdon Primary Academy, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP3 0HL

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• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  25 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  9 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,737.00 - £22,737.00 Annually (FTE)

Learning Support Assistant- Additional Needs job summary

We are looking for a patient and caring Learning Support Assistant to join our strong and supportive team, and to work closely with children who have additional needs.

We have a vacancy for 32.5 hours a week, term time only.

We are a good school held at the heart of our village community, and part of Aspire Academies Trust, an established and collaborative Multi Academy Trust (MAT) which includes Hammond Academy, Broadfield Academy (Hemel Hempstead) and The Grove Academy, Knutsford Primary (Watford) and Bedmond Academy (Bedmond).

At Bovingdon Primary Academy, we pride ourselves on a team ethos, promoting the highest standards of learning and achievement for all of our children. We work together to promote a lifelong love for learning. Everything we do is centred around the children and their right to be encouraged, to achieve, to enjoy learning and to succeed in whatever they choose.

Our broad and balanced curriculum is built on three core values:

Belonging:

Respecting individuality and embracing diversity within our community.

Possibilities:

Providing limitless opportunities and developing curious minds.

Achievement:

Encouraging personal success and preparing children for future life

CORE PURPOSE

• To provide additional support to pupils with additional needs and to support the teaching staff in order to ensure high quality learning and teaching which enables all pupils to make good progress

ESSENTIAL TASKS

• To supervise and provide individual support to pupils with identified additional needs
• To assist and support teaching staff in the planning and delivery of the curriculum to all pupils

• To provide assistance with pupil welfare whenever necessary

• To promote learning by developing and maintaining effective relationships with pupils

• To provide clerical / administrative support when needed

• To help teaching staff prepare / clear classrooms and assist with the display of pupils’ work

• To liaise with parents and carers, under the direction of the class teacher

• To assist with the development and implementation of individual education plans and personal care programmes

• To deliver and evaluate programmes of work that meet teaching and learning objectives to individuals or groups, within an agreed system of supervision, planning and delivery

• To attend and participate in team meetings as required

• To participate in performance management and professional development as appropriate

• To have an understanding of Special Educational Needs

  The ability to learn and use a range of strategies to deal with classroom and individual behaviour
• To carry out all duties with due regard to the academy’s policies

• To perform any other duties as may be reasonably required by the Headteacher

What are we looking for?

• Someone who can respond calmly and constructively when dealing with students with SEN
  
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work well as part of our staff team
• Someone who is organised and takes initiative
• A commitment to ongoing professional development
• Someone who will contribute to the wider life of the school

• What can we offer you?

• a welcoming and supportive environment with colleagues and leaders who care about your wellbeing
• access to career development across the expanding Trust, for those who want it, with financial support in attaining relevant qualifications
• the collaborative approach of Aspire Academies Trust, who work in partnership and allow us to reap the benefits of shared knowledge and good practice
• guidance and support from an experienced team at our academy, and from other academies and experts within the MAT
  Visits to Bovingdon Primary Academy are warmly welcomed. Please call 01442 406545 to make an appointment.
  
  The Aspire Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. Our interviews will always include relevant questions relating to child protection and/or safeguarding. The successful applicant will be required to undertake vetting checks including a DBS check.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Bovingdon Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 400 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Bovingdon Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bovingdon-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

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