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Learning Support Assistant Apprentice
Q3 Academy Tipton, Tipton, West Midlands, DY4 7NR10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
October
Closing date
16 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 31.25 hours a week
Contract type
- Fixed term - To be discussed
Pay scale
- App1 £11,667 - App6 £23,500 (dependant on age and experience)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant to join our fantastic team of dedicated, hard-working colleagues, who contribute to a wonderful culture of work, supporting students with additional needs.
If you are determined to make a difference to the life chances of young people by raising standards, expectations and achievement we would like to hear from you.
Role Overview:
- The Learning Support Assistant will be part of a dedicated team working to support students with additional needs, specifically those with speech, language, communication, social, and emotional difficulties.
- The role involves supporting both individual and group work, assisting with the use of resources including IT, and helping students access the national curriculum.
- Responsibilities also include monitoring and recording student progress, supervising students on school trips, and providing care and welfare support when needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support students in accordance with their Education, Health, and Care Plans.
- Deliver pre-planned work under a teacher's direction.
- Assist in assessing and recording student progress.
- Supervise students during arrival, departure, and break times.
- Work collaboratively with teachers, SENCo, and parents/carers.
- Attend planning meetings and training sessions.
- Participate in the preparation of resources and identify what is needed.
What the school offers its staff
Q3 Academy Tipton is an ambitious and rapidly improving Academy, fully committed to raising achievement for students, developing and retaining high quality staff and curriculum innovation. Our Academy's success is underpinned by a relentless focus on raising standards, developing the whole child and improving the quality of provision in every area.
Please apply via The Mercian Trust Recruitment Portal. CV's Will not be accepted.
Application Close Date: 16th September 2024.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
Please also note that if you are shortlisted for the role, we may conduct an online search as part of our due diligence on the shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which may indicate that you are unsuitable to work with children, and that we may want to explore with you at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
All post holders are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service Check (DBS) and satisfactory employment references, as well as identification and qualification checks which will be required before commencing duties.
All appointments are subject to two satisfactory references and online search.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Q3 Academy Tipton
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1587 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Q3 Academy Tipton website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- bonnie.burns@merciantrust.org.uk
Q3 Tipton has high expectations for all students and is one of nine schools in the Mercian Academy Trust. We embed the ethos of the Trust: “To live life to the full in pursuit of that which is good, right and true” and are passionate about social equality within our community. “Pupils understand expectations and appreciate the positive environment. Teachers treat pupils as individuals, and pupils welcome this. Pupils feel confident to ‘be themselves’ in this inclusive community” (Ofsted, 2022).
We are a large inclusive and diverse 11 – 19 school. Our students come from many backgrounds, speak different languages and follow different faiths. Students are encouraged to join our advocate groups: anti-racism, anti-sexism, pro-LGBTQIA+ and inter-faith. We are fully committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We are proud that our staff body reflects the diversity of our student community including our middle and senior leaders.
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