Learning Support Assistant
Sanders Draper, Hornchurch, RM12 6RT13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
9 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
21 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,462.00 Annually (Actual)
Learning Support Assistant job summary
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our very successful SEND department.
You will be working closely with the Director of Inclusion ensuring the students have a positive learning experience and supporting them to achieve their best outcomes. The work will involve providing in class support, delivering interventions and supporting students with their daily needs when required.
Are you able to:
Lead on interventions put into place by the Director of Inclusion
Demonstrate empathy and understanding for students with additional needs
To work as part of a team
Support the learning in a classroom
Take active responsibility for improving standards of behaviour and attitudes to learning
Act as a positive and proactive role model
Key role descriptors:
The Learning Support Assistant (LSA) is a member of a team of practitioners responsible for the education and care of the children in school. The LSA is expected to have gained a NVQ level 2 qualification or is working towards this qualification. The LSA to support students to make expected and above expected levels of progress. To do this the LSA will need to differentiate materials ensuring the students can experience success in their learning as well as being challenged.
The teacher and the LSA work as a team – being ‘partners’ in supporting the students’ access to learning and the whole curriculum and their independence as learners
The LSA works under the direction and control of the Head Teacher and the SENCO. They may be required to work with groups or individuals from a class without the presence of the class teacher and supervise activities and tasks.
The main duties and responsibilities for this role are:
1. Support for students:
a) provide appropriate levels of individual attention, reassurance and help for student(s) needs as identified in Individual Education Plans.
b) support the specific needs of specified students – physical, emotional and/or behavioural
c) where directed, act as an escort on and off school premises under the direction and where appropriate, in the presence of the teacher for the purpose of visits or off site educational provision
d) support student(s) access to the curriculum, their learning in particular lessons and their progress towards specific individual targets
e) ensure that teachers are aware of the specific learning needs of identified students
f) support students in working independently in the company of others by providing Hover Support
g) to deliver as directed by the SENDCo, one-to-one student programmes for interventions such as Literacy and Numeracy, handwriting, speech and language
h) provide information, advice and direction to students about their behaviour within the agreed framework of school policies on discipline and behaviour i) take appropriate action to identify, analyse and minimise any risks to health, safety and security in the immediate working environment
j) Any staff appointed after September 2013 will be expected to provide Intimate Care for students as part of their role and therefore not receive additional payment.
k) Support the students with their use of the toilet
As an employee you will be covered by our excellent well-being support and medical cover programme through the School Advisory Service (SAS).
This includes;
Access 24 hours a day to a GP helpline where you can have a telephone conversation for you and close relatives.
Access to Physiotherapy
Access to a counselling service
Free 12 week Weight Management Programme
Support for stress management
Lifestyle Screening
Relationship Counselling
Long-term condition support - support for you and family members where you or a member of your family is suffering from a long-term condition such as cancer, Multiple Sclerosis or Motor Neurones disease. This list is not exhaustive.
Private Medical Service
Stress Counselling
To discuss this post further or raise any questions please contact Vicky Murphy, Headteachers PA on 01708 443068 or email vmurphy@sandersschool.org.uk
To apply please click Apply here Closing date for applications is Tuesday,14th May 2024 at 9am. Interviews will take place week commencing Tuesday,21st May 2024.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. If you are interested in the role, please submit your application as early as possible.
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 Sanders Draper
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 664 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Sanders Draper website (opens in new tab)
Sanders is part of the Success for All Educational Trust along with Redden Court School and The Royal Liberty School for boys.
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