Learning Support Assistant
Barnwood Park School, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 3QUThis job expired on 30 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.00 hours per week (with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break) Monday to Thursday 8.15am – 16.00pm and Friday 8.15am – 15.45pm, Full time, Term Time only plus Inset days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,516 - £24,684 per annum
Pay scale
- NJC Scale Range, Grade 5, SP 11 - 14
What skills and experience we're looking for
You will need:
- Hold at least 5 GCSE’s or equivalent, which must include at least a Grade C/4 in Maths and English
- NVQ 2 and/or equivalent qualification in relevant area
- Evidence of personal commitment to CPD
- Proven successful experience working with or caring for children in any setting
- Basic understanding of child development and learning.
- The ability to work constructively as part of a team, follow line management structures and understand classroom roles and your own position within those responsibilities.
- The ability to take the initiative to support students presenting with a range of SEND
- The ability to work in a flexible way and think ‘outside the box’ in order to co-produce learning plans that support a young person’s resilience
- To show commitment to the SEND team to ensure that it continues to develop strength and expertise across the broad areas of SEND
- To be able to form empathetic relationships with young people and be able to communicate their needs effectively to other professionals
- Commitment to high standards and expectations
- Knowledge of strategies to recognise and reward efforts and achievements along with the ability to encourage students to become resilient, self-reliant and independent learners
- Knowledge of the broad areas of SEND
- Experience of working with children who present with anxiety and other social, emotional and mental health difficulties
- Excellent communication with children and parent/carers.
- Good behaviour management.
- Able to adapt activities to suit the child
- Possess strong interpersonal skills
- Be dependable, able to follow instruction and respond to management directions
- Have a willingness to extend skills through appropriate training
- Having good ICT knowledge
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Barnwood Park School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- Up to 900 pupils
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Barnwood Park School website
- Email address
- hr@barnwoodpark.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01452 530389
Barnwood Park is an 11-16 school situated in the heart of Gloucester. Since June 2024, we have been on an ambitious journey of rapid recruitment, supported by the guidance of the Greenshaw Learning Trust. Officially joining the Trust on January 01, 2025, we are seeking passionate individuals to help s to continue transforming Barnwood Park into one of the highest-performing schools in the country.
At Barnwood Park, we believe there is no limit to what students can achieve under the right conditions. Our mission is to equip every child with the knowledge, skills and confidence to access opportunities at the very best universities, apprenticeships and professions. High standards are non-negotiable at Barnwood Park - whether in work ethic, behaviour or uniform. Step into our school and you'll find disruption-free classrooms, impeccable uniforms, polite and respectful students and warm, energetic teachers.
We celebrate and reward effort and achievement, fostering a sense of pride in our students' work, themselves and their school. Student voie is central to our ethos, empowering every individual to contribute to the vibrant life of the school and develop as responsible, confident members of the community.
Our dedicated staff are committed to inspiring and challenging students through high-quality teaching and learning. With a well balanced curriculum that maximizes opportunities for success, we ensure every child, regardless of their starting point or background, can thrive.
Our team is united by a shared drive to make Barnwood Park the very best it can be. Through teamwork, strategic focus, exceptional professional development and an unwavering committment to excellence, we have made tremendous progress on our improvement journey - and we are just getting started.
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