Learning Support Assistant
Birkenhead Sixth Form College, Wirral, Merseyside, CH43 8SQThis job expired on 9 October 2024
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 October 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
25 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week, term time only, permanent contract.
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Spine point 03 £22,312 pro rata to £16,351.
What skills and experience we're looking for
Experience
Experience of working with students with Additional Learning Needs and/or Mental Health Issues.
Previous experience as a Teaching Assistant or Learning Support Assistant
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
Flexibility, enthusiasm and the ability to relate well to staff and students
Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with young people
Ability to work as part of a team
Ability to demand high standards from yourself and others
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join the College of the Year and Most Inspirational Sixth Form 2023. A multiple national and regional award-winning institution, the College is a national leader in A Level, BTEC and T Level education and is graded outstanding in all areas by OFSTED. All staff play a vital role in the experience that students have with us and ultimately their success.
The College is committed to its core values of Positivity, Ambition, Resilience and Thoughtfulness, and these values shape everything we do. Our ethos is centred on the scientific evidence that tells us that everyone can achieve success through purposeful hard work as opposed to the talent myth, and as such, the College is in itself an engine for social mobility.
The College currently has a 16 to 19-year-old student population of nearly 1500 and there is high demand for places. The College has invested over £4.5m over the last four years in new buildings and facilities to accommodate the exponentially increasing popularity for students after GCSEs.
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 Birkenhead Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth_form_or_college
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Birkenhead Sixth Form College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hrdept@bsfc.ac.uk
- Phone number
- 01516525575
You will be joining a highly successful, innovative and nationally recognised sixth form college. The College was awarded the UK Sixth Form College of the Year by the TES in 2018 and this followed being graded outstanding in all areas by OFSTED in December 2016. All staff play a vital role in the experience that students have with us and ultimately their success.
The College currently has a 16 to 19-year-old student population of 1450. Demand for places for places at the college is very high and as a result the college has recently expanded with the opening of a 1.7m new state of the art teaching facility in September 2021. A further brand new 3 storey classroom block is opening in April 2023 as part of the college’s expansion project.
In response to the pandemic and disruption to the learning of students the college introduced a new timetable in 2021/2022 to combat the deficits that students have. This includes teaching time increasing by 60 minutes each week we are confident that the 5.5 hours students receive each week is one of, if not the highest in the country. Whilst student teaching time has increased, the new timetable has reduced the overall teaching time for teachers each week. Full time teachers will teach a maximum of 4 classes, 4 times a week and teachers have their own groups, we do not have shared teaching groups at the college.
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