Learning Support Assistant
Buckminster Primary School, Grantham, Leicestershire, NG33 5RZThis job expired on 1 March 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
8 April 2024
Closing date
1 March 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 February 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £23,118 -£23,505. Salary level 5, spine point range 7 to 8
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Are you looking for a rewarding role that will allow you to make a difference by helping to give young people a positive start in life?
Then come and work for us at Buckminster Primary School as a Learning Support Assistant in our Early Years Foundation Stage and Year 1 class.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and enthusiastic individual to support the development of pupils in their first years at Buckminster Primary school as a Learning Support Assistant in our EYFS/Yr1 class. We are looking for someone to join our team and help move our village school to be a beacon of success in the current educational landscape.
The role is for 32.5hrs a week, fixed term for 12 months.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be NVQ Level 3 qualified (or equivalent)
- Have experience in a EYFS classroom environment supporting teaching and learning.
- Have experience of supporting the emotional needs of children
- Have the motivation and passion for being part of a successful school team
- Have good literacy and numeracy skills qualified to Level 2
- Have the ability to contribute to the progression of learning
Applications
If you would like to discuss this post or arrange a visit to the school please contact the office 01476 860315 or email Office@buckminster.leics.sch.uk
Please send the completed application to Julia.orridge@buckminster.leics.sch.uk
Safeguarding Statement:
Buckminster Primary School and Community Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Application deadline – Friday 1st March
The school reserves the right to close applications early
Interviews – Monday 4th March
All roles are subject to full pre-employment safeguarding checks, including an Enhanced DBS with Barred List check and a 6-month probationary period.
Buckminster School
School Lane
Buckminster
Grantham
Leicestershire
NG33 5RZ
What the school offers its staff
Why work at Buckminster Primary School?
- We have keen, enthusiastic, happy children who want to learn.
- Every child really does matter.
- We celebrate both our diversity and our inclusion.
- Our parents are supportive, we work successfully in partnership and together we make a difference.
- Our staff are our most valuable resource and we are committed to developing them to be the best they can be.
- We are about to join the Mowbray Education Trust (MET) which is a multi-academy trust currently educating around 2,500 children from the age of 2 to 16 in the town of Melton Mowbray and surrounding villages in the Borough of Melton.
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.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Buckminster Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 51 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Buckminster Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Office@buckminster.leics.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01476860315
Buckminster Primary School is a small, rural school in Leicestershire for children aged four plus to eleven years.
We also have an Pre-school for children aged three to four years.
Arranging a visit to Buckminster Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Office@buckminster.leics.sch.uk.
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