Learning Support Assistant

The Vale Academy, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 4QP

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Asap

• Closing date

  2 December 2024 at 8am

• Date listed

  12 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,773.00 - £23,956.00 Annually (FTE) AS 1-2 £23,773-£23,956 FTE

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Learning Support Assistant

The Vale Academy is looking for enthusiastic and proactive Learning Support Assistant to work within our Academy. You will need to be able to support children with a range of needs including autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language difficulties and medical needs. You may need to attend to personal care needs and implement related personal programmes, including hygiene, physical, first aid and medical matters, this will be supported by the school’s intimate care policy. The successful candidate will be supported with appropriate continuous professional development.

This Learning Support Assistant role will be working with a lovely, supportive team.

The Vale Academy is an exceptional primary school that offers a warm, welcoming, and nurturing learning environment for children aged 2-11. We are dedicated to providing an outstanding education to every child. Our lovely students, hardworking teachers, and supportive parents create a community that is committed to excellence in all areas of education.

Key Duties:

Raise student attainment so that all students successfully progress through the school to further and higher education and quality employment.

Support all staff to achieve high standards of teaching and learning.

Place the Academy and its facilities and resources at the heart of the community it serves.

Model the highest professional standards to staff and students in all aspects of the role, maintaining a visible presence around the Academy and leading by example.

Ensure that the personal and social development of students results in responsible and active citizens graduating from the Academy.

In collaboration with others, review the impact of actions taken and respond accordingly.

Play a key role in ensure effective implementation of the school’s safeguarding and equal opportunities policies.

The successful candidate will

Previous experience working with children/young people

Experience of working in an educational setting

Experience of planning and leading small group teaching/interventions desirable

Good knowledge of SEN

Good IT skills (with good knowledge of Microsoft applications e.g. word, excel, etc)

Good literacy and numeracy skills

Excellent communication skills

Team player and the ability to be able to build effective relationships with both colleagues and students

Able to work using initiative

Job Specifics:

Start date: Asap

Salary: AS 1-2 £23,773 - £23,956 FTE

Contract: Fixed Term 1 year, Full time, Term time + inset days 8.45am-3.15pm, 30 mins lunch, 30 hours per week

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safeguarding

We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:

“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

Commitment to safeguarding

Advantage Schools is committed to safeguarding and child protection at every stage of the recruitment process.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About The Vale Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 624 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Vale Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-vale-academy (opens in new tab)

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