Learning Support Assistant
Huntcliff School, Saltburn By the Sea, North Yorkshire, TS12 1HJ10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
21 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours a week, Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until at least October 2025 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Actual salary
- £17,922 - £18,207
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate would be expected to have the knowledge and skills to support students with a variety of specific needs (academic, physical and behavioural) and would be expected to have full involvement with the wider aspects of school life and the local community.
The successful candidate must have:
- Experience of working in an educational provision and ideally relevant qualifications in Learning Support.
- A calm, understanding and friendly personality.
- The ability to manage behaviour and help students focus on any given task, encouraging students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
- A professional, nurturing and resilient approach.
- Commitment and dependability within the workplace with ability to use your own initiative.
- An understanding of the National Curriculum expectations at KS3 and 4.
- The confidence to address conflict and challenging behaviour, once trained.
- The willingness to work flexibly and constructively as part of a team, providing day to day classroom support to the children and assisting with student behaviour as and if required in a supportive manner.
- The ability to establish good relationships with students, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.
- The ability to help plan lessons by preparing materials and resources.
- The capability to work with Teachers and the SENDCo to ensure progress and development.
What the school offers its staff
Huntcliff School is a popular school sharing a site with Saltburn Primary School on a joint learning campus. We wish to appoint a suitably qualified Learning Support Assistant to a very busy, successful team. At this time the school has 5 Learning Support Assistants who together with the Inclusion Manager and SENDCo work hard to support students with additional needs.
We have:
- A positive and caring ethos and working atmosphere.
- Friendly children, eager to learn and achieve.
- A committed, enthusiastic and supportive staff team.
- Excellent support from the Governing Body, the staff and parents.
- Opportunities for career development.
We seek to appoint a suitably qualified Level 2 Teaching Assistant – with experience of working with children who have cognition and learning difficulties ages 11 to 16, reporting to the Assistant Headteacher: SENDCo.
We are a newly merged Trust Spark Education Trust which currently consists of 11 Primary Schools and 4 secondary schools. The Spark Education Trust can offer you a professional challenge and a rewarding opportunity, working with collaborative schools that are passionate about the progress and development of every student.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Huntcliff School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 530 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Huntcliff School website
- Email address
- vacancies@sparkeducation.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01287 621010
Huntcliff School is a ‘Good’ school, and was recognised by Ofsted in June 2023 as having an ambitious curriculum for all, alongside excellent pastoral care.
We share a site and some facilities with Saltburn Primary School, serving the community of Saltburn and the surrounding areas. We have established a culture of mutual respect within our inclusive learning environment, and we strive to inspire excellence; in terms of academic achievement, personal development, and the individual talents of every student.
We deliver an ambitious curriculum and have high expectations for all, irrespective of their starting point.
Arranging a visit to Huntcliff School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@sparkeducation.org.uk.
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