Learning Support Assistant
Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 2DUThis job expired on 20 June 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
20 June 2022 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 May 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 30 hours per week, term-time only (Monday - Friday, 6 hours per day) Hours: 8.45am – 3.45pm, with one hour unpaid for lunch
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 13,230
Learning Support Assistant job summary
We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.
The Governing Body of this highly successful, partially selective, mixed school invites applications for the post of Learning Support Assistant. We seek a highly motivated person to work with students with Special Educational Needs, joining our professional and friendly team. The successful candidate will provide support in and out of class across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
In 2019, 96% of all students secured five or more Grades 9-4 or equivalent at GCSE, and 84% of A level entries were graded A*- B. SEN student performance reflects this high achievement and in 2019, 77% of GCSE grades for SEN students were in the 9-5 bracket.
The school is situated on an attractive 35-acre site in the Green Belt, has excellent facilities and is committed to an extensive programme of staff development. Central London is easily reached by rail from Potters Bar and the school is close to motorway links.
The Governing Body is committed to admitting the children of staff in line with our admissions procedures.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Please take time to read our Safer Recruitment and Safeguarding and Child Protection policies available in the vacancy section of our website.
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About Dame Alice Owen's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1449 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Dame Alice Owen's School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
Dame Alice Owen’s School is a mixed, partially selective secondary school with over 1,440 registered pupils and a vibrant and highly successful sixth form. Our school was founded 400 years ago by Dame Alice Owen, a remarkable philanthropist with an unusually modern vision for education. She established the first school in Islington and as demand outstripped space, it moved to its current setting in the Hertfordshire countryside. Because of its roots and its close and important relationship with the Worshipful Company of Brewers, there are 20 places each year for 11 year old students from Islington. It also offers 65 places to the highest scoring applicants who sit the entrance exam each year and a further 10 places for the most talented or able musicians who apply for a place in Year 7. The remainder of the places in an annual cohort of 200 go to siblings, local pupils on the basis of proximity to the school and to those with priority need.
It is this combination of students and its truly outstanding record of achievement and added value that makes our school such a special place. It is oversubscribed by 5 applicants per place every year. Our dedicated staff, parents’ association, governing body and school (staff and student) leaders constantly appraise and re-appraise the various aspects of school life, learning and achievement so we are never complacent. Our school faces the usual challenges of all educational establishments in the public sector, and ensuring that their impact is felt least by the students is a key objective.
We were delighted to be recognised as The Sunday Times Regional School of the Decade in November 2020; securing a place at Owen’s has been described as “winning the lottery” in the Good School Guide and “the golden ticket” in Tatler. Our school benefits from some of the most able students in the country. Many of our school leavers from Year 13 have offers from top universities to choose from, including on average 20 places at Oxbridge each year.
Our Foundress left a number of fields in the then village of Islington to the care of the Worshipful Company of Brewers which now generate over one million pounds of additional income for the school annually, to support the school and especially the Sports Department. This creates a very special ethos and fosters the very positive staff working environment. The students and staff benefit from a number of traditions including Beer Money, staff awards and Visitation.
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