Learning Support Assistant
10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
12 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Special Education Needs (SEN), Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,408.00 - £24,795.00 Annually (FTE) 32.5 hours per week (Actual starting pay £18,349.43) or 37 hours per week (Actual starting pay £20,890.12)
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Do you want to be part of a vibrant, diverse school community that offers equity of opportunities to a range of children and young people? Do you want to support children and young people to be valued members of the wider community? Do you want to develop children and young people to be successful in learning and life by developing their independence skills? If the answer to these questions is yes then Dorothy Goodman School could be the place for you.
Salary range: Grade 5 £24,408 to £24,795
(based on experience and expertise/hours worked per week)
32.5 or 37 hours per week available
32.5 hours per week (Actual starting pay £18,349.43)
or 37 hours per week (Actual starting pay £20,890.12)
Term time only (39 weeks includes five days training)
What we need from you:
Positivity
Good communication skills
Ability to work as part of a team and independently
Flexibility
Resilience
Ability to build positive relationships with a range of pupils
What we can offer successful candidates:
Comprehensive induction training that develops skills, knowledge and understanding of a broad range of SEND
An understanding of:
The importance of aspiration for all pupils in education
Advocacy and how to ‘listen to and hear’ young people
Teaching and learning strategies that support academic achievement
Cognition and Learning & Communication and Interaction and strategies to support pupils working at a range of levels
Support from:
Specialised Engagement teams to develop skills to support pupils
External professionals to develop an understanding of learning and meeting the needs of pupils (working with Educational Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Therapeutic services)
Committed teams of staff at all levels across the school who understand the needs of pupils
At our school, individual differences are recognised and respected but are never seen as a barrier to achievement. By adapting the curriculum and teaching methods we ensure that our pupils have every opportunity to succeed both academically and socially. We also work with young people who have significant challenging behaviour and with those who have severe medical needs, and so candidates need to be prepared to adopt a problem-solving approach to the challenges that those young people bring. Our practice is constantly evolving to meet the needs of the school community.
Nurture and respect leading to independence are at the heart of our work and your commitment to our values and ethos as a school are crucial.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to a check being carried out at an Enhanced level by the Disclosure and Barring Service regarding any previous criminal record.
Dorothy Goodman School is seeking to promote the employment of disabled people and will make any adjustments considered reasonable to the above duties under the terms of the Equalities Act 2010 to accommodate a suitable disabled candidate.
Dorothy Goodman School shares a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. Our commitment is underpinned by robust processes and procedures that seek to maximise opportunity, minimise risk and continuously promote a culture that embraces the ethos of safeguarding amongst our workforce.
Commitment to safeguarding
Dorothy Goodman School 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 under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 387 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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Dorothy Goodman School is an all age (from ages 4-19 years) SEN School.
Our children & young people have a wide variety of special educational needs and disabilities including pupils with profound and multiple learning disabilities, severe learning difficulties, moderate difficulties and those with Autism. Some children & young people also have social, emotional and mental health difficulties associated with their learning difficulties.
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