Learning Support Assistant
Dunsford Community Academy, Exeter, Devon, EX6 7DDThis job expired on 3 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
20 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): 17.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 31st August 2025 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- NJC Grade C (Torbay)
Hourly rate
- £11,79 - £11.98 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an incredibly rewarding role where you will work alongside a highly passionate team to ensure children are cared for, inspired, and challenged. Our ideal candidate will have a Level 3 qualification; however, it is essential that the successful candidate holds a full and relevant qualification accepted by the Department for Education (DfE). Experience of supporting and nurturing the needs of all pupils, including those with Special Educational Needs would be an advantage, and you will be committed to making a profound difference to the lives of our most disadvantaged children.
Our Trust is dedicated to building an authentic workforce, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience looks a little different to what we’ve identified, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the perfect candidate!
We are looking for someone who is inspired by our Trust mission and can empower our children with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to flourish. We are proud that we are a single organisation with a shared responsibility for all children, and one where you will feel professionally nourished through our extensive development practice and strong wellbeing offer.
What the school offers its staff
Dunsford Community Academy lies within the heart of the local community, just a 25-minute drive from both Exeter and Newton Abbot on the edge of the stunning Dartmoor National Park. As a smaller school there is a real sense of community; we value the incredible relationships we have with our families and aim to ensure that all our children have the best start in life and can flourish in all they do.
We are proud of our rich and vibrant curriculum that stimulates children’s imaginations and creative thinking. We empower children with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to flourish, removing barriers to learning so every child, even the most vulnerable, can achieve their full potential.
Our provision outdoors is exceptional we use it to its fullest advantage with swimming lessons from reception each week during the summer, to Forest school all year round from Nursery. Pupils are proud and excited to play and learn here.
We can offer you:
- The opportunity to make a profound different to children’s lives
- A culture that takes work-life balance extremely seriously for all its colleagues
- The chance to work as part of a collective in a values-led school Trust, a single organisation
- High quality professional development and regular training
- Access to nationally recognised Level 2 and 3 course and apprenticeships
- A strong, proactive wellbeing network across the School Trust
- The potential for future career development
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
- Trust benefit schemes including tech and cycle schemes
- Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
- An impactful People Strategy that enables us to nurture, develop and support our colleagues so that they can provide the very best for our children
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.
About Dunsford Community Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 97 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Dunsford Community Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- people@lapsw.org
- Phone number
- 01626248800
Arranging a visit to Dunsford Community Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email people@lapsw.org.
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