Learning Support Assistant

Redland Green School, Bristol, BS6 7EH

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  19 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,672.00 - £22,411.00 Annually (Actual) NJC 8 – 10

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Duties and Responsibilities:

The LSA Key Worker will support the learning of children with SEND by:

• Working collaboratively with teachers to provide direct support to achieve defined progression targets in a child’s EHCP or IEP and in class plans;
• Delivering evidence-based interventions and activities, as directed by an EHCP, to support cognitive and skills development on a 1:1 and/or small group basis;
• As a Key Worker, providing empathetic and sympathetic listening, direct guidance, and the provision of appropriate positive feedback to the pastoral team;
• Supervising and encouraging safe behaviour of individual and groups around the school;
• Adapting and scaffolding work (with teachers) as part of in-class support;
• The Key Worker will work with families and other professionals to support the overall physical, emotional and educational development of children with SEND.

The LSA Key Worker will support the learning environment by:

• Developing pen portraits for their Key Worked children in line with their EHCP plans.
• Follow guidance from the teaching staff to prepare, store, retrieve, sort and display materials, finished work, equipment, topic work plans and/or assignment documents to provide an effective learning environment;
• Promote the required standards of achievement and performance, for individuals and groups within the classroom;
• Support the development of continuous improvement in both personal performances in the job and the work of the team;
• Assist in the development, monitoring, reviewing and progression of children’ learning plans;
• Support access arrangements and assessment processes, recording, keeping and retrieving accurate records and following defined procedures;
• Work in a team to support continuity and consistency in the work of the Learning Support team which achieves the attainment of standards in learning progress by the school required by the Head and Governors, the LA and the Office for Standards in Education [OFSTED].

The LSA Key Worker will provide care and support for children with SEND by:

• Attending to the day to day needs of children, inside and outside the classroom, by provision of personal, social, hygiene, welfare and behaviour support as needed and as directed by the SENDCO;
• Delivering planned intervention to promote the progress of individual children in attaining defined goals;
• Promoting effective pastoral care for individual children and groups, following defined procedures, and liaising with colleagues to create and retrieve accurate records to provide the basis for home/school liaison & contacts with other agencies;
• Reporting concerns about progress, identifying solutions, to the teacher and pastoral team;
• Maintaining regular communications with families;
• Assisting educational and therapeutic professionals in their delivery of specialist support programmes;
• Carrying out specified medical care procedures following direct specific training by a qualified practitioner;
• Assisting with the assessment by the teacher of individual children’s development through observation, creation and retrieval of records, discussion with colleagues and teachers to promote the social, emotional and behavioural standards defined by school and LA policies and procedures.

This job description sets out the key outcomes required. It does not specify in detail the activities required to achieve these outcomes.

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

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About Redland Green School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1651 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Redland Green School website (opens in new tab)
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