Learning Support Assistant - Highdown School
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8LRThis job expired on 14 August 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
14 August 2022 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 July 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Term time only plus 2 staff training days Part Time - 8.30am to 3.15pm.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £12,878 Per Year
Actual salary
- £12,878 Per Year
Learning Support Assistant - Highdown School job summary
Term time only plus 2 staff training days
Part Time - 8.30am to 3.15pm.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
We require enthusiastic and committed candidates, who have experience working with children, to join our hardworking and successfulteam.
You will need a high level of interpersonal skills, be well motivated and passionate about working alongside young people. You will also have an excellent standard of literacy and numeracy.
Funding is available for further training to obtain Qualified Teacher Status.
Why Highdown School?
• We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
• We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
• Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
For details and an application form visit our websitewww.highdown.reading.sch.uk. Please return your completed application form to Miss Nicci Burns, Headteacher’s PA, by emailhnb@highdown.reading.sch.ukor call 0118 901 5800
Closing date: Sunday 7th August 2022
Interviews: Thursday 18th August 2022
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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.
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About Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1575 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown was awarded academy status in 2010 and was judged to be a good school by Ofsted in April 2015.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a thriving school where all students are challenged to reach excellence every day.
Our most important resource is our staff. Therefore, we aim to create the conditions and culture within the academy that make Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre a rewarding place to work. We are committed to investing in staff professional learning and leadership development, taking action to rationalise workload, promote mental and physical health and wellbeing, and encourage collaboration and peer support.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, teaching and support staff (including temporary and supply staff), governors and volunteers to share this commitment.
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