3 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    7 March 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    27 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant
  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Part time (Can be done as a job share): 14.40 hours / 2 Days a week (flexible) / 40 weeks

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Scale 4 £29,346 to £30,630 pro rata, actual £10,670.66 to £11,137.54

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job Share based on the criteria below:

**If one job share partner resigns or leaves the role for any reason, the employer reserves the right to review the job share arrangement. This may result in the position being offered as a full-time role to the remaining partner or advertised externally as either a full-time or job share position. Any decision will be based on business needs and operational requirements.

We are an outstanding special school for children and young people with autism. We are a thriving school with a dedicated staff team who work hard to ensure our pupils are supported to achieve their full potential. Community values and partnership are at the heart of what we do and we are all immensely proud to be part of this successful school.

We are looking to appoint a Learning Support Assistants who want to be part of our vision and join our expanding team. Staff may work across the school within our primary department or one of our two secondary departments which cater for pupils who are working at early pre-key stage standards through to those working at Entry Levels and GCSE.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated staff who have an outstanding track record and are ready for an exciting new challenge. We are a strong learning community that strives to make what we offer to our staff, pupils and families the best it can be. If you share these values, then we want you to join our team!




What the school offers its staff

We are committed to the development of our staff and provide a pathway for career progression such as training towards scale 5 posts, HLTA posts, our aspiring teacher programme and routes into the teacher training apprenticeship.

The successful candidates will make an important contribution to the school ethos. Their role will include supporting pupils on a daily basis, supporting small learning groups, working with staff to ensure an inclusive approach and working collaboratively to support the learning needs of pupils on the autistic spectrum.

The successful candidate will have:

  • Some experience of working with pupils with additional needs including autism
  • A flexible and proactive approach to supporting pupils
  • Ability to communicate well with pupils, teachers and adults
  • Completion, or the readiness to complete, the LSA induction programme
  • Some understanding of the issues relating to child development and inclusion
  • A commitment to safeguarding children.

Flexible working opportunities

Flexible working options will be cons

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About The Grove

School type
Free School, ages 5 to 19
School size
128 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 19
Ofsted report
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School website
The Grove website

The Grove is a brand new special school for young people with autism, opened in September 2018. As our school moves into its second year, we transfer to our newly refurbished site near Turnpike Lane and expand our intake of pupils.

We are opening, in September, two new KS3 classes for 8 academically able autistic pupils. We will provide an alternative to mainstream education for these youngsters who, for many reasons, have not been successful in the mainstream setting.
This provision will expand to include KS2 and KS4 pupils reaching a capacity of 16-20 pupils over two years.

The school, which is currently based on a split site has 45 students on roll with complex autism across primary, secondary and post 16. The addition of a new department will create 4 distinct departments as we grow to full capacity of 104 by 2021, 88 of those places for young people with complex autism between the ages of 5-19 and 16 places for those who are academically able between the ages of 7-16.

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