Learning Support Assistant (Level 1)
Ryburn Valley High School, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX6 1DFThis job expired on 10 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
10 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 Hours per week. Monday to Friday 8:30am - 3:00pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Band C (NJC Points 4-6)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary: Band C (NJC points 4-6) Actual Salary: £16,848 - £17,386
Contract Terms: Permanent, Term-time Only plus 2 days
Hours: 30 hours per week. Monday to Friday 8.30am – 3.00pm
Closing Date: Monday 10th March 2025
Interview: w/c 17th March 2025
Start Date: As soon as your notice allows
Are you a passionate, friendly and dedicated when it comes to providing excellent care and educational support to students with additional needs? Do you recognize yourself as having strong communication skills, patience and understanding? Are you a strong team player who can help to secure outstanding outcomes for all students in a safe, vibrant, and happy school? If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
What will you get in return?
This is a fantastic opportunity to work as part of a passionate and friendly team under the direction and with the support of the SENDCO and Assistant Headteacher. You will also benefit from fantastic support and development opportunities to enable you to do what you do best at this wonderful school. At Ryburn Valley High you’ll find a strong foundation where you can make a real difference to the lives of our children.
What the role involves in a nutshell:
- To provide dedicated 1:1 support for a child / children diagnosed with additional needs who require individual support to support access to learning, as well as being able to nurture the child’s social and emotional needs.
- Responsible for some learning activities within the overall teaching plan to enable access to learning.
- Undertaking moving and handling with designated students.
- To be actively involved in all aspects of school life.
Benefits
- A supportive and forward-thinking Leadership Team
- Automatic enrolment to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
- Free Parking
- An onsite Gym
- Occupational Health
- Eye Tests *DSE/VDU users only
- Home & Technology Purchase Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
If our school sounds like a place in which you could really make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.
For further information, see our job pack below.
HOW TO APPLY
Could we be a good fit for each other? If you’d like a chat about the role, or have any questions, then we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact Carrie Burbidge our Personal Assistant to the Senior Leadership Team via c.burbidge@ryburn.tlt.school
If you’re ready to apply, use the apply button below
SAFER RECRUITMENT
We are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to behave in a way that supports this commitment and are subject to an enhanced DBS check. Please be aware that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. If you are shortlisted for interview, we will undertake an online public search in line with guidance from the Department for Education and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.
What the school offers its staff
see above
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ryburn Valley High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1645 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ryburn Valley High School website
- Email address
- recruitment@tlt.school
School location
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