Learning Support Assistant (Level 1)
Scout Road Academy, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 5JR11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
11 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
28 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time, term time: Both full time and part time hours are available, please specify on your application form. Term Time only
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Pay scale
- Band C, NJC Scale Point 4 Actual: £14,463 this is based on the full time 27.5 hour role, part time hours will be pro-rata. (pending April 2024 pay review)
What skills and experience we're looking for
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 the role involves in a nutshell:
- To provide dedicated support for 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.
- With support from the class teacher / SENDCO: To prepare equipment and materials for identified child/children
- To supervise the child/children's work as directed by the class teacher / SENDCO
- To oversee specific educational programmes and activities devised by teachers
What the school offers its staff
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 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 Scout Road Academy you’ll find a strong foundation where you can make a real difference to the lives of our children.
You’ll be joining a school and Trust which is all about putting staff first – with numerous wellbeing initiatives and social events to enjoy each term!
In addition to this you will benefit from:
- A supportive and forward-thinking Leadership Team
- Fabulous children who are polite, enthusiastic and eager to learn
- Supportive and committed Staff, Governors and Parents
- If age appropriate, then you will be enrolled into the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
- Free Parking
- Working as part of a creative and supportive team who want the best for all of our children.
- A workplace that is within walking distance of Mytholmroyd train station and has good transport links.
For further information see our job pack below
If our school sounds like a place in which you could really make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.
HOW TO APPLY
Could we be a good
fit for each other? If you’d like about role, or a chance to visit the school
ahead of making a formal application, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Please contact Sue Yorke/Tess Leigh via Admin@scoutroadacademy.org.uk
If you’re ready to apply, please complete our application form and return it to by recruitment@tlt.school the deadline.
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 2023.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@tlt.school
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Scout Road Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 98 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Scout Road Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@tlt.school
School location
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