Learning Support Assistant – Level 3
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 1BW7 days remaining to apply
Closing date
16 March 2025 at 4pm
Date listed
28 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,187.60 - £23,290.10 Annually (Actual) OAT Grade 4, SCP 11 - 14 (£27,269 - 28,624 FTE)
Learning Support Assistant – Level 3 job summary
Job Title: Learning Support Assistant – Level 3
Responsible to: Director of SEND
Salary Scale and Point: Level 4, Point 11-14
Contracted Hours: Term Time only, 35 hours
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy is an exciting and dynamic place to work. We are an oversubscribed secondary academy with over 1400 students on roll at Key Stages 3-5. Our core drivers of Outcomes, Values and Choices are at the heart of our daily actions and interactions and we pride ourselves on building strong relationships based on mutual respect, at all levels.
We are looking to recruit a SEND Practitioner – Level 3 to:
- To liaise with SENDCO to identify students requiring targeted support through the Learning Support Base.
- To liaise with SENDCO and ensure an appropriate targeted support programme is in place to meet the needs of identified students including 1:1 and small group work where appropriate.
- To deliver, monitor and track targeted support accordingly, feedback to relevant members of staff, parents/ carers, students and external agencies where appropriate.
- To liaise with SENDCO and LSAs to ensure Provision Map is updated accordingly as part of the Assess Plan Do Review model for targeted support.
- To liaise with SENDCO and lead on MLD and Co-ordinate appropriate screening tests such as the SNAP Learning Difficulties Assessments and LUCID EXACT to inform support and provide a snapshot of need, following the Assess Plan Do Review model ensuring students are reassessed to monitor the impact of interventions over time.
- To liaise with the SENDCO and SLT Link for Reading to identify and support students using relevant reading programmes to improve students reading skills.
- To liaise with the SENDCO and teaching staff to gather appropriate evidence and ensure the appropriate reading interventions is in place.
- To ensure reading data is tracked for students participating in reading intervention programmes.
As part of your wider duties and responsibilities, you are required to promote and actively support the Academy’s responsibilities towards safeguarding.
Our new colleague will also benefit from being part of Ormiston Academies Trust. Our vision is to create a school system where every child thrives, regardless of background. Our people are at the heart of our approach – they are our greatest asset.
We exist to provide the best learning opportunities every day, in every school for every child. It is the people and teams in our Trust who make this a reality and ensure we have the greatest impact. If you join us at Ormiston, whatever your role, your work will have purpose and meaning
Ormiston, where every member of staff enjoys…
- The opportunity to build on the legacy of those who came before – being part of one of the longest standing Trusts, created with the sole purpose of enabling children and young people to thrive
- Working for a Trust nationally recognised for its impact on disadvantaged children – a rewarding, stimulating career where staff are challenged to be the best they can be, for the pupils we are proud to serve
- Being part of a team and community where you belong – being part of a well-resourced and ambitious network of experts and professionals that work at the heart of communities
- A supportive environment to grow your career – an extensive professional development programme, alongside flexible working arrangements and generous benefits
Please see the attached job description for further details.
The Deadline for applications is 4pm on Sunday 16th March 2025.
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Ormiston Academies Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Flexible working opportunities will be considered.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, qualifications, online searches, prohibition check, two references and enhanced DBS check including Children’s Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
The academy’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy can be found here: Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy
Commitment to safeguarding
The academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The academy’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy can be found on the academy website.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1390 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy website
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy is an exciting and dynamic place to work. We are an oversubscribed secondary academy with over 1400 students on roll at Key Stages 3-5. Our core drivers of Outcomes, Values and Choices are at the heart of our daily actions and interactions and we pride ourselves on building strong relationships based on mutual respect, at all levels.
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