Learning Support Assistant – Literacy x2
Excelsior Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE15 6AF3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, term time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,119 - £26,421 FTE, Actual salary £22,124 - £23,270
What skills and experience we're looking for
Knowledge & Experience
❑ Experience of working successfully as a team member
❑ Experience of a team approach to problem solving
❑ Experience of working with young people in schools or similar setting
❑ Experience of working with parents/careers to support the needs of young people aged 11-16
❑ Experience of developing literacy strategies with pupils
Skills & Key Criteria
❑ A commitment to raising standards for all young people at Excelsior Academy
❑ Ability to motivate and manage young people of all abilities
❑ Ability to communicate effectively with adults and young people through written and verbal communication
❑ Ability to work sympathetically yet purposefully with challenging young people
❑ Ability to take the initiative
❑ An excellent team member
What the school offers its staff
The Trustees are seeking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant within Excelsior Academy Primary, to start as soon as possible.
If you have experience as a Learning Support Assistant or similar role and would like to work in a Primary setting then this could be the role for you. The successful candidates will work collaboratively with teachers in relation to planning, pupil progress and assessment and will also work directly with pupils providing one to one or group support to pupils of all abilities. This includes planned sessions as well as responding to situations as they arise.
Excelsior Academy is an All-Through Academy providing education for students aged 3 – 19, serving the West End of Newcastle. Working at Excelsior, you will play an important role in our continuous drive for further improvement.
The successful candidates will join Laidlaw Schools Trust (a Multi Academy Trust) where all Academies support each other to the benefit of our pupils and their families. Our Academies also enjoy strong support from an experienced LST central team based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Further details and an application pack can be downloaded from the Careers section on the Laidlaw Schools Trust website https://www.laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk/72/vacancies or on the Excelsior Academy website https://excelsior.laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk/.
If you wish to have an informal discussion about this post please contact Excelsior HR exahr@excelsiornewcastle.org.uk
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 Excelsior Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1497 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Excelsior Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- exahr@excelsiornewcastle.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0191 2288400
At the heart of our community we create the highest quality learning experiences in support of the needs and aspirations of each of our learners in our inspiring, safe and welcoming environment to help all our learners achieve and flourish a relevant, purposeful and inclusive education in preparation for life and your future.
At Excelsior Academy we strive to meet the needs and aspirations of all our learners to enable each and every pupil to achieve and flourish so we place ‘the child’ at the heart of all we do.
Excelsior Academy is an ‘all through academy’, made up of three phases; Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form College. Each phase has a family feel, where our pupils feel safe, comfortable and confident to achieve their potential.
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