Learning Support Assistant - Maternity Cover
King Edward VI Handsworth School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B21 9AR14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
27 January 2025
Closing date
18 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
2 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 8.35am-3.35pm 32.5 hours per week Monday to Friday Term Time Only
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,119
What skills and experience we're looking for
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our forward looking, ambitious and happy school as a Learning Support Assistant within our forward looking, ambitious and happy school for a 12 month maternity cover. The successful candidate would ideally have experience as a Level 2 or Level 3 Teaching Assistant, or be willing to work towards these qualifications during their first year.
Clear communication and commitment to working with staff, students and parents are essential in order to provide the best learning experiences for our students with SEND both inside and outside the classroom. We are looking for a dynamic colleague who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people. Our students are enthusiastic, well-behaved and have high aspirations. We are looking for a colleague who can offer additional support for those students who need it.
The role involves working with the school’s SENDCo to offer in-class support, leading 1:1 and small group interventions and supporting teaching and learning for students with additional needs. Being able to establish positive, professional and productive relationships as well as a robust understanding of planning, adapting and leading high quality in-class support for students is key to this post.
What the school offers its staff
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our forward looking, ambitious and happy school as a Learning Support Assistant within our forward looking, ambitious and happy school for a 12 month maternity cover. The successful candidate would ideally have experience as a Level 2 or Level 3 Teaching Assistant, or be willing to work towards these qualifications during their first year.
Clear communication and commitment to working with staff, students and parents are essential in order to provide the best learning experiences for our students with SEND both inside and outside the classroom. We are looking for a dynamic colleague who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people. Our students are enthusiastic, well-behaved and have high aspirations. We are looking for a colleague who can offer additional support for those students who need it.
The role involves working with the school’s SENDCo to offer in-class support, leading 1:1 and small group interventions and supporting teaching and learning for students with additional needs. Being able to establish positive, professional and productive relationships as well as a robust understanding of planning, adapting and leading high quality in-class support for students is key to this post.
The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of “making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”.
Our Academy Trust currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and five non selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.
The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham (“the Academy Trust”) was established in 2017 and is made up of the academies outlined above. The academies receive back office central support services including governance, from the Foundation Office (a central support services function), with several staff being seconded from the Foundation to deliver support services to the Academy Trust and the academies themselves.
Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.
We are offering the successful candidate the opportunity to work in a thriving school with passionate and enthusiastic students who are dedicated to their learning and to become part of our committed, supportive and dedicated staff team. This is a fabulous community which is full of character; proud of our history and tradition whilst being forward thinking and creative. Staff and students thrive on extremely positive relationships underpinned by our expectations that everyone in our community should strive to be their best. We are committed to excellent teaching and learning in an environment where students relish the opportunities they are given to master the subjects they are studying, are willing to take risks and enjoy the intellectual challenges this brings. We develop staff and students who have the desire and courage, combined with the emotional, intellectual and practical capacities to change the world in ways that might be great or small but are always for the better. We are a happy and caring school which values and takes pride in diversity and celebrates individuality. We are looking to appoint someone who believes passionately about making a difference to the lives of every student and who does so with integrity, humility and relentless positivity.
If our vision, ethos and ambition match your own philosophy, please download the job description, information for applicants and person specification from our website to find out more about the role and the school and how you can fit with our vision and values. Visits are welcomed and encouraged and can be arranged by contacting the Head’s PA, Mrs S Harvey.
CV’s will not be accepted.
Previous applicants need not apply.
In order to submit an application, please complete the Academy Trust application form including the names and addresses of two referees, to the Headteacher, Mr D Goodwin.
Please also use the statement section of the application form to explain the ways in which your experience to date has helped to prepare you for this role and how you would seek to contribute through this role to our vision and ambition.
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 King Edward VI Handsworth School
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1284 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- vacancy@han.kevibham.org
- Phone number
- 01215542342
King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls is an 11-18 selective girls’ school. We are an academy, a member of the King Edward VI Multi Academy Trust and the King Edward VI Foundation in Birmingham. The school has been situated on Rose Hill Road, Handsworth since 1911. Our facilities are excellent and provide a 21st century learning environment. Our school is built on a pleasant, enclosed campus, close to the centre of Birmingham. The main building was constructed in 1911 and contains some excellent specialist teaching rooms and a beautiful hall. As a school we are committed to offering vibrant extra-curricular activities in which participation is valued and celebrated. We understand that there is far more to education than the learning that takes place in the classroom and there is always an activity available for those who want to get involved. We believe students should take advantage of the opportunities provided; they will meet new friends from other classes and years; and learn a new skill or see a subject in a different light. Our extracurricular timetable changes termly to allow for a wide range of sports, societies and clubs. Many of these groups are led by our Sixth Form students who wish to share their passion for a subject or activity. We have a strong musical tradition with choirs, orchestras and numerous instrumental lessons. Drama flourishes and we have several clubs run as well as our school production and joint ventures with King Edward VI Aston School, King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School and King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy. Teams represent us in all the major sports. A contribution to the life of the School is expected from students and staff alike. Charity fundraising is an integral part of the school year. Students and staff commit themselves with great enthusiasm to a range of original fundraising events. We support a range of causes each year; Comic Relief, Sports Relief, LEPRA, Pink Day and Children in Need. Our biggest events are the annual Race for Life Pink Day held each year and Children in Need week which comprises of a series of form organised fund raising activities. As a result, we raise over £15,000 each year for the organisations we support. Whilst we may be a school steeped in tradition and history, something of which we are fiercely proud, we are also an ambitious, forward-thinking and outward-facing school. From this basis we are able to help our students face and meet the challenges of a fast-paced and ever-changing world.
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