Learning Support Assistant - Newbridge Upper School

Newbridge School, Romford, Essex, RM6 4TR

7 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  31 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,852.00 - £21,764.00 Annually (Actual)

Learning Support Assistant - Newbridge Upper School job summary

30 hours per week, term time only (44.46 weeks)

Part time opportunities also considered

OUTL4, (£20852 - £21764 actual salary)

Do you want to join an outstanding Trust and want to be part of a team that is on an exciting journey? Astrum Multi Academy Trust is a highly respected trust formed in 2017 catering for pupils with a range of Complex Special Educational Needs and disabilities. Newbridge School is a three times outstanding and Nursery World award winning, forward thinking, highly specialised day school for children and young people aged 2 -19 years old. Newbridge School is across two sites, Lower and Upper School.

We are seeking to appoint LSAs for Newbridge Upper School to work with our pupils aged 11-19. You must be professional, dedicated and prepared to have a lot of fun in the workplace. Laughter is something you can expect to engage in for a large part of your working day. Our schools are all based across the London Borough of Redbridge and have great transport links from London and beyond.

We are seeking to appoint highly motivated and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistants to be part of our schools who have:

• A fun-loving attitude that makes every pupil feel valued as playing and interacting with the learners is essential
• A high level of multitasking is essential - this is a busy hardworking environment
• A calm and sensitive approach
• A willingness to learn and develop your own skills and abilities to best support our pupils
• Resilience- as there are times when things are a challenge both mentally and physically.
• Have NVQ2 in Childcare or equivalent qualification
• Finally, you must be prepared to feel special and important to many children and young people and their families. There is simply no other job quite like it.

We are dedicated to providing a range of induction and continuing professional development opportunities to the successful candidate and look forward to hearing from applicants with suitable skills and experience.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact the Head of School on 0208 590 7272.

For further information about the role, please visit the school website at www.astrum-mat.org

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrum Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and anyone applying to work at the school is expected to share this commitment.

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About Newbridge School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 175 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Newbridge School website (opens in new tab)
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We are a three times outstanding split site special school academy catering for children and young people between the ages of two and nineteen years who have a complex learning difficulty, often accompanied by additional special educational needs, which may include;

Physical disabilities

Sensory impairments

Autistic Spectrum disorders

Associated behaviour

SEMH

Medical needs

We are part of the Astrum Multi Academy Trust with two school sites, which are within one mile of each other. Lower School is for pupils in Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 and Upper School for students in Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and 16-19.

Pupils transfer from Gresham Drive to Barley Lane Campus at the end of Key Stage 2 and are supported to do this through a well-planned transition programme.

Please feel free to contact us if you would like to find out more about our work or request paper copies of some of the information.

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