Learning Support Assistant
Ormiston Park Academy, South Ockendon, Essex, RM15 4RU16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
31 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,170.00 Annually (Actual) OAT Grade 5, SCP 2 (£24,790 FTE) term time only (39 weeks per year / 35 hours per week)
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Work where it matters most, achieve what matters more.
Be part of a team where passion meets purpose, as we work together where the challenge is greatest to change the lives and build the futures of children and young people.
If so, we eagerly await your application. At Ormiston Park Academy, we are currently seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant (LSA) to join our inclusive and nurturing team. This is a rewarding opportunity to work closely with students with Educational Health Care Plans (EHCPs), helping them to integrate fully into academy life and reach their full potential.
As an LSA, your primary responsibilities will be to:
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Support the learning and development of students with an EHCP
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Run tailored programmes and small group activities to support social and academic progress
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Help implement personalised learning targets in collaboration with teaching staff and the ASCEND team
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Encourage confidence, independence, and positive behaviour
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Facilitate inclusion both in the classroom and around the academy
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Maintain accurate records and contribute to student reviews and reports
This role offers the chance to play a vital part in a student’s educational journey while working within a supportive and experienced SEN department.
To be considered for this opportunity, you will:
- Have a keen interest in supporting students with additional needs
- Be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with students, parents, external agencies and Local Authority.
- Motivate and encourage pupils that you work with.
- Be compassionate, patient and motivated
- Commit to furthering your own professional development through the bespoke opportunities on offer at the Academy.
Ormiston Park Academy is a small but growing and highly aspirational co-educational secondary school based in Aveley, Essex, for students aged 11-19. Our vision of ‘Believe and Achieve’ underpins all aspects of academy life in our impressive, well-resourced building and you will play a vital role in providing the highest quality provision, impacting positively on outcomes for our students, ensuring aspirations become reality.
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
We will offer you:
- Collaborative working within our shared family of schools
- Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Access to an exciting range of employee benefits from our health and wellbeing partner, Vivup
For further details or to arrange a time to visit the Academy contact Sally Spraggon, PA to the Principal and Vice Principal on 01708-865180 or sspraggon@ormistonpark.org.uk.
To apply for the role please submit an application form via the link above. Please note that CVs will not be accepted and all applications are to be returned electronically.
Ormiston Park 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
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Ormiston Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 728 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ormiston Park Academy website
Ormiston Park is a small but growing 11-16 Academy. Our vision of ‘Believe and Achieve’ underpins all aspects of academy life in our impressive, well-resourced buildings and grounds. You will join a caring and committed body of staff and enjoy working with friendly and enthusiastic students of whom we are extremely proud. You will play a vital role in providing the highest quality provision, impacting positively on outcomes for our students, ensuring aspirations become reality. Ormiston Park Academy having received our Good judgement in 2017, is now on the journey to Outstanding by 2020.
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