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Learning Support Assistant

St Margaret's Church of England Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L17 6AB

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• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  20 January 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  20 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 24027.00 - 24790.00

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Role: Learning Support Assistant

Grade: SCP3 – SCP5

Contract: Permanent

Reports to: Assistant Headteacher

Job Focus

The Academy of St. Margaret’s are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious Learning Support Assistant to support our students on a permanent basis. This role will support students with special educational needs and disabilities; helping improve their outcomes.

This is an exciting time to join the Academy as we are part of the All Saints Multi Academy Trust. The Trust is committed to improving, accelerating and enabling ambitious life goals amongst all young people in their academies.

Core Responsibilities & Tasks

• Provide learning activities for classes/individuals under the professional direction and supervision of a qualified teacher in order to progress students’ learning.
• Assess, and report on development, progress and attainment as agreed with the teacher.
• Monitor and record student responses and learning achievements, drawing any problems which cannot be resolved easily to the attention of the teacher.
• Participate in planning and evaluation of learning activities with the teacher, writing reports and records as required.
• Support learning by selecting appropriate resources/methods to facilitate agreed learning activities.
• Provide particular and skilled support to all students in a particular learning area from within the overall national curriculum.
• Be involved in planning, organising and implementing SEN Support Plans, including attendance at, and contribution to, reviews.
• Consult with children and their families and carers and other adults as directed. • Administer first aid when required.

Communication and Liaison

• Communicate effectively with the parents of students as appropriate.
• Where appropriate, communicate and co-operate with persons or bodies outside the Academy.
• Follow agreed policies for communications in the Academy.

Additional Notes

• The job purpose and key statements remain indicative and by no means exclusive. Given the evolving needs of the Trust, flexibility among staff is very important. All staff may be required to undertake other such reasonable duties as may be required from time to time in line with the grade of their post.
• An Enhanced DBS Check will be requested on successful application to a position at the Trust.
• The Trust operates a non-smoking policy. 

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 St Margaret's Church of England Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 995 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St Margaret's Church of England Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-margaret-s-church-of-england-academy (opens in new tab)

“A safe and friendly place to learn”: Ofsted, quoting students, 2019; “The distinctiveness and effectiveness of St Margaret’s as a Church of England school are outstanding”: SIAMS, 2017.

Located in the southern suburbs of Liverpool, St Margaret’s is an oversubscribed 11-18 Church of England boys’ converter Academy with a large mixed Sixth Form. The school enjoys an enviable reputation; attainment is consistently above national averages

St Margaret’s is unequivocally committed to the highest standards of safeguarding. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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