Learning Support Assistant

The Billericay School, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9LH

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as reasonably possible

• Closing date

  2 December 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £15,930.52 - £16,675.10 Annually (Actual) Including fringe allowance

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Main Duties

Provide particular and skilled support to all students in a given learning area or mainstream classroom, working in partnership with class teachers.

Work with named individuals or small groups of children under the direction of teaching staff to facilitate access to the curriculum, develop student confidence and promote independent learning skills.

Support students with activities, which support literacy and numeracy.

Support the use of ICT in the classroom and develop students’ competence and independence in its use.

Promote the inclusion and acceptance of children with special educational needs within the classroom, ensuring access to lessons and their content through appropriate clarification, explanation and resources.

Aid removal of barriers to learning, whether they be social, emotional, medical or physically related.

Take an active role in the preparation and maintenance of differentiated materials and resources in the learning areas supported.

Understand specific learning needs and styles, and support learning through the selection of appropriate resources/methods – differentiated as required – to facilitate agreed learning activities.

Implement planned learning activities/teaching programmes as agreed with the teacher, adjusting activities according to students’ responses as appropriate.

Establish positive relationships with students supported.

Provide feedback to students in relation to attainment and progress under the guidance of the teacher.

Liaise with staff and provide background information about students as appropriate.

Liaise with the Head of Personalised Learning on matters concerning named students.

Promote positive student behaviour in line with school policies and help keep students on task.

Participate in the planning and evaluation of learning activities with the teacher, providing them with feedback on student progress and behaviour – particularly in relation to achievement of targets, student profiles, writing reports and records as required.

Monitor and record student responses and learning achievements, drawing any problems, which cannot be resolved easily to the attention of the teacher.

To implement assessments as appropriate.

Accept responsibility, with other support staff, for running the lunchtime homework provision.

To assist with escorting pupils on educational visits.

To understand and apply school policies in relation to health, safety and welfare.

Attend relevant training and take responsibility for own development.

Attend relevant school meetings as required.

To respect confidentiality at all times.

The duties above are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the postholder may be required by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within the context of the job, skills and grade.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

About The Billericay School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1697 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Billericay School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-billericay-school (opens in new tab)

The Billericay School is one of the largest schools in Essex with a roll of almost 1700 students, including 300 in the Sixth Form. The school site enjoys an enviable location; close to the town centre, yet situated in spacious grounds, the school is positioned on an elevated site with distant and sweeping views down towards the River Thames and beyond. In times past, a windmill stood nearby, a piece of local history still commemorated in the school badge.

Teaching takes place in five principal blocks.

The original structure, that dates from the school's foundation some sixty years ago includes an open air, furnished and planted quadrangle for lower school students to use during the summer months.

Other buildings include a modern Technology and Business Studies block, an Art, Food Technology and Textiles building and a Sixth Form Centre that provides a modern, attractive environment for our older students.

Other resources include a large assembly hall with television link, a drama studio, a music suite with recording studio, a media area with video editing suite and a large library/ resource based learning centre, which includes extensive ICT and study facilities as well as housing over 30,000 books.

The school's sporting facilities are exceptional, including a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium and fitness suite.

Our grounds include tennis and netball courts and football, rugby and cricket pitches. The school has recently achieved the national Sportsmark Award for its sporting excellence and work with the community.

The school also has a medical room, with the services of qualified staff throughout the school day.

It is also worthy of note that many of our staff have chosen to send their own children to the school. What greater sign of confidence could there be!

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