Learning Support Assistant

The Eastwood Academy, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 5UU

55 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  4 November 2024

• Closing date

  9 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  15 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3
• Working pattern: Term time: Permanent, term time only, 35 hours per week.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 22,308

What skills and experience we're looking for

Purpose of Job:

To enable pupils’ access to learning by supervising and assisting pupils (one to one and in small groups) across a wide range of activities and supported learning activities. To promote the development of the physical and mental well-being of pupils as directed by a teacher.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Support and assist the pupils in accordance with their timetable whilst in school.
• Help the pupils learn effectively on their own and in a group and develop the pupils’ self-esteem, encourage independence and self-reliance.
• Establish good working relationship with students.
• Provide support for pupils with SEND on a 1:1 basis or in small groups.
• Prepare and/or modify resources to support pupils with SEND in accessing the curriculum.
• Develop knowledge of the particular needs of pupils with SEND and seek advice from the SENCO and class teacher as required.
• Provide positive reinforcements, praise and rewards to pupils with SEND.
• Be patient, flexible and innovative in supporting the needs of pupils with SEND.
• Facilitate inclusion in small group activities with peers’ support interaction between them.
• Maintain accurate records of pupils with SEND.
• Work effectively with other adults in the Academy and wider community.
• Respect and maintain confidentiality but adhere to the safeguarding protocols of information sharing where necessary.
• Attend in service training and relevant meetings relevant to the post in order to keep up to date with developments in working with children with special educational needs.
• To understand and apply school policies in relation to health, safety and welfare
• Attend relevant school meetings as required

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

What the school offers its staff

• High quality internal CPD to all staff members which largely reflects the priorties of the School Development Plan.
• High quality, nationally accredited CPD e.g. MSc, NPQH, NPQSL, NPQML, CSBM, OTP and ITP.
• Opportunities for internal secondments and promotions.
• The Academy has a high specification gymnasium which staff can use free of charge.
  

Commitment to safeguarding

Shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search to help identify information that is publicly available online which the Academy might want to explore with the candidate at interview. Further, we are fully committed to safeguarding and the successful candidate will be expected to undertake the appropriate pre-employment checks, including an Enhanced DBS and Barred List check.

Applying for the job

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to teve@eastwood.southend.sch.uk

Visas cannot be sponsored.

Upload additional documents

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LSA Job Description.pdf - 143 KB (opens in new tab)

Application Form - Non teaching.doc - 158 KB (opens in new tab)

About The Eastwood Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1147 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Eastwood Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: teve@eastwood.southend.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-eastwood-academy (opens in new tab)

EPAT is a cross-phase ‘Starter Trust’, providing high quality educational provision, standards and outcomes in local schools. It was formed on 1st February 2017, through a collaborative partnership between The Eastwood Academy (a secondary converter academy) and Bournemouth Park Primary School (a maintained primary school).

The Eastwood Academy's ethos - ‘Believe, Succeed, Together’- is an uncompromising belief that all pupils can and will succeed in a learning environment which supports and values everyone and their achievements.

Locally, the Eastwood Academy is the highest performing non-selective school and regularly outperforms the selective schools. Nationally, in terms of pupil progress, the Academy has been in the top 10% of schools over the last 3 years.

The Eastwood Academy was subject to a section 5 Ofsted inspection in December 2018 and achieved an ‘outstanding’ judgement in all categories.

Bournemouth Park Academy is a rapidly improving non-selective primary school in Southend. In 2016, it was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted and was ranked in the top 100 most improved primary schools in the country.

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