Learning Support Assistant
The Robert Smyth Academy, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7JGThis job expired on 24 June 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
August 2024
Closing date
24 June 2024 at 9am
Date listed
5 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,500.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 3 Point 5 - 32 hours per week/ 39 weeks a year
Learning Support Assistant job summary
At Robert Smyth Academy we are very excited about our newly built Communication , Interaction Resource Base which opened in January 2024 providing a learning environment and skilled staff that ensure all pupils feel safe and nurtured, enabling them to reach their true potential.
The setting is highly structured in a way that eliminates barriers to learning. Our aim is to encourage pupils to celebrate their strengths and learn to develop strategies to promote independent adult living and to have the skill set to access employment and education beyond the school.
Our aim is to provide education for 15 young people with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Conditions in a highly structured, therapeutic environment.
The ideal candidate for the LSA will need to be caring and patient and have an excellent knowledge of the needs of students with Autism in order to ensure they receive provision in line with their EHCPs.
Please read the job description and if you require more information on the position and the new facility, do not hesitate to contact us.
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.
About The Robert Smyth Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1200 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Robert Smyth Academy website
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