Learning Support Assistant

The Rushmere Park Academy, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1EW

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Asap

• Closing date

  21 October 2024 at 8am

• Date listed

  9 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,483.00 - £23,037.00 Annually (FTE) AS 1-3 £22,483-£23037 FTE. Actual pro rata salary £18,456-£18,911

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Learning Support Assistant

The Rushmere Park Academy is looking for an experienced, caring, and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our friendly and hardworking team. You will need to be able to support children from across the school with a range of needs, working alongside teachers to deliver our curriculum as well as your own initiative to support the progress of pupils.

The Learning Support Assistant will be working within a driven and thriving staff team to support the learning and progress of all pupils. They must therefore be able to work effectively under instruction from both class teachers and senior leaders at the school. A TA qualification is desirable whilst experience working with children is essential.

We are committed to supporting the range of individual needs within our nursery, mainstream school and specialist resource provision and we therefore seek out adults who value equity and education for all children. This is an ideal opportunity for a candidate who’s passionate about supporting the learning and development of our fantastic young pupils and would like to increase their experience of working in an OFSTED rated ‘good’ school environment that supports pupils with a variety of needs. The successful candidate will receive appropriate, continuous professional development.

Key Duties

Providing support across the curriculum for pupils in class

Delivering planned one-to-one and group interventions

Supporting the development of an engaging learning environment

Promoting the ethos and values of our academy

Actively prioritising the health, safety and wellbeing of all children

Supervising children during break times

The successful candidate will:

Have experience of working with children in an educational setting (essential)

Be a friendly, enthusiastic team player who’s passionate about supporting the learning and development of our fantastic young pupils

Have a TA qualification (desirable)

Be able to work effectively under instruction from class teachers and senior leaders to support the learning of children in school

Have an understanding of safeguarding and its implications within an educational setting(essential)

Be responsible and able to use initiative

Job Specifics:

Start date: Asap or following notice period

Salary: AS 1-3 £22,483-£23,037 FTE. Actual pro rata salary £18,456-£18,911

Contract: Full time, Permanent, Term time + Inset days,35 hours per week, 8:30am to 4pm Monday to Friday with 30 mins for lunch

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safeguarding

We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:

“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Shared Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and child protection at every stage of the recruitment process.

Applying for the job

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About The Rushmere Park Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 9
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 190 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 9
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Rushmere Park Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-rushmere-park-academy (opens in new tab)

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