Part Time/Term Time - Learning Support Assistant with SEN focus

Ogbourne CofE Primary School, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SU

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible, we reserve the right to interview and employ as applications are submitted

• Closing date

  31 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £8,403.81 - £8,537.04 Annually (Actual)

Part Time/Term Time - Learning Support Assistant with SEN focus job summary

Ogbourne St George School, set in an area of outstanding beauty whose values of Relationships, Integrity, Valour, Excellence, Respect and Service are seeking a new addition to their established, friendly team.

We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant (LSA) in a varied role, 15 hours per week term time only plus inset days. Monday - Friday mornings on a Fixed Term Contract ending on 31st August 2025, with the potential to become more permanent. The role may include providing individual support for a pupil with additional learning needs as well as working with whole class and small groups of children, under the direction of teaching staff, to ensure all pupils make excellent progress and reach their full potential. Our aim is to guide and nurture our children, inspiring aspiration and a love of learning - From small streams, big rivers flow.

Are you someone who has;

• high expectations of what children can achieve
• experience of working with children of primary age (which is desirable although full training will be given to the right candidate)
• flexibility and creativity
• resilience, and can pick themselves up when things don’t go to plan
• a passion for and experience of working with children with emotional difficulties
• a positive approach and passion for engaging children in learning
• an ability to develop good relationships with children, colleagues and parents
• Is punctual, reliable and committed
• Can work in a calm manner at all times

If this sounds like you, we would very much welcome you to the school for a visit by calling the office on 01672 841318, emailing our School Business Manager Hannah, on hannah.purnell@excalibur.org.uk or applying here online.

We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date, therefore early applications are recommended.

Safeguarding Statement

Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community. The aims of the Trust’s recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.

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.

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About Ogbourne CofE Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 86 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Ogbourne CofE Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ogbourne-cofe-primary-school (opens in new tab)

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