Learning Support Practitioner
Haywood Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 7ABThis job expired on 30 November 2022
Start date details
January 2023
Closing date
30 November 2022 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 November 2022
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 30 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £15,785.58
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Duties & Accountabilities:
- To contribute to the delivery and adaptation of the curriculum for students with Special Educational, Physical, Emotional, Social and Developmental needs.
- To implement the agreed targets for students and meeting the needs of students with SEND and with Education, Health and Care Plans.
- To contribute to the creating of a differentiated, stimulating, safe environment, through classroom organisation and by raising aspirations and achievement levels.
- To contribute to the assessment of students, particularly for those in your particular group/class through observations, records and discussions with other Learning Support Practitioners, Teachers, Inclusion Managers and the SENCO.
- To support the maintenance of positive links between home and school.
- To maintain a safe environment for children, staff and visitors as far as it is possible and practicable and assist with integration arrangements as appropriate.
- To liaise with outside agencies as directed, e.g. Welfare Officers, Psychologists, and Social Care.
- To support the teacher in managing the behaviour of the students.
- To perform effectively in the role and to ensure that the employee safeguards and promotes the welfare of children and young people
- This post is for one to one or for group support.
Personal competencies and qualities
- The ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.
- The ability to work in a team environment and under pressure.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- A good sense of humour.
- A calm demeanour.
- A perceptive understanding of young people and their needs and expectations.
What the school offers its staff
Our values are important to us and guide the work we do:
- Ambition: Our Academies aim to unlock the potential for all learners to achieve their dreams, hopes and aspirations.
- Cooperation: We value working together in teams, supporting each other, and sharing expertise and accountability to improve standards.
- Commitment: Our Academies are a family of Academies with a common bond, dedicated to the communities that they serve.
- Creativity: We encourage innovation and the use of imagination and original ideas in all our Academies.
- Leadership: We believe in listening to, inspiring and empowering our learning communities so that they can achieve their true potential.
- Respect: We value all people and organisations abilities, qualities and achievements, and operate using the principles of equality, equity and solidarity.
The Trust is on a journey from Good to Great. Through cooperation and collaboration, we develop sustainable partnerships that will provide a legacy for tomorrow’s generation. This enables our member Academies to become greater than the sum total of their parts.
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.
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About Haywood Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1154 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Haywood Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@citylearningtrust.org
- Phone number
- 01782 853535
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