LSAs - Newport
St George's School, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1XWThis job expired on 18 September 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 31.25 hours per week, term-time (38 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Hay Grade 3 – Hay Grade 5, dependant on the responsibility of the LSA role £17,281 - £18,406.50 per annum (actual)
What skills and experience we're looking for
It is essential that applicants possess the following:
- Experience of working with or caring for children in group setting of relevant school age
- L2 English and maths, or equivalent
- The ability to demonstrate a high level of personal resilience
- Some understanding of, and a willingness to hold safeguarding at the centre of their practice
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- Wonderful students
- The opportunity to be part of an adaptable, committed and skilled staff team
- A creative learning environment, timetable and curriculum
- A wide range of training opportunities for career development
Further information about the job
The community of St George’s empowers everyone to feel safe, valued and welcome.
We work towards our aspirations and celebrate our personal achievements. We learn to make choices that shape our future; enabling us to have our voices heard, be respected, develop resilience and independence to take our place in society.
As an LSA you will work with students at St George’s School and within the community, with complex medical and behavioural challenges, assisting with planning and delivery of the activities within area. You will support other staff to increase their knowledge of individual needs, and work towards implementing specific programs that enable us as a School to respond positively to our students.
Dependant on your skills and relevant experience, the students you support may have a PMLD/ASC diagnosis and require complex medical interventions, in which case it is essential that you are willing to undertake/update specialist training as necessary.
Alternatively, your role may involve providing 1:1 support to one of our KS4 students.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all our staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicant.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St George's School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 212 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St George's School website
- Email address
- jenny.holmes@stgeorges.iow.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01983 593757
St George's School is a unique provision for SEN as a secondary school for students with severe and complex needs.
Arranging a visit to St George's School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jenny.holmes@stgeorges.iow.sch.uk.
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