Primary Learning Support Assistant
Heyford Park School, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 5HDThis job expired on 8 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 October 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
- £23,114.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) pro rata accordingly - 38 weeks per year ( Term Time only)
Primary Learning Support Assistant job summary
Role: Primary Learning Support Assistant
30 hours per week
Fixed Term : 04/11/2024 – 31/03/2025
(To start as soon as possible)
Salary: NJC Grade 4 (points 4-5)
£23,114 - £23,500 per annum (pro rata accordingly)
- Are you passionate about educating and nurturing individuals, understanding their needs and contributing to the best environment in which they can thrive?
- Do you want to work in a community school that knows each one of its children and their families well and where we can watch children progress from Nursery to Key Stage 4?
- Do you thrive as part of a team?
If the answers to these questions are “yes”, then you may be the person we are looking for to join our team.
Heyford Park School prides itself on knowing our children well as individuals.
As an inclusive all-through School, we educate students from the age of 4 through to 17 with nursery provision on site. We provide an environment and experience that not only allows our children to achieve what they are truly capable of, but also equips them with excellent individual academic progress and a ‘can do’ attitude.
Primary Learning Support Assistant:
We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic individual to join our committed primary staff team. This role will involve supporting specific individuals and may also involve working with children within a classroom and within or outside of the classroom in different sized groups.
You will:
- Be adaptable, hard-working and enthusiastic
- Recent experience of working with children with SEND in particular with children who have ASD or ADHD
- Be able to engage with and inspire children
- Have some experience of working with children in Early Years aged 2-5 years
- Be willing to learn new skills to support children with Special Educational Needs
- Give primary care including intimate care to support a child on a one to one basis daily.
- Ensure the personal hygiene of the child.
- Enjoy working with children and seeing them grow and change
- Be resilient, patient and enjoy seeing small achievements as big steps forward
- Be an outstanding team player
- Always strive for the best for the children in your care
- Show clear attention to detail, especially when dealing with the needs of individuals
- Be willing to undertake specific training
- Be flexible throughout your working day, due to the school environment.
- Be unwavering in your desire to promote equality of opportunity for all.
- Be keen to encourage children to be curious, independent learners who are not afraid to take risks
We can offer an exciting opportunity to work with a forward-thinking and dynamic team.
We welcome visits to the school, and would welcome the chance to show you round and explain more about this role.
To discuss this role or to visit the school, please contact, Head of Primary, on rxmarchant@heyford.epatrust.org
or call 01869 232 203
- Please submit your application as soon as possible
- Interviews will be arranged directly with candidates at our earliest mutual convenience.
Applications must be made using the EPA Application Form, which should be submitted along with the Equal Opportunities and Personal statements by email to recruitment@heyford.epatrust.org
In the personal statement, please explain why you feel you would be suited to this role.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undertake and receive a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service check as well as attending safeguarding training as part of this role.
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 Heyford Park School
- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 595 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Heyford Park School website (opens in new tab)
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