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Specialist Learning Support Assistant

Ashby School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DT

This job expired on 28 August 2020 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  28 August 2020 at 10am

• Date listed

  7 July 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern:
  • Part time
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13,433 - actual salary

Specialist Learning Support Assistant job summary

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Learning Support Assistants to join our friendly and dedicated Learning Support Team. You will be required to work very closely with one other assistant to provide care and facilitate learning opportunities to enable a super Year 11 student with complex physical and communication difficulties to achieve, be happy and to succeed within a mainstream environment.

The role offers an ideal opportunity for an individual who is passionate about meeting the needs of children with SEND and who would like to develop their specialist skills whilst working as part of a supportive team within a mainstream setting.

Experience of working with children with a physical disability, such as cerebral palsy, is preferable but not essential as high quality training will be provided.

This is a temporary, full time, term time only post in the first instance, until the end of the 2021 academic year, with the possibility of an extension for a further two academic years.

Hours are 32.5 per week x 38 weeks, there may be flexibility with start and finish times.

The salary for the post is £13,433pa.

We firmly believe that Ashby School is a very special place to work and that this role will be particularly rewarding for the right person.

Application information and further details are available on the school website https://www.ashbyschool.org.uk

Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 28 August at 10.00am.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 2 September.

Ashby School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of its students and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subjected to Enhanced Clearance by the Disclosure and Barring Service and 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.

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About Ashby School

• School type: Academy, ages 14 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1711 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 14 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• Email address: j.bancroft@ashbyschool.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ashby-school-le65-1dt (opens in new tab)

Ashby School is a thriving, successful and over-subscribed 14-19 Academy with 1700 students on roll including 600 post-16. Conveniently located close to the M42 and M1, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and with the newly created national forest on the doorstep, the school is set in its own attractive grounds in the expanding market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.

We are proud of the work we do at Ashby: if you are passionate about teaching and learning and are seeking to develop your practice in a supportive and dynamic school, we would be delighted to receive your application.

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