4 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    14 March 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    27 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: Part-time, 18 hours per week - Wed - Fri (6 hours per day) Term-Time - 38 weeks

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Hay Grade 5 - £9,095 - £9,240 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 details about the role

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.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of then we would love to hear from you, as we recruit for the following role:

LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANTS (T3) – Based at our main site in Newport

Salary – Hay Grade 5 - £9,095 - £9,240 per annum (actual)

Hours per week – Part-time, 18 hours per week, term-time only (38 weeks)

As a T3 LSA you will work with students at St George’s School and within the community, with complex medical and behavioural challenges, and work towards implementing specific programs that enable us as a School to respond positively to our students.

Working under the direction of, and in co-operation with the class teacher and senior LSAs, you will support the learning of the class through 1-2-1 and small group mentoring.


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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jenny.holmes@stgeorges.iow.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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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
200 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01983 539757

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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