Learning Support Assistant

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Learning Support Assistant

Accountable to:

Assistant Principal Inclusion

Main Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support the Assistant Principal Inclusion in fulfilling their duties
• Provide support and intervention for the learning of students that enables them to make good or better progress.
• Meet the varied additional learning needs of students in whatever way is the most effective.
• Provide input to personalised learning plans and tracking of student progress over time.
• Support the wellbeing, safety and personal well-being of students as part of the Inclusion team.
• Provide support and information to teachers so that they can better meet the needs of all the students in the school.
• Support strong relationships between home and school with high quality and timely information and feedback.
• Maintain confidentiality and sensitivity to a student’s needs but have regard to the safeguarding procedures of the UTC.
• Such other duties as may reasonably be required at the level of the post.

Specific Responsibilities

• Provide a 1:1 academic/mentoring role to students.

• Be a reference point for students who are referred by teaching and support staff – supporting students as appropriate.

• Provide support in lessons and identify causes/incidents triggering student behaviour.

• Meet with teaching and support staff regarding individual or small groups of students.

• Carry out some administrative tasks to the Assistant Principal
• Attend teaching, pastoral and inclusion meetings
• Play a part in the smooth running of student medicals, vaccinations, photographs etc.

• Support students who have been isolated from their teaching group – e.g. supervision, collection of work, providing guidance with tasks, ensure completed work is returned to staff.

• Organisation and supervision of pupils at lunchtime and break in the Inclusion Hub.

• Support students to re-integrate and ‘catch up’ when they return to school after periods of absence.

• Use the school management information system to access and input data.

• Support with the organisation and administration of baseline testing.

Suitable training will be provided to develop specific roles which will emerge as the post holder starts the job.