Learning Support Assistants
- Employer
- Walsall Academy
- Location
- Bloxwich, Walsall
- Salary
- Salary circa £21,000-£23,000 actual salary – Term Time Only (plus PD Days)
- Closing date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Reference
- Learning Support Assistants
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- Sector
- Education
- Job Type
- Schools / Academies - Support staff roles, Teaching assistant
- Contract Type
- Full time permanent
- Working Pattern
- See advert details
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
- To provide learning support to students as directed by the SENCO responsible for Social and Education Inclusion.
- Supporting groups of students according to their educational needs under the direction/supervision of class teachers.
- Supervising groups of students and individuals under the direction/supervision of the class teacher.
- Preparation of materials for teaching staff.
- Communicating regularly with the class teacher to whom they are responsible to ensure continuity of provision for students and to ensure that progress is made and recorded.
- Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual students and of any group of students assigned.
- The presentation and display of student’s work both within and outside of classrooms.
- Helping to maintain a stimulating, healthy and safe learning environment in the immediate teaching area.
- Where appropriate, communicating and co-operating with appropriate persons or bodies outside the school.
- Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.
- Participating in arrangements for further training and professional development.
- Maintaining good order among students and safeguarding their health and safety whether on the school premises or when engaged in authorised activities elsewhere.
- Participating in meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum or the organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements.
- Attending assembles, registering the attendance of students, and where applicable assisting with playground duties.
- To run intervention strategies for individual/groups of students.
- Communicating with parents to discuss individual student’s attendance, progress and support needs.
- To maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour and to uphold the Nolan Principles.
School Term Time Role
Days/Hours: Monday-Thursday 8.15am-5.00pm | Friday 8.15am-3.45pm
200 days worked per year (190 term time days, plus 5 term time PD Days, plus 5 additional days in negotiation with the Line Manager)
Please visit our website https://walsallacademy.com/job-opportunities/ for further details and to download our non-teaching application form. Please send completed application forms to Mrs Turnbull at applications@walsallacademy.com. We look forward to hearing from interested candidates.
Walsall Academy is committed to safeguarding our students and all posts will require enhanced DBS check and standard pre-employment checks. Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) 2024, refers to the role of online searches as part of due diligence within the recruitment process. In response, all short-listed candidates will undergo an online search prior to interview.
Supporting Documents for Learning Support Assistants
Company
Walsall Academy in Bloxwich, Walsall opened in September 2003. The student enrolment is 1390, with 1,060 in the lower school and a further 330 students in the Sixth Form. The School is one of a number of City Academies established in England prior to the expansion of the Academies Programme in 2010 and was originally sponsored by The Mercers’ Company of the City of London and Thomas Telford School.
We are now a founder member of Thomas Telford Multi Academy Trust.
We have designed a school and curriculum which make learning and teaching stimulating and enjoyable. We offer first class facilities, state of the art ICT and the opportunity to specialise in more Technology, Science and Performing Arts alongside the National Curriculum.
Our Sixth Form is thriving and we provide a wide range of academic and work-related courses for students of all abilities.
The Arts and Sport play an important role in the life of the academy. We want to give our students different opportunities to develop the confidence to express themselves and ignite the all-important spark for success.
The more we expect of our young people the more they will achieve.
- Website
- http://www.walsallacademy.com/
- Telephone
- 01922 493 910
- Location
-
Lichfield Road
Bloxwich
Walsall
West Midlands
WS3 3LX
GB
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