Learning Support Assistant (mainstream)

Learning Support Assistant (mainstream)

Salary: £85 - £100 per day (depending on experience)

Job type: Full Time, Long term

Start date: As soon as possible

Job overview

Our Primary Academy has an exciting opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Learning Support Assistant to join our highly collaborative and supportive team. Our teaching support team is pivotal to our success in the classroom and provides a great deal of support for our teachers, and this position for an LSA will strengthen the team even further with their knowledge, experience and additional support that they can provide our teaching staff with.

Our successful candidate will be able to establish strong working relationships with staff and students alike, be able to work as part of a team, and will be reliable and excellent communicators. Our new LSA will work to support children struggling with confidence or with any additional needs across EYFS / Key stage 1 and 2. You will support class based and small groups and 1:1 interventions to ensure that children can progress confidently.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Enthusiastic, energetic and adaptable
• Capable of working independently and in a team
• Able to motivate and support pupils
• Able to work with individual pupils and small groups of pupils
• Able to demonstrate experience with interventions and learning support
• Candidates should have a minimum of a Level 3 NVQ or equivalent, and have experience of working within a Primary school
• Possess an unending desire to help all children achieve their best
• Possess a caring nature and a deep regard for children
• An exemplary communicator with patience and experience of working with children with additional needs or low confidence

Join our team because:

• We care - about our pupils through our human scale approach to education, our staff and their well-being and the communities that we serve, driven by our high ideals and strong moral values
• We have boundless ambition - to achieve excellence for all and create confident children with high levels of resilience and integrity
• We work together - as one team in the belief that we are greater than the sum of our parts. We foster an enterprising culture through collaboration and in close partnership with industry and other educators.
• We keep getting better - using our ‘can-do’ attitude towards continuous improvement and innovation

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. You will have a safeguarding responsibility if appointed. The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references. This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

To apply for this opportunity send your detailed CV to Clarus Education now to be considered. We will be contacting those shortlisted within 48 hours of an application.

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