Learning Support Assistant
Sheridan School
Norfolk
- New
- Salary:
- £20,099 pre probation (£23,400 FTE)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 2 December 2024
Job overview
Sheridan School are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join our Education team!
We are looking for versatile, resilient and committed Teaching Assistant, who can adapt their practice wherever necessary to support across all key stages. The successful candidate will work alongside the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting with pupil behaviour while establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.
Our benefits include:
- Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
- Comprehensive induction
- Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
- Pension scheme
- Paid for enhanced DBS
- Wellbeing support
- Cycle to work scheme and more!
Sheridan School offers an integrated programme of education and therapy for young people with social, emotional and mental health difficulties, compounded by complex disorders including Autism. Age range for students is from year 4 to year 11 and the school is comprised of Primary, Secondary and ASD provisions.
As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.
If you want to progress your career in Education, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.
Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.
If you would like an informal chat about this exciting role, please give our helpful recruitment team a call on 0808 258 3729 or email vacancies@aspris.com
About Sheridan School
- Sheridan School
- Thetford Road, Northwold, Thetford
- Norfolk
- IP26 5LQ
- United Kingdom
Sheridan School is a specialist school for boys and girls aged 10 to 16 who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties with learning difficulties including autistic spectrum disorders. Many of our young people have experienced considerable disruption to their education as a result of their difficulties and may lack confidence in their own abilities. We aim to nurture and develop academic skills and self-belief through an integrated holistic approach centred on individual education, care and therapy to help our young people to thrive effectively in an ever demanding and complex society. This is achieved through personalised multidisciplinary assessments and highly individual education and care programmes.
Our ethos is grounded in valuing individuals in order to develop an appropriate profile of personal qualities and values including reflective thinking, self-belief and through engagement in a positive and appropriate curriculum to ensuring positive outcomes are achieved.
We provide:
- A positive ethos which celebrates and rewards success and progress
- A culture in which students feel safe, secure and valued
- A multidisciplinary approach integrating education, care and therapy programmes
- Individualised programmes for education and therapy
- Small teaching groups
- A framework where students can learn to take responsibility for the control of their own behaviours
- High staff to pupil ratios
- A tranquil environment where students can thrive
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