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Special School Support Assistant (Bank Support - Term Time Only)

Special School Support Assistant (Bank Support - Term Time Only)

Great Oaks School

Southampton

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Salary:
£11.44 per hour
Job type:
Full Time, Part Time, Casual
Apply by:
4 November 2024

Job overview

Great Oaks School is a secondary special school for pupils with learning difficulties in Southampton. Due to expansion we require Bank Support Assistants to work across the school with individuals and small groups covering absences on a daily, weekly and termly basis. The work will include supporting the learning of the young people under the direction of a teacher and helping to meet the personal care needs of the pupils in the school.

Great Oaks is part of the Specialist Schools Trust comprising Great Oaks and Rosewood Special schools.

Please see school website www.greatoaks.school for more details about the school.


The Specialist Schools Trust are absolutely committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with Social Media checks.

Closing date 4th November 2024

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About Great Oaks School

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+44 23 80767660

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Great Oaks School is a 340 place secondary school for young people with a range of complex learning difficulties including autism and speech and language difficulties. Our pupils come from all over Southampton as well as many from Hampshire. We are part of the Specialist Schools' Trust, currently comprising Great Oaks and Rosewood Schools.

At Great Oaks we follow a broad and balanced curriculum with a particular emphasis on developing communication, literacy, numeracy and personal and social skills. In addition we have a focus on creativity and the arts which have proved an extremely successful way of  engaging our young people and helping to promote their self esteem and self confidence. We have introduced the Great Oaks Guarantee which lists 13 extra-curricular opportunities that we aim to give all pupils during their time at the School

At Great Oaks we strongly believe in partnership working – we work closely with the other special schools in Southampton, with local secondary schools with a range of multi-agencies and with parents. Pupils at Great Oaks benefit from an experienced and dedicated staff team who have skills in working in a range of curriculum areas as well an understanding  and empathy for the needs of young people with learning difficulties. We benefit many different  specialist facilities include sensory rooms, IT suites, sports hall and theatre.

We currently have 3 sites, Our largest site on Vermont Close Southampton, are supplemented by a site for our older pupils and college students on Green Lane and a personalised learning provision on Bugle Street 

We aim to put the needs of the young people at our school at the heart of everything that we do and through promoting a growth mindset help to ensure that all pupils irrespective of their learning difficulties or past educational attainment can make real progress and be enabled to succeed.

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