Learning Support Assistant
Strode College
Somerset
- New
- Salary:
- actual salary £17,039 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 26 September 2024
Job overview
Strode College is looking for a colleague who can support our students as they develop employability skills, achieve their learning ambitions, and gain the personal and social skills they need to prepare for the next stage in their lives.
You’ll be working with students with learning difficulties or disabilities from Entry Level to Advanced Level to provide in-class support with a focus on learning with individual and/or groups of students, general support across the campus and in the workplace as required. Experience of working with sensory impairment, physical disability, mental health, challenging behaviour, ASD or SpLD is desirable.
You must have a good knowledge of learning difficulties and disabilities whilst having excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
Strode College has a local and national reputation for excellence due to the outstanding quality of our teaching and support and the resulting high levels of student aspiration and achievements. We help students realise their potential, maximise their results and achieve success at college and in the future.
Contractual Details
Rate of Pay or Salary: £22,634 per annum pro rata (actual salary £17,039 per annum)
Working Time: 34 hours per week for 36 weeks term time
Contract Type: Permanent
Pension: Local Government Pension Scheme
How to Apply
Please visit the vacancies section of our website
If you require any further information or would like a confidential informal discussion about the role please contact Amy Pope, apope@strode-college.ac.uk
Closing Date for applications: 9.00am Thursday 26 September 2024
Interview will be held on: Monday 7 October 2024
Strode College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.
About Strode College
Welcome to Strode College and thank you for taking an interest in our College.
We believe that every individual, no matter what their starting point, has the potential to achieve great things. We encourage all our students to be ambitious and believe they can succeed. We help them to realise their potential, maximise results and achieve success. This ethos runs through everything we do.
Highest quality further education
We are an Ofsted Good College located in Street, Somerset, offering a wide range of high quality education and training to the local community. Our Sixth Form has an outstanding reputation nationally for the exceptional progress that our students make. This means they are well prepared for future success, and we are incredibly proud of what our students go on to do after Strode College. In fact, we are one of the best performing colleges nationally for delivering outstanding student progress.
Highest quality university level education
We also offer high quality, local and affordable Higher Education. This quality has been recently externally validated by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education with a Silver Award in Teaching Excellence Framework, and we achieved the highest possible rating in our recent external quality review.
Adult courses for career development and leisure
As a local College, focused on supporting its community, we also provide a wide range of Adult courses. These include professional programmes for people looking to upskill within their current place of work or seek new skills for future careers and job opportunities. In addition, we offer leisure courses which you may want to take as a stepping stone onto a professional programme or just because it’s something you’re interested in!
Specialist work-based training
And finally, the College provides specialist work based training in the form of Apprenticeships and work related professional qualifications. Our dedicated Employer Engagement team works closely with local businesses to support them to meet their workforce development needs, translating this into a comprehensive training programme and also helping source new apprentices.
Enjoy an exceptional education
To sum up Strode College, it’s an amazing place to learn, with exceptional staff who are 100% committed to ensuring you achieve fantastic results, with an outstanding reputation locally and nationally; validated by our students’ achievements.
I’d like to invite you to come and see for yourself, so do please get in touch, we’ll be happy to show you around our fantastic college.
John Revill, Principal
View Strode College's latest Ofsted report
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