Learning Support Assistant
Newton Prep School
Wandsworth, London SW8
- New
- Salary:
- We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- January 2025 - working 5 mornings per week, term time only
- Apply by:
- 6 December 2024
Job overview
Newton Prep is a successful and vibrant school for children aged between 3 and 13 situated at the heart of one of London’s most exciting developing areas in Nine Elms. We are conveniently located a short walking distance from Battersea Park and Queenstown Road railway stations, with the newly opened Northern Line connecting London Bridge to Battersea Power Station in easy walking distance.
We are seeking to appoint a self-motivated and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our dynamic SEND Department. As a Learning Support Assistant, you will provide support to one of our pupils and enable them to access learning across the curriculum, using personalised approaches both with 1:1 and group learning activities.
The successful candidate will ideally have prior experience in a similar, or related, role. You will need to have an ability to work flexibly and with enthusiasm and a can-do attitude. You will work in partnership with class teachers and the SENDCO, to support learning in line with codes of practice, school policies and procedures.
Normal school working hours are 8.30am to 1.15pm Monday to Friday, with a 30 minute lunch break.
This is a part-time, temporary position (term time only), working 5 mornings per week, commencing January 2025.
We offer a competitive salary, reflecting the experience and qualifications of the successful candidate, a contributory Group Personal Pension Scheme, alongside benefits including: Staff gym, free on-site parking, cycle-to-work scheme, free ‘travel to work loan scheme’, free school lunch, tea and coffee during term time, 24-hour counselling and legal advice service, training and development opportunities.
For full details please see the attached Candidate Brief, which is also available to download from the school’s website www.newtonprepschool.co.uk along with our application form, These can also be obtained by phoning the HR Department on 020 7720 4091 ext. 1255.
To apply, please complete the application form and email this to the HR Assistant at hrassistant@newtonprep.co.uk. Alternatively, forward it via post to the HR Assistant, Newton Prep, 149 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BX.
The closing date for applications is 9.00am on Friday 6th December 2024.
Interviews will be held week commencing 9th December 2024. However, the School reserves the right to interview and appoint this position ahead of any advised application closing date should an appropriate candidate be found. Therefore, it is advisable to submit applications as early as possible.
Newton Prep 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 expected to undergo an enhanced DBS disclosure check including a Barred List check.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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About Newton Prep School
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In a London landscape crowded with prep schools, Newton Prep stands out. The school, founded in 1991, has an unbeatable combination of size and eclecticism, coupled with extraordinary facilities and outside spaces. Its position at the heart of Central London’s most burgeoning development, Newton is a short walk away from the Nine Elms to Battersea riverfront. This hosts the bustling new ‘town’ around the rebuilt Battersea Power Station; a new extension of the Northern Line tube now means the school is within five minutes of three stations.
When arriving, visitors and prospective parents always comment on Newton Prep children: they are well-educated, of course, but noticeably curious, kind and articulate. Above all, in this modern world, they are equipped with the best of British values: pupils are encouraged to think for - and be - themselves.
Academic success is central to all that is taught. More than that, however, the school ensures children are equipped with a sense of self, resilience and hopefulness. We encourage children to think outside the curriculum. Whether it’s piano lessons, judo or Boggle, children need ways of engaging: we aim for our Newton Prep children to enter adolescence feeling that they already have more to contribute than just academic achievements. Yes, we need to get them into the right schools, but not at the total expense of their well-being, character and love of learning.
Inspiring a love of learning is central to Newton Prep’s offering. With a huge all-weather pitch capable of supporting four fixtures at a time, a 120-seat recital hall, a music technology suite, recording studio, 300 seat auditorium, three gymnasiums, bustling art studios, dance studios, two libraries and three hands-on science labs, children are encouraged to “do” as well as “learn”. We have an oasis of a garden where our children perform Shakespeare, hunt for mini-beasts and conduct scientific experiments.
Despite the excellence of their education, Newton Prep children are notable for their lack of arrogance; there is no sense of entitlement here. The kindness and generosity shown by the pupils towards their peers is remarkable; we are particularly proud of the engagement between the older children and our youngest pupils.
This spirit of community is also built into the Newton Diploma, our revolutionary humanities curriculum for Years 7 and 8. This is a cross-curricular, rigorous and exciting programme which allows pupils to explore links between subjects, extend initiatives for service and leadership, and breathe real fire into their intellectual curiosity.
We are not a blazers-and-boaters kind of school. As a school only thirty years young, we are not limited to looking back at the past to inform what we do in the future. We focus all our present energies on ensuring a bright future for our bright children. We want Newton Prep children to enjoy their precious childhood years.
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