Learning Support Assistant (PE Coach)
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School
Slough
- £25,741 - £33,115 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Slough School Levels 4-5, SCP 8 to 23. FTE Salary
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 31 October 2024
Job overview
Learning Support Assistant with coaching skills required to work under the direction and management of the PE Teacher
30-35 hours per week
Term Time Only
Pay Scale £25,741 - £33,115 (FTE) (Level 4 – Level 5) inclusive of London Fringe (pay award pending)
Actual Salary: £20,407 - £26,253 Pro-rata based on 35 hours/week term time only
Required ASAP.
‘Better Never Stops: Community, Kindness, Respect and Excellence’
We wish to appoint a highly motivated, energetic and passionate Learning Support Assistant (LSA) to teach Sport and PE lessons under the direction of our PE teacher.
The successful applicant will be passionate about working with all children, helping them to access physical activity and sport enthusiastically and successfully. They will show willingness to work in partnership with teachers, LSAs and other professionals to give our children a high-quality PE curriculum. They will need to work under the direction of the PE teacher but must demonstrate that they can work on their own initiative. The successful candidate’s salary will be set to reflect skills and qualifications and their competence to work alone, out of sight from the assigned class teacher/PE teacher/leader or off-site.
The duties include supporting play and sporting provision at break and lunchtimes, ensuring that children have access to physical exercise and that they develop social skills and positive play competencies through group and individual activities.
The post holder will possess effective communication skills and will interact professionally with children and our staff team to ensure that children get the most out of provided learning activities and play. We are looking for candidates with a can-do attitude who show a good understanding of young people and can work with pupils, responding to particular approaches to engage them successfully.
We are ideally looking for someone with a good standard of education – English and Maths minimum GCSE grade C.
Previous experience of sports coaching or work with young people would be an advantage but training and mentoring will be provided. The post holder may be required to undertake first aid training. This post might suit someone with aspirations to teach in the future and an openness to further training and development.
Application packs are available on our school website https://www.pennwood.slough.sch.uk/vacancies-1/ Please send completed forms to enquiries@pennwood.slough.sch.uk
Interviews will commence upon receipt of suitable applications (If you have not received a reply 4 weeks after the submission of your application you have not been successful).
Our School is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory ‘Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Check’.
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School operates in line with the Equality Act 2010 and associated public sector equality duties to protect people from discrimination.
About Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School
- Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School
- Penn Road, Slough
- Berkshire
- SL2 1PH
- United Kingdom
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School is a mixed, mainstream school in Slough, Berkshire, that caters for three- to eleven-year-old pupils. It has approximately 670 pupils and has received the UNICEF Rights Respecting School Award, the ICT Quality Mark and Think Schools accreditation. In addition, it is a Centre of Excellence for Talk for Writing.
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School was founded in 1996 as William Penn Nursery School. It now has a Governing Body, Inclusion Team and Specials Needs Team to provide a caring and secure environment for every child.
Headteacher
Jane Girle
Vision and values
The Tree of Life represents the values of Penn Wood. The school celebrates diversity and minimises any barriers to learning. The vision is "Better never stops". This means respecting every children’s individual abilities, helping to building existing skills so progress can be made across all areas of learning.
English and maths are prioritised within each subject area, alongside language and literacy. Teachers strive to establish good thinking and ICT skills for every pupil. The school has adopted a subject-specific approach rather than a cross-curricular one.
Ofsted report
“Teachers work hard to stimulate and motivate pupils, making good use of information and communication technology, where suitable. For example, in a religious education lesson pupils made good progress understanding Sikhism because a video provoked good-quality discussion about what Sikhs believe and how this links to other religions.”
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