Learning Support Assistant (Specialist Skills - Hearing Impaired)

Salary:  £26,421 to £28,770 (pro rata £19,527 to £21,742), Grade 6, Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure

Job Start Date: ASAP  

Contract Type: 32.5 hours per week, term time 38.2 weeks per year

Contract Term: permanent

Suitable for ECTs: n/a

Closing Date:  Monday 23 September 2024, 12:00 noon

Interview Date: w/c 30 September 2024

Wilmslow High School

School age range: 11-18

Number on roll: approx. 2,000 (including 500 sixth form)

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and committed Learning Support Assistant with specialist skills to support the hearing impaired.

The post-holder will work within the Learning Support Department supporting students with hearing impairment. The role will involve supporting hearing impaired students in mainstream classes and in the HI Resource Provision Base, to ensure full access to the curriculum through speech and/or sign language.

The Learning Support Team at Wilmslow High School is a significant part of the school, helping to support students with Education, Health and Care Plans to be educated in a mainstream setting, with an emphasis on inclusion and growing independence. The work of the team encompasses the whole school and includes students in every year group and subject. The team benefits from a large purpose-built base which includes a resource provision for ASC students, Skills Development SEN Unit and a Resource Provision for Hearing Impaired Students and includes a number of other facilities which enable us to support students with a wide variety of different academic, physical, emotional, sensory and communication needs.

This would be an excellent role for someone looking to capitalise on their knowledge and experience of supporting hearing-impaired students in the context of a large team and also have a signing qualification: BSL Level 2.  We offer a variety of opportunities to gain different experiences and support for colleagues who wish to progress further within Special Educational Needs. 

We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students every day. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process. 

If invited for interview, you will be:

• asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
• subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.

If successful, you will be subject to:

• an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
• pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.



Current or previous employers will be contacted, and information requested will include:

• disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
• whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns.