Learning Support Assistant

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated individuals who can build supportive relationships with students, based on high expectations, positive regard and care.  Candidates will need excellent teamwork and communication skills, a genuine interest in working with young people, flexible thinking and a willingness to learn.  Caring, patience and resilience are key.   

Our Learning Support Assistants work both inside and outside the classroom, on a one-to-one and group basis, supporting students with a wide range of special educational needs and disabilities.  Working alongside class teachers and also within the Learning Support Hub, you will support students in their academic achievement, as well as with their mental health, wellbeing and inclusion.    

Our students cover the full range of abilities and no two days are the same.  The role can be both challenging and rewarding and you will need to be proactive and motivated to effectively identify and support students’ needs.  Ideally, we are looking for experienced candidates who hold a recognised teaching assistant qualification, but we are also committed to training our LSAs and developing their skills.   

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Hours : 25.5 per week

Weeks: Term time only (38 weeks per year)

FTE salary: £25,584 Grade 5 (Salary is pro-rata to hours and weeks worked - Actual salary £14,823)

Closing date: Friday 13th December 2024 at 9am

Interviews: TBC w/c 16th December 2024

Start Date: ASAP

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In return we will offer the successful candidate:

• A welcoming school, with friendly, enthusiastic and supportive staff

• Staff benefits - employee discounts, discounted gym membership, Cycle2work scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

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If you would like an informal discussion about the post, please contact Mrs Karen Key, Headteacher, on kky@knutsfordacademy.org.uk or 01565 632277. For further information about the school, please visit our website https://www.knutsfordacademy.org.uk/ 

We will only contact candidates that have been short-listed for interview. If you do not receive a communication within 10 working days of the closing date, you can safely assume that you have not been invited to interview.  

The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected'. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable.

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status.

The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers.