Job details Job role Teaching assistant Learning support or cover supervisor Visa sponsorship
Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
Key stage 2
Working pattern
Part time: 22.5 hours per week from 8:30am to 1pm each day to support learning, wellbeing and positive lunchtimes in a specific class
Contract type
Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
£24,405 - £25,430
Actual salary
£13,019 - £13,745
Pay scale
Grade C
Hourly rate
£12.65 to £13.18
What skills and experience we're looking for
We have an exciting opportunity for someone with learningsupport skills and experience to join our dedicated team of LSAs in supportingthe learning, wellbeing and development of children in one of the classes of ourlarge Church of England junior school.
We would like to recruit a new LSA to join our successfuljunior school team as a permanent member of staff as soon as possible.
At ourschool, an LSA supports each class every morning and we have one Senior LSA(HLTA) in each year team to lead the LSA team.
Our class-based LSAs work inpartnership with the teacher in their class to promote learning, wellbeing andgrowth for every child.
Our LSAs support assessment for learning strategies andwork flexibly with different groups of children within their class to help themengage with class learning and make progress.
In addition, our LSAs provide bothplanned and responsive one-to-one and small group support for children's additionallearning needs and to promote their wellbeing.
The National Curriculum embraces a 'Whatever it takes'approach and our LSAs establish strong working relationships with the teachersand children in the class they support to effectively enable every child to besuccessful.
Our Class LSAs also support the children in their class at lunchtimesto help make this an enjoyable and safe part of the day.
The class LSA role at our school is a very rewarding oneand involves working at Hampshire's LSA 2 level which is reflected in the 'C'pay scale.
Our vacancy is within our team of permanent LSAs who work 22.5 hoursper week from 8:30am to 1pm each day to support learning, wellbeing andpositive lunchtimes in a specific class.
Our LSA contracts are for 40 weeks per year to include theircontracted hours for the 39 weeks of term time, plus whole days for educationalvisits, Sports Day, etc.
Our LSAs also work one day in the summer holidays tohelp ensure everything is ready for our children for the start of the newschool year in September.
We are a very large juniorschool with sixteen class - four in each year group.
As a school we areextremely proud of our successes and the effectiveness of our schoolimprovement work has been recognised by the Local Authority.
In April 2022 wesecured a very positive outcome from our short Ofsted inspection, not least thejudgement that our Christian Values of TLC 'help to make the school a veryspecial place.'
This echoed the outcome of our church school inspection inNovember 2019 that our Christian vision 'successfully drives the school'sdevelopment and has an exceptional impact on the lives of pupils and adults.
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Application Procedure
Ifyou would like to join our supportive staff team as we strive for excellencefor our children, please email us for an application pack which includes thePerson Specification which will be used for shortlisting - .
We are keen to recruit a new LSA to start assoon as possible and positively welcome visits to our school.
Our closing dateis Friday 17th January and interviews will be held the followingweek.
Please email us for an application pack and to arrange a visit - .
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Applicants must have:
- Previous experience of working in a school or supportingchildren's learning and development
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Supporting Teaching andLearning in Schools, or qualified by experience
- English and maths to GCSE level
- Effective IT skills that can support learning
Salary will be based on experience and will start withinthe FTE salary range of £24,405 - £25,430.
This equates to an hourly rate of£12.65 to £13.18 and an actual salary of £13,019 - £13,745.
Closingdate: 12 noon Friday 17th January 2025
Interview date: w/c 20th January2025
Job start date: ASAP
ApplicationPack:
- Letterto applicants
- StaffStructure
- LSA2 RoleProfile
- LSA JobDescription
- LSAPerson Specification
-Application Form
-Equalities Monitoring Form
What the school offers its staff
We are a Hampshire County Council maintained school and further information on the benefits can be found using the following link:
to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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