Learning Support Assistant - Rood End Primary School

Ready, Respectful, Safe

'Nurturing Hope and Ambition to Achieve and Succeed'

Senior Leaders are seeking to appoint a committed and skilled Learning Support Assistant to join our friendly and inclusive team. This role will require experience working with children and supporting their learning needs and will involve supporting individual children or small groups of children to access learning, while supporting our whole school value of inclusion. At Rood End Primary we believe that everyone is a teacher of SEND, therefore your role as LSA will require you to support children with additional needs.

• Support children with additional needs in accessing learning, individually or in small groups.
• Create a positive and inclusive learning environment.
• Collaborate with teaching staff and support workers to plan and deliver lessons.
• Contribute to the safeguarding of children, including completing relevant checks.
• Maintain and update student records and support plans.

• Experience working with children and supporting learning needs.
• High standard of spoken and written English and good numeracy skills.
• Fluency in spoken English (essential requirement).
• Eligible for an enhanced DBS check and Children's Barring List check.
• Understanding of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

• Engaging, varied curriculum with a wide range of experiences.
• Friendly and enthusiastic pupils.
• Committed, caring and supportive staff with a wide range of expertise.
• Commitment to staff professional development at all levels.
• An environment where staff and pupils contribute to school life and everyone is valued.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and guarantee an interview for applicants who disclose they would like to be considered under this scheme and meet the essential criteria.

We are covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore speaking fluently in English is an essential requirement for this role.