[ref. p26707416] Thetford - Learning Support Assistant
What skills and experience we're looking for
Great Hockham Primary School is looking to appoint a reliable and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our friendly and happy team in 2024. The successful candidate will support the professional work of teachers as directed.
This role is linked to one specific high needs child at the school and hence is fixed term for the duration of the child’s continuation at the school.
Experience working in a classroom environment is highly desirable, alongside the ability to clearly communicate and always work with the best interests of the pupils in mind.
Specific responsibilities include:
- To attend to the personal and social needs of pupils and any other special requirements depending on the nature of a pupil’s special needs and, wherever possible, making these part of the learning experience;
- Promote inclusion and acceptance of pupils while encouraging constructive relationships within the classroom and with parents;
- Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes;
- Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses, including undertaking literacy and numeracy programmes, recording achievement and progress and feeding back to the teacher.
What the school offers its staff
Great Hockham Primary School is a member of the Sapientia Education Trust (SET). SET is an expanding multi-academy trust with 11 primary and 9 secondary schools.
LGPS Pension, Sodexo Benefits, Care First EAP, Free Refreshments, On-site Parking
Commitment 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.