[ref. t23863722] Learning Support Assistant
Interview date: TBCHours: 15 hours per week, 9:10am – 12:10pm Monday – Friday, term time only plus 15 INSET hours per academic yearAn ELAN LSA is positive, a team player, motivational, flexible, creative, and innovative with a supportive nature, as well as being confident, calm, consistent and resourceful with experience supporting pupils in a classroom environment, with Special Educational Needs or disabilities (SEND).
You will work closely with the class teacher to resource and adapt planning and support high quality teaching and learning across all subjects. You will help to create learning environments where pupils can expand their knowledge. You will work with the school community to uphold our trust and school values.
You need to be proactive, energetic, and committed to engaging pupils, developing their desire to learn working both 1:1 and within small group work. You will help to inspire them to be confident and independent. You will also need to be calm, patient, sensitive and able to comfort children when they’re upset.
You should have experience of:- delivering evidence based, targeted interventions to move children forward
- implementing positive behaviour management programmes
- working with children who have Social Emotional Mental Health (SEMH) needs
- working with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or other high level needs such as global delay.
Why apply to work at Banwell Primary School:
The commitment and dedication of the team at Banwell genuinely brings the whole school to life every day. Staff work hard to encourage and develop each pupil, as an individual, with opportunities both in and out of the classroom that help them to be the best that they can be.Banwell is an inclusive school where we all have, and develop, a strong sense of responsibility, participation, cooperation and tolerance as part of a community where every child and adult feels
valued. We care for our children and their families and work together to break down any barriers to learning and provide support to make school a positive and valuable experience. We aim for all children to leave our school more curious than when they arrived.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.