Job Title: Learning Support Assistant
Salary Scale Point: TA 2 £15,448.86
Employer: Mercian Educational Trust
Closing Date: 28th February 2025
Interview Date: 4th March 2025
Starting Date: ASAP
Hours: 26.25 hours
Job Purpose
We are looking for an experienced Learning Support Assistant to start with us. Keen to work with our team, we are looking for the successful candidate to bring with them a sense of teamwork and enthusiasm. Working alongside our class teachers and other TAs in the school, you will support children in class to enable them to engage fully with school life and prepare them for the next stage of their learning journey. The role will involve working with children in small groups and on a 1:1 basis as well as supporting with whole class activities.
This role will be supervised by the classroom teacher, a designated supervisor, and/or SENDCo.
On a daily basis you will:
* Assist students to follow behaviour and learning programmes.
* Challenge and motivate students to promote self-esteem.
* Provide support for students in a flexible manner on re-integration to mainstream lessons.
* Assist students to access their curriculum work in a smaller setting.
* Use clearly structured teaching and learning activities to interest and motivate pupils and advance their learning.
* Contribute to the preparation of teaching resources that meet the diversity of pupils’ needs and interests.
* Monitor pupils’ responses to learning tasks and modify your approach accordingly.
* Organise and manage safely the learning activities, the physical teaching space, and resources for which responsibility has been assigned.
* Build and maintain successful relationships with pupils, treating them consistently, with respect and consideration, and being concerned for their development as learners.
* Work on the targets from the Education Health Care Plans.
Generic Responsibilities
* Supervise the activities of individuals or groups of children to ensure their safety and facilitate their physical and emotional development.
* Use specialist skills to undertake those activities necessary to meet the physical and emotional needs of pupils.
* Use specialist skills to foster the intellectual and social development of children.
* Undertake activities necessary to meet the physical and emotional needs of individuals and groups of children, including pupils with educational, physical, or emotional special needs.
* Assist the teacher in the delivery of educational and developmental work programmes.
* Monitor and report individual children's progress, achievements, problems, and developmental needs to the classroom teacher or designated supervisor as appropriate.
* Assist the classroom teacher in the planning of work programmes for individuals and groups of children.
Specific Responsibilities - TA2
Work with children who have an EHCP supporting them with learning activities, transitions, and specific interventions including both 1:1 and small group interventions.
Please contact Katie Lester at Great Malvern Primary School for more information and/or visit the Mercian Educational Trust website to download a support application form and the recruitment pack.
Job Types: Part-time, Temporary
Pay: £12.85-£13.05 per hour
Expected hours: 26.25 per week
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Free flu jabs
* Free parking
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Store discount
Schedule:
* Day shift
* Monday to Friday
* No weekends
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 28/02/2025
Reference ID: TA2GMPS032025
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