Learning Support Assistant
January 2025 start or earlier
Full-time 36 hours per week - 39 weeks (Term time)
NJC Grade 4 Point 8 - 11 (Pro Rata 24,286 to 25,412)
Grey Court is a vibrant, successful and well-established school situated on an impressive site close to the River Thames and Richmond Park. Rated as outstanding in all areas in March 2013, then in January 2018 and now once again in February 2024, we continue with our ambitious vision for both staff and students. Come and join us!
About the role
We are looking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant as part of our successful Inclusion Team. The successful candidates will be a team member with the patience, experience and sensitivity to work with some of our most vulnerable and challenging students supporting them individually in lessons or working with small groups outside the classroom.
As a Learning Support Assistant you may have the responsibility of mentoring individual pupils who need support in regulating their mood and helping them focus on lessons. In order to support inclusive teaching and learning in the school you must be someone wanting to work with various SEN/AEN students across the classroom, some of the needs will include Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and Physical and sensory needs.
About you
You will have a drive to ensure that all students, at all academic levels, receive an outstanding experience in their lessons. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to high standards of classroom practice alongside a genuine regard for inspiring progress and quality of education of all our young people.
About us
Grey Court is committed to recruiting the very best teachers and support staff to benefit student experience in the classroom. We are an Ofsted rated outstanding school offering a comprehensive range of GCSEs, A levels and BTEC level 3 diplomas. We serve a diverse community and ensure we bring out the best in each student, be that through following vocational or academic pathways.
Grey Court is part of the Wandle Teaching School Hub and provides a tailor made Early Career Teacher (ECT) programme to develop all aspects of our early career teachers and trainee teachers. The majority of ECTs stay with Grey Court after their training and many teachers progress to leading roles within the school or their own departments.
As a training school we value the continuous development of our staff and offer a full range of
professional training opportunities including in-house and cross-MAT CPD and national leadership programmes.
Grey Court is part of the Every Child, Every Day multi academy trust which is made up of three local secondary schools. We are based in the London borough of Richmond, with good public transport links and close to the river Thames and Richmond Park.
Grey Court is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you would like to work with us, we look forward to hearing from you.
Closing date: 17th December 2024, 12PM
Interview date: TBC
For more information about Grey Court School please visit our website .
For an informal discussion please contact Ms Patricia Cook (Head of Faculty) via email.
Job applications may only be submitted via the TES website. We do not accept CVs or other unsolicited documents emailed to us.
We reserve the right to close the advert early should an appropriate candidate be identified.
Only shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview.
If you do not hear back from us within a week of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted this time.
The Governing and Trust Bodies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and expect all staff to share this commitment. We fully recognise our responsibilities for safeguarding and child protection.
Any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check, overseas criminal record checks where relevant, online background checks (including social media) and receipt of satisfactory references.
It is an offence to apply to work with children if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
The schools within the Trust are committed to all aspects of personal development, are inclusive and seek to ensure every student achieves to the best of their ability.