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2 x LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANTS
Band 2 Pt 3 £10,370.72 - Pt 5 £10,789.80 (actual salary per annum), depending on qualifications and experience.
39 weeks per annum (term time plus non-pupil days)
Hours: 25 hours per week
2x Learning Support Assistants are required to provide support and to assist KS3, 4 and 5 pupils at this leading school. Previous experience in this type of role would be desirable but not necessarily essential, having experience with a visually impaired (VI) student would be advantageous.
The work will range across all subjects. The successful applicants would join a strong team, and would be excellent communicators, personable and friendly, flexible, adaptable, and with a good understanding of the learning process. ICT skills would be an advantage.
50 hours of LSA time is required in total. Applicants who are not able to commit to 25 hours per week or who are interested in more hours are welcome to apply but both successful candidates hours would need to total 50 per week combined.
Due to our stringent safeguarding protocol, applications for employment at KEGS can only be accepted on our formal Recruitment Application Form.
Application form and job description are available to download from our website www.kegs.org.uk, or by emailing recruitment@kegs.org.uk. Closing date for receipt of completed applications is 12 noon on Monday 03 June 2019. Interviews will be held shortly afterwards.
Information about the School
King Edward VI Grammar School is a selective boys' state school with a mixed Sixth Form and an exceptional academic and extra-curricular reputation based in Chelmsford. As a school specifically providing specialist education to very able young people, there is a strong focus on academic achievement, with the vast majority of students (both those boys who join in Year 7, and students, including girls, who join for the sixth form) going on to top universities. There is a serious work ethic at KEGS which derives from highly motivated students and dedicated staff. Recent results have put us near the top of national GCSE and A level rankings, and 23 students who left us in Summer 2019 gained places at Oxford or Cambridge and a further 23 went on to study medicine at university. However, league tables are not our guiding principle – we value breadth of study as well. We also focus significant effort on the progress of students who may find a particular subject area more challenging than others, and we have an extensive programme of mentor support.