Learning Support Assistant

Job Description

Required ASAP

24.5 hours per week term time only. (8.45am - 3.00pm Monday - Thursday, 8.45am - 2.30pm Friday)

Salary 3 point 4 (Actual salary, £10,411 per annum).

We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant to work within Connected Learning Multi Academy Trust, based at Silver End Academy.

Applicants should have experience working with children in a school environment. It is essential that you have GCSEs (grades A-C) in both Maths and English, or hold equivalent qualifications in this area.

Successful applicants will join our friendly, caring and highly competent team of learning support staff.

Please apply on-line or contact Michelle Smith, HR Manager by email at hr@connectedlearningMAT.co.uk for more information.

Successful applicants will join our friendly, caring and highly competent team of learning support staff.

Grow, flourish, succeed

At Silver End Academy we all share a common vision for every child and their individual needs. We provide a welcoming environment where children are accepting of others, develop positive relationships and see the school as part of an expanding, wider community, and ultimately, a bigger world.

School Ethos

To foster curiosity in learning, to become independent learners and to encourage children to be passionate about what they do.
To show children that learning is a life-long process of self-improvement.
To place the school at the centre of the community by working closely with parents and local groups.
To give all children equal opportunities, responsibilities and rights, regardless of race, gender, background, ability and disability.

School Aims

To provide, through high quality teaching, a stimulating, caring and safe environment where children are encouraged to develop to their full potential academically, socially, physically and emotionally.
To have the highest expectations of all children and to lead them to have the highest expectations of themselves.
To develop in all children a thirst for learning so that they become independent and self-motivated.
To enable the children to take increasing responsibility for aspects of their own learning, to use and apply their developing skills and to work collaboratively.
To encourage children to have consideration for others, respect for their surroundings and a sense of responsibility for themselves.

Please apply on-line or contact Michelle Smith, HR Manager by email at hr@connectedlearningMAT.co.uk for more information or to arrange a visit to Silver End Academy.

Connected Learning Multi-Academy Trust are committed to:

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of difference backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs
and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.

The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.

Closing Date: 30th September 2021

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.