Job Description

The Stanway School wishes to appoint a Learning Support Assistant with effect from 23rd February 2015 to support students with special educational needs in the classroom. Contractual details of the post are:

Hours - 32.5 per week (8.30am-3.30pm) (part-time will be considered)

Working weeks - 39 per year (term time plus INSET days)

Pay - Band 2 Midpoint (£15,207-£16,231 pro rata per annum)

Actual pay based on 32.5 hours - £11,349-£12,113 per annum

Applications should be made by completing the support staff application form, SD2 and Recruitment Monitoring form and returning them to Sharon Burns at sharon.burns@stanway.essex.sch.uk or via the post to The Stanway School.

The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. A disclosure/status check will be sought from the Disclosure and Barring Service in the event of a successful application.

Information about the School

About The Stanway School The Stanway School is a heavily over-subscribed 11-16 comprehensive school with over 1,300 students currently on roll, the vast majority of whom live in Stanway and the surrounding villages to the west of Colchester. The school is a specialist school in Humanities and Maths & Computing. We have undertaken a huge rebuilding programme and the Creative Arts block, the latest phase of our expansion project, opened in September 2018. By 2021, all year groups will be full with 280 students following this expansion of the school buildings. This is an exciting time to join an already successful school that is looking to continually improve practice: staff are enthusiastic and many take part in voluntary research groups into key areas of school life; students are well-behaved and achieve results above expectation; the culture of the school is calm and purposeful. In March 2012 The Stanway School converted to an academy and in September 2016 joined the newly formed Sigma Trust, a partnership of schools located in North East Essex covering both Colchester and Tendring.

Jonathan Bland Headteacher The Stanway School

Safeguarding The Sigma Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.