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LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANT (Maternity cover) - TEMPLARS ACADEMY
Required ASAP
Templars Academy are looking to recruit a caring and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to work in our reception class.
This position is initially fixed term to cover maternity leave, with the potential to becoming permanent.
The LSA working hours for this position are 25 hours per week, working pattern is 8.45am - 3.00pm Monday-Friday. (15-minute unpaid morning break), Scale 3 point 6, £14,650 per annum.
This also includes an additional 2.5 hours per week, (½ an hour per day), lunchtime support. (Scale 2 point 4, £1,419 per annum)
Total Salary, £16,069 per annum.
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.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following:
- Enthusiasm to work with children with a variety of different personalities and skill levels.
- Able to engage well with pupils.
- Able to work under your own initiative.
- Smartly presented and with excellent time management skills.
We offer a supportive and enjoyable working environment with a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.
Successful applicants will join our friendly, caring and highly competent team of learning support staff.
Visits to Templars Academy are encouraged. Please contact the school office on 01376 513477 to arrange an appointment.
Templars Academy is a busy but friendly school, with lots going on.
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At Templars Academy, we inspire our children toreachfor the stars,believein their potential, andachieveexcellence in all aspects of their lives through an inclusive, high-quality education and a nurturing school community. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where every child thrives, is encouraged to aspire to their highest academic, personal, and social capabilities, and is empowered to be the best they can be - reaching their full potential.
Our dedicated staff work tirelessly to deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum that challenges and inspires, ensuring that all children make excellent progress and develop a lifelong love of learning. Alongside academic success, we place great importance on personal development, nurturing social, emotional, and moral growth so that our children are well-prepared for the opportunities and responsibilities of life beyond school.
We are committed to continuous improvement, guided by our core priorities to enhance teaching quality, strengthen leadership, and foster consistent high expectations in behaviour and learning. Together with families and the wider community, we work to ensure that every child at Templars Academy can thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
Inspires Multi-Academy Trust and our schools 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 different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
- Promoting 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.
It is recognised that this can only be achieved through sound procedures, good inter-agency co-operation and the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated employees who are suited to, and fulfilled in the roles they undertake.
The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.