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Kings Ford Academy - Learning Support Assistant
Required ASAP
We are looking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant to join Kings Ford Academy in Colchester.
The working hours for this position are 24.5 hours per week, term time only. Working pattern Monday - Thursday 8.45am - 3.00pm, Friday 8.45am - 2.30pm, this includes a 15-minute unpaid morning break. Scale 3 point 6, actual starting salary £14,357 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 working hours - 27 hours per week, total salary £15,776 per annum
Applicants should have experience working with children in a school environment as well as children with educational needs. 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.
It is essential that the successful candidate can 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.
If you feel that you could be the person we are looking for, we would love to hear from you. Visits to our school are encouraged, please contact the school office on 01206 573807 to arrange an appointment.
At King's Ford Academy, we are proud to be a vibrant junior school where every child is valued and inspired to achieve their best. We currently have one class in Year 3 and Year 4, and two classes in Year 5 and Year 6, creating a close-knit environment where children feel a strong sense of belonging.
We believe in developingactive, enthusiastic, and curious learnerswho are confident, resilient, and ready to embrace new challenges. Our curriculum is designed to spark curiosity, encourage creativity, and foster a lifelong love of learning.
A key part of our ethos is building a strong community. We work hard to ensure every child feels included and supported, and we actively nurture positive relationships between pupils, staff, and families. Beyond the classroom, we continue to strengthen links with the local community, including the military, local businesses, and faith centres, helping children understand the world around them and their place within it.
Inspires 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 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.