Job Description

Templars Academy - Learning Support Assistant

We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant to join our friendly and professional team at Templars Academy in Witham.

This position is for 24.5 hours per week, term time only. (8.45am - 3.00pm, Monday - Thursday, 8.45am - 2.30pm on a Friday). This includes an unpaid 15-minute morning break and 1-hour lunch break.

This position is initially fixed term for the Academic year linked to funding, however there is a possibility of extension.

Salary Scale 3 point 5, Actual starting salary, £14,432 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.

Templars Academy is located on Cressing Road in Witham, Essex. Our large fenced site benefits from excellent facilities. This includes two school buildings, each with disabled access and toilets, a disabled car parking space close by, and their own halls. We have extensive landscaped grounds, a fully air-conditioned ICT suite and a well-stocked library. The staff and children thoroughly enjoy working together across the school sites. We are constantly seeking to improve the learning experiences for children and have created a curriculum which captures their interest in line with the current national curriculum.

Our vision has recently changed to reflect the way our 5 schools in the MAT work together and are connected. 'All parts to make the whole 'encapsulates the spirit of togetherness. We know that together we are stronger and, with your support, strive to provide the very best education for the children in our care, within a nurturing and caring environment.

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.