Learning Support Assistant

2 weeks ago

Harborne, United Kingdom Queen Alexandra College Full time

**Description**:
To promote independence for our students through learning and enabling support.

**Working Pattern: 32.5 Hours, 39 weeks, Term Time Only**
**Permanent Contract**

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Learning**
- Recognising & Recording progress of students against their targets
- Understand Curriculum area and broad course objectives including the techniques utilised to evidence progress (such as photographs, videos, and witness statements).
- Participate in team meetings
- Adaptable approach to different learning styles of our students
- Understand disability theory & practical implementation of this to engage students in learning
- Adapt styles of communication to develop a positive and constructive learning environment
- Liaise and implement strategies from specialists (IT/SLT/ Physio)
- Support communication through the development of your own skills in communication methods (PECs/Makaton/BSL)
- Support Tutors to ensure the classroom environment is suitable for students sensory or support needs
- Support Tutor in the creation and preparation of differentiated resources.

**Personal Tutoring**
- Undertake tutorials with your assigned students on a regularly directed basis.
- Agree with your assigned students, a range of targets and review these regularly.
- Attend and participate in the annual and transitions reviews for your students

**Social & Emotional Support**
- Recognise the social and emotional needs of our students and adapt your support in line with the agreed strategies to support positive improvements
- Contribute to the development and updating of Positive Support Plans and Risk Assessments
- De-escalate behaviour that challenges in line with the positive behaviour support plan, utilising all training and MAPA techniques where applicable.
- Undertake preventative work to reduce the likelihood of behaviour that challenges.

**Break & Lunch Support**
- During unstructured time, support students to ensure ratios and safety are addressed at all times.
- Support the students to engage with their peers or chosen activities.
- Lead and support students during club/ directed study or enrichment activities, sharing your knowledge where applicable.

**Personal Care**
- Support students with a range of hygiene needs, including feeding, toileting and changing clothes.
- Ensure the personal care needs are met in line with care plan and performed with respect and dignity.
- Support students to access the full campus and activities, which may require you to push wheelchairs/ guide wheelchairs/ sighted guide students.

**General**
- Use technology to access information on students to ensure their support needs are met.
- Ability to talk to external professionals, families and careers, where directed to support students
- Participate in personal education, including mandatory and skills development training
- Actively engage with Peer Mentoring for yourself, along with new and existing colleagues.
- Support students to access activities in the community to develop their independence.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Essential**
- Level 2 - English & Maths (equivalent)
- Experience of working effectively with young adults with barriers to learning
- Excellent oral communication and interpersonal skills
- Good IT skills, including word processing, Excel and Microsoft Programmes
- Ability to communicate effectively with young adults with barriers to learning, including those who may present behaviours that challenge
- To have previous experience of SEN learners with moderate to severe learning difficulties and be able to provide the associated curriculum, approaches and strategies.
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff, parents, carers, and other external contacts, at all levels, using a variety of media.
- To be able to demonstrate learning strategies as appropriate to people with visual impairment and autism and/ or complex disabilities.
- To be familiar with communication methods and access technology as appropriate to learners with visual impairment and other disabilities

**How to apply**:
personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to QAC. Please take time to

review the job description above.

Please upload a CV/Resume* with details of your full employment history (since leaving school,

including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in

employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you

believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and

person specification requirements. Your CV/Resume* will be re-produced in a standard format by

the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.

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