Specialist Lsa

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Reporting to:
SENDCo

**Hours**:Bucks Pay 3: 16-20 (FTE £24,310 - £26,295). Actual: £18,151 - £19,633

33.5 hrs/wk, 38 weeks p.a. (plus holiday pay) FTE 0.7466 (dependent on length of service)

Actual: 8:15-4:30 Monday, 8:15-3:10 Tues-Fri; Term time only.
Duties: one 2nd break and one lunch duty a week included. Additional paid lunchtime duties
available upon request.

**Roles &**
**Responsibilities:
1. Under the direction of the SENDCo, use specialist expertise and training to lead the SEND
department in Communication and Interaction, so that individual needs are met

2. Working in partnership with the class teacher, **to support the education, personal and social**
**development of pupils in the class**, including those with special educational needs and/or
bilingual needs, and to establish positive relationships with pupils

3. To be **proactive in identifying and supporting needs** as they arise, communicating needs
appropriately with relevant staff and professionals

4. To be a **trusted adult** (named LSA keyworker) to enable implementation of SEND Code of
Practice

5. To work within school policies and procedures with an up-to-date understanding of **Keeping**
**Children Safe in Education** and related Safeguarding, Child Protection and Code of Conduct
requirements

**Prescribed**
**Duties:
**Under the direction of the SENDCo, use specialist expertise and training to lead the SEND**
**department in Communication and Interaction (C&I), so that individual needs are met.**
- Use specialist training and skills to identify and remove barriers to learning in the classroom.
- Model and share expertise with LSA team and teachers, to enable Quality First

Teaching/Learning Support.
- Under the direction of the SENDCo and Assistant SENDCo, identify students in need of C&I

interventions and coordinate their attendance at the appropriate interventions.
- Use specialist expertise and training to plan, prepare and deliver appropriately differentiated

learning activities/interventions for individuals/groups
- Evaluate the impact of targeted interventions (e.g. Lego therapy, ELSA, social skills groups)
- Monitor C&I students and assess, record and report on students’ achievement, progress and

development
- Liaison with the Specialist Teaching Service’s C&I Team, drawing on their expertise to ensure

C&I students’ needs are met.

**Working in partnership with the class teacher, to support the education, personal and social**
**development of pupils in the class, including those with special educational needs and/or**
**bilingual needs, and to establish positive relationships with pupils**
- Build productive working relationships with classroom teachers
- Implement structured learning activities and to assist individual/group of pupil/pupils to

complete tasks
- Ensure that students have engaged effectively with assessment and feedback, liaising with

the teacher as appropriate
- Ensure that students are engaged with lessons as they are taught, redirecting prompting or

interacting with students as required towards the teaching and materials.
- Support specialist interventions as directed by professionals, including sharing key strategies

with teachers
- Planning and delivering one-to-one and group work support as appropriate
- Providing information for use by the teachers to enable the best outcomes for SEN students
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities

to learn and develop

**To be proactive in identifying and supporting needs as they arise, communicating needs**
**appropriately with relevant staff and professionals**
- Use a range of behaviour for learning strategies to support the climate for learning in the

classroom, including circulating, checking and employing de-escalation strategies as
appropriate
- Work collaboratively with students and teachers to identify areas of needs (as they arise),

devising individual targets and reviewing effectiveness of strategies with students
- Monitor student well-being and attendance, and work collaboratively with the Pastoral

Teams to improve these areas
- Assist in the monitoring/recording of pupil progress, problems and developmental needs,

ensuring that all relevant staff are aware of key information

**To be a trusted adult (named LSA keyworker) to enable implementation of SEND Code of**
**Practice**
- To develop positive relationships with pupils to assist pupil progress and attainment
- To establish constructive relationships and communicate with families/other

agencies/professionals, to support achievement and progress of pupils
- To undertake activities in monitoring the personal social and emotional needs of pupils
- To assist in the specific medical/care needs of pupils when specific training has been

undertaken
- To ensure that key students’ passports and plans are kept up-to-date and relevant to

individual needs (Edukey)
- To assist in pupil supervision and assis