Learning Support Assistant

3 weeks ago


Cheshire, United Kingdom Knutsford Academy Full time

Knutsford Academy

Cheshire East
- £21,969 - £24,055 per year
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- Salary:

- £21,969 - £24,055 per year
- Job type:

- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:

- ASAP
- 4 December 2023

**Job overview**:
We are looking for a caring, resilient and proactive Learning Support Assistant to work in a 1:1 support role with one of our EHCP students.

The key characteristics that we are looking for are a high level of care, resilience and positive regard and the ability to build a strong and supportive relationship. Experience of working with students with Autism/ADHD and/or an ELSA qualification is particularly desirable.

Your role will be both inside the classroom, providing support in lessons with focus, self-regulation and appropriate behaviour and also working 1:1 outside of some lessons to access curriculum work and also build strategies to manage anxiety and improve self-esteem and social interaction skills.
- A welcoming school, with friendly, enthusiastic and supportive staff
- Staff benefits - employee discounts, discounted gym membership, Cycle2work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme

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**Hours : 32.5 per week**

**Weeks: Term time only (38 weeks per year)**

**Actual salary: £16,152, **Grade 5 (Salary is pro-rata to hours and weeks worked)

**Closing date: Monday 4th December 2023 at 9am**

**Interview dates: 6th to 8th December 2023**

We are open to flexible working hours and would welcome a discussion with potential applicants to explore a mutually convenient work pattern. Our Learning Support Assistants receive a comprehensive training package to secure continued professional development.

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- The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable._
- The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers._

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***Knutsford Academy**:

- _ Knutsford Academy_
- _ Bexton Road, Knutsford_
- _ Cheshire_
- _ WA16 0EA_
- _ United Kingdom_
- +44 1565 633294_

Knutsford Academy provides secondary education to over 1200 students aged from 11 to 18 in the historic town of Knutsford, less than 20 miles from the centre of Manchester and minutes from the M6 motorway. Students arrive in Year 7 from the local primary schools in Knutsford and we also attract a number of students from the south Manchester and Northwich areas. The school formed in 1953 as Knutsford High School and still operates from the original site in the centre of the town, it transferred to Academy status in 2012.

**Knutsford Academy and Cheshire Studio School are part of The Learning Partnership.**

The Learning Partnership is a new multi-academy trust that was formed on 1st September 2023 as a merger between The Learning Alliance and The Learning for Life Partnership. The trust consists of fourteen schools, eight of which are primary schools and six are secondary schools, all based across East Cheshire and North Staffordshire.

**Our School Vision**:
**Academic Excellence**:

- We provide a supportive and challenging environment to ensure our students achieve academic excellence at Knutsford Academy.

**Strong Community -** We draw on the strength of our community within Knutsford Academy and work with our local community around Knutsford.

**World Class Opportunities** - We aim to prepare our students for life beyond school by providing world class opportunities.

**Our School Values - ARC**:
**Ambition - **We have high expectations of ourselves and work hard to achieve them.

**Respect** - We respect ourselves, our environment and other people.

**Kindness** - We look after ourselves and others and celebrate our differences, because they are what make us unique.

**The Knutsford Academy Team**

Knutsford Academy is led by Headteacher Karen Key, who oversees the strategy and running of the school. There are currently over 60 teachers at the school and a support team who all work collectively to deliver the very best for our students.

**Professional Development**

We provide a range of training programmes through our own teacher training school, including a PGCE run in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, together with a personal development programme for those looking to progress to the next step, offering the NPQML and NPQSL, run in partnership with the Star Institute.

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