Learning Support Assistant

**Learning Support Assistant - Behaviour and Attendance**

**Salary**: £18,992.19 to £20,243.04, Grade 5 Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure

**Job start date**: ASAP

**Contract type**: 32.5 hours per week, term time: 38.2 weeks per year

**Contract term**: Permanent

**Suitable for ECTs**: N/a

**Closing date**: Wednesday 26th February 2025 at 12 noon

**Interview date: TBC - Wc Monday 3rd March 2025**

Wilmslow High School

School age range: 11-18

Number on roll: approx. 2,000 (including 500 sixth form)

This is a full-time (32.5 hours per week), term time (38.2 weeks per year) appointment.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Progress House Team. For information about this vacancy and others please see Learning Support Opportunities at Wilmslow High School below.

Salary at appointment will depend upon experience. If appointed at the entry-level salary, appropriate training will be offered to support pay progression.

In this job, you will work specifically in our Progress House Provision, supporting students with complex behavioural special Educational Needs.

Some of the students in Progress house may require an alternative curriculum, alongside the mainstream curriculum. The Progress house team deliver bespoke interventions and support students to access all mainstream lessons. However at times students may remain in small groups within progress house, supported by specialist Learning Support Assistants.

You will take into account students’ special needs and ensure access to lessons and lesson content through appropriate clarification, explanations, equipment and materials.

You will bring experience of working with young people with complex Special Educational Needs; and an understanding of effective approaches to supporting them.

Young people only get one chance at education so at Wilmslow High School we are committed to the pursuit of excellence for every student, every day. We do this through our dedication to learning, by being guided by values and in striving to serve.

We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.

If invited for interview, you will be:

- asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
- an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
- pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.

Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:

- disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
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- **Post**:Learning Support Assistant - Behaviour and Attendance AAAE5052

**Salary Scale**:Grade 5, Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure

**Purpose of Post**

To work:

- as part of the Progress Bases Team, undertaking a specialist role using relevant specialist expertise supporting students with an additional need who require specialised support with behaviour or attendance.
- with individuals and small groups under the supervision of a teacher or student/ bases manager
- collaboratively with teaching staff and other support staff in ensuring inclusive and effective Quality of Education for students with an additional need or who require specialised support with behaviour or attendance.
- across educational provision for additional needs in the school, including classroom and Bases provision
- in support of the principle that: all students deserve to experience meaningful learning success in the classroom including those with an additional need

**To whom responsible**

Progress Bases Lead

**Principal Duties**

**In relation to students**
- To develop an informed and current understanding of the additional needs of student particularly where related to behaviour or attendance
- To build and maintain strong relationship with students including removing barriers to attendance and progress
- To build students’ motivation, confidence and self-efficacy generally but particularly where related to behaviour or attendance
- To encourage students in preparation for adult life and ambitious outcomes and destinations
- To support the implementation of additional need plans includ