Learning Support Assistant

**Are you an experienced Learning Support Assistant, ready to make a move into a large secondary school to help make a really difference to SEN children?**

**Join our committed team of professionals at Lynn Grove**

**Academy**

**Job Title**:Learning Support Assistant

**Salary**:NJC Point 3 £10,891 actual (£24,027 fte)

**Start date**:Easter 2025

**Contract type**: Permanent

**Working Pattern**: Part time 19.5 hrs per week

**About our School**:
At Lynn Grove, we put learning at the heart. Our teachers constantly develop their practice to ensure our pupils have the best possible learning journey. We value academic rigour and teach our pupils to challenge themselves and persevere. We want our young people to fully embrace school life. Our incredible pastoral system ensures they are cared for and known as individuals. We offer a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities to enrich their school experience and allow them to flourish.

**About the SEN Department**:
Our care for children who require additional support to make good progress is personalised and flexible. We work closely with the young people and their families who experience particular challenges at school. Our SEN department is led by our SENCO, who is supported by a team of experienced, well-qualified and specialist learning support assistants.

We believe in nurturing pupils and guiding them towards ever increasing independence at the pace that is right for them. We work with primary schools and parents from year 5 to establish an individualised approach that ensures a smooth transition to secondary school. We customise our induction process for every child with additional needs so that everyone gets off to a confident start. As our pupils prepare to for the next stage of their education we plan equally carefully so that they continue to be successful.

For children who feel they would benefit, we offer nurture support during the school day, after school with home work and during the holidays.

Excellent teaching meets the needs of all the learners in the class and our teachers understand their responsibility to ensure that every child makes good progress. We have access to good quality training and expert guidance from a range of specialist practitioners.

As a school community we celebrate each others’ differences and support each other to progress. We are justifiably proud of our pupil mentors who work to assist our children through the transition to high school and on a day to day basis in school.

**About You**:

- Have successful recent experience as a Teaching Assistant
- Demonstratable knowledge and understanding of effective behaviour management strategies and the ability to put these into practice
- Experience of devising strategies to support children.
- Good Written and spoken communication.

**About Creative Education Trust**:
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 13,500 children and young people.

We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.

**CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development**:
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.

**Next Steps**

**Application Closing Date: 23 February 2025**

**Interview Date: TBC**

**Essential Information**:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £10,891.00 per year

Expected hours: 19.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Work Location: In person