Learning Support Assistant

Learning Support Assistant

Job details

**Posted**

16 December 2024

**Salary**

**£20,906.25**

**Enddate**

02-18-2025

**Location**

Stoke-on-Trent

**Job type**
- Permanent

**Discipline**
- Education

**Reference**

003147

Job description

**_How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*? Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent). If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG_**

**Job Title: Learning Support Assistant**

**Location: Glebedale School, Stoke-on-Trent**

**Salary: up to £20,906.25 per annum (not pro rata, pre-tax take home salary)**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday**

**Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only**

**UK Applicants only. This role doe not offer sponsorship.**

As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Learning Support Assistant to join our close-knit team at Glebedale School located in Stoke-on-Trent.

**Job Purpose**

To work as a Learning Support Assistant, providing support to the teacher pupils. In addition to agreed responsibilities of Learning Support Assistants and any reasonable direction from the Headteacher or member of the Senior Leadership Team the Learning Support Worker will:
**Main Tasks**
- To work with individual and small groups of pupils on educational activities.
- To assist teachers in developing and implementing individual educational programmes.
- To support individual and small groups of pupils across a broad and balanced curriculum.
- To prepare materials and equipment.
- To occasionally transport pupils home and on educational visits etc.

**To view the job description, please click here -**Learning Support Assistant JD**

**Job Activities**
- To record relevant educational, social and behavioural information within an agreed framework.
- To implement agreed individual educational/behavioural programmes.
- To promote the social and emotional development of pupils through positive approaches that will encourage appropriate relationships and the development of self-esteem.

**About us**

Glebedale School is a special needs school which provides provision for ages 7 years and upwards. We provide a nurturing and welcoming environment to SEMH pupils, and our curriculum has a keen focus on therapy, education and personal development. Our school aims to help pupils grow academically, socially and emotionally to enable them to become capable future citizens.

We provide education to 30 pupils from the Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire and Cheshire areas. At our last Ofsted in December 2022, we were rated “Good”.

We are part of Acorn Education and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career. Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running

**Why Join Acorn Education?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover
- Family Growth Support - _inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support._

Equal Opportunities

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