Support for Learning Assistant Senior School

**Salary**:
Actual salary for working 35 weeks term time

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

12 January 2025

**Job overview**:

- We are seeking to appoint a full-time Support for Learning Assistant to work in our Senior School. A background in and experience of supporting pupils with literacy and/or dyslexia would be advantageous._

**Application form**
- Application form

**Job information**
- Please note previous applicants need not apply._

**Salary**: The salary will be in the region of £21,500 - £24,000 (actual salary) depending on relevant skills and qualifications.

Hours of work: Full time hours, 36.25 hours per week; Monday to Friday (08:15 - 16:00)

Contract type: Permanent

Location: The Grove, Gosforth

**Benefits**:

- 35 weeks term time per year
- Employer pension contribution
- Excellent and easily accessible location from throughout the region
- Free parking available nearby
- Fee remission for children in the school in accordance with the staff fee remission policy
- Free staff lunches are available during term time in the school dining room
- Corporate Metro card scheme and cycle to work scheme

Job description:

- Support for Learning Assistant

**Newcastle School for Boys** is the only independent school in the north east of England providing continuity of education from age three to 18. We are passionate about boys’ learning and their development as young men of excellent character.

This is an excellent opportunity to build on the success of a successful and important department in an ambitious school. A contribution to the pastoral and lively co-curricular life of the School is expected.

Full details of the role’s responsibilities can be found in the job description.

To discuss any questions about the role, please contact Human Resources, on

How to apply

**_ The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment._**

**_ This post amounts to regulated activity._**

**_ The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children._**

For further information, please contact:
**About**Newcastle School for Boys**:
**Newcastle School for Boys**
- 34 The Grove, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne And Wear
- NE3 1NH
- United Kingdom

+44 191 255 9300

**Newcastle School for Boys**is the north east region’s only independent school providing education for boys only aged 3 to 18.

Following its formation in 2005 from founding schools Ascham House and Newlands School, Newcastle School for Boys is now one of the top independent schools in the North East. Located in the heart of Gosforth, Newcastle the School now sits as the only 3 to 18, boys-only school in the region.

At all points, the School aims to provide, in a supportive environment, an excellent learning experience for boys aged 3 to 18. Specifically, aiming to:

- challenge and support each boy to achieve the highest levels of individual academic progress;
- develop boys and young men of excellent character.

As one of the newest schools in the independent sector, Newcastle School for Boys incorporates traditional values whilst preparing all boys for the changing expectations and pressures of modern life.

The School is unique, not only in being boy-focused and offering an education throughout a boy’s school life, but also in its size. Comparatively small in both class sizes and as an overall school, each boy who joins Newcastle School for Boys is well known to every member of staff, being treated and educated as an individual.

Many boys leaving the School go on to study at some of the most competitive universities, including Oxbridge and Russell Group institutions. Just as importantly, each boy’s individual talents and aspirations are recognised and supported with some old boys also going straight onto successful careers or playing top-flight, professional sport.

Outside of the classroom, boys are given the opportunity to bring their learning to life on a number of exciting educational and sporting trips, such as Science trips to Florida and CERN and sports tours to India and South Africa. Our boys are also encouraged to play their part within the community, whether through voluntary and charitable work or valuable work experience in some of the region’s most highly regarded organisations.

Pastoral care at Newcastle School for Boys is second to none. Boys are offered support with matters both within and outside of school to ensure they are prepared to face the many challenges of life. From their very first years until the day they leave the School, boys participate in a character education programme, developing