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Cherry Tree Academy - Learning Support Assistant
Required ASAP
We are looking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant to join Cherry Tree Academy in Colchester.
This position is for 24.5 hours per week, term time only. Working pattern Monday - Thursday 8.45am - 3.00pm, Friday, 8.45am - 2.30pm, this includes a 15-minute unpaid morning break and 1-hour lunchbreak.
Salary Scale 3 Point 5. Actual starting salary, £12,982 per annum.
Applicants should have experience working with children in a school environment. It is essential that you have GCSEs (grades A-C) in both Maths and English, or hold equivalent qualifications in this area.
Successful applicants will join our friendly, caring and highly competent team of learning support staff.
It is essential that the successful candidate can demonstrate the following:
- Enthusiasm to work with children with a variety of different personalities and skill levels.
- Able to engage well with pupils.
- Able to work under your own initiative.
- Smartly presented and with excellent time management skills.
We offer a supportive and enjoyable working environment with a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.
If you feel that you could be the person we are looking for, we would love to hear from you. Visits to our school are encouraged, please contact the school office on 01206 575224 to arrange an appointment.
Cherry Tree is a one-form entry primary school in Colchester, catering for children 4-11 years old and is part of Inspires Multi Academy Trust.
As a small school, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming and friendly place, where all pupils are supported to reach their full potential, both academically and as developing individuals within our close community.
The Cherry Tree team is made up of staff with a range of experience, who come together to form a hardworking and dedicated team, focused on ensuring that children have the best start to their education. We believe that when there are strong links between home, school and the wider community, children learn best.
Inspires Multi-Academy Trust are committed to:
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
- Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
- Promoting the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs;
and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.
It is recognised that this can only be achieved through sound procedures, good inter-agency co-operation and the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated employees who are suited to, and fulfilled in the roles they undertake.
The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.