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Role: Learning Support Assistant
Hours: 17.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year. Fixed until 31st August 2025.
Salary: £10,051.92 (£24,790 FTE).
Closing Date: Midday on Thursday 28th November 2024.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, caring and hard-workingLearning Support Assistantto join our team at Barnes Farm Primary School. The post is for 5 days a week (17.5 hours) Monday to Friday: 8.45am - 12.15pm. This post will be a fixed term contract ending on 31st August 2025. We are a good school seeking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant with a "can-do" attitude who is committed to raising standards for those they work with. You will need to have an ability to work flexibly and with enthusiasm. You will work in partnership with class teachers and the SENCO, to support learning in line with the National Curriculum, codes of practice, school policies and procedures.
The successful candidate should have the following:
Experience of supporting children in a school setting
Strong behaviour management skills
Able to support the child's medical needs and willing to deal with intimate care needs
Knowledge of successful strategies to engage pupils with specific and significant needs
Is able to demonstrate patience, calmness and flexibility at all times
A commitment to high achievement from pupils and themselves
Excellent organisation and inter-personal skills
Good standard of education: Maths and English GCSE grades A-C or equivalent
Good knowledge of ICT
Flexibility and a good sense of humour
The ability to use their own initiative
Willing to undertake training and support individual needs.
Our friendly team will support you and training will be provided. Please look at our school's celebration video on the 'Our School' tab of our school website'www.bf-primary.com. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Zanya Farmer, Headteacher on 01245 467474 oradmin@bf-primary.com. The closing date for this vacancy is at Midday Thursday 28th November, with interviews scheduled for Tuesday 3rd December 2024.
The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual 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;
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 in this commitment.
As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. In line with recommended practice the school will conduct searches for information on shortlisted candidates which is publicly available on-line. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.