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HLSA required 1st March 2025.
25 hours per week, Scale 6 point 13-17, starting salary £15,875 per annum, working pattern Monday - Friday 8.45am-3.00pm, (1-hour lunch break), term time only.
We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic person, who believes in our core values and specific ethos to add value to our experienced and excellent team of Higher-Level Learning Support Assistants.
The successful candidate will be someone with experience of working, understanding and supporting children within an educational setting, demonstrate good teaching and learning skills, a commitment to team and collaborative working and able to display an innovative approach to education. They should thrive when working with children and have excellent communication skills.
It is essential that the successful candidate can demonstrate the following:
- A-C GCSE grades (or equivalent) in both Maths and English
- Enthusiasm to work with children with a variety of different personalities and skill levels.
- Experience within the Primary phase
- A strong, confident individual who can take control of a classroom.
- Able to engage well with pupils.
- Able to work under your own initiative.
- Smartly presented and with excellent time management skills.
We can offer:
- Wonderful children and families
- A very supportive staff team
- Personalised CPD via Performance Management
We offer a supportive and enjoyable working environment with a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.
Inspires MAT 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.
Appointment will be subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check.