Lead LSA (ASD Resource Base)

Lead LSA  (38 weeks per year -191 days) 

'Steering our journey towards becoming the leading Art school in Lewisham and beyond with exceptional academic and pastoral provision inclusively for all.'

Want to work in a progressive school with creativity at its heart?  Want to join a school where professional development and staff voice are core to our everyday practice? 

Join us here at Deptford Green, an inner-city London school with diversity, creativity, and community as our core purpose. 

'Catch the wind in your sails, Explore, Dream Discover' - this is our school motto and it underpins our ethos and philosophy.  

So, if you are a dynamic and passionate professional who would like to be part of something special, apply today. 

The Resource Base

The Resource Base at Deptford Green is for Students with a diagnosis of ASD who are expected to spend at least 50% of their time in the mainstream school.

You will work with the Resource Base Lead to manage a team of LSAs who provide specialist support to those pupils both in the Resource Base and lessons and activities in the rest of the school.

The successful candidate will be able to manage a dynamic and sometimes challenging working environment. You will have experience working with students with ASD, and experience delivering support using ASD specific strategies and resources. You will also have sound knowledge of the support needs of students with ASD. 

Actual Salary: £25,193.27, Scale 6 point 18 (This includes the 1.75% support staff pay increase from 01.04.2022)

We look forward to meeting you.

To find out more about our school, please visit our website.

Additional information

Deptford Green School is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our young people. We will only recruit those who share this commitment and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the people selected are right for the job and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment. Please ensure that you complete your application fully. Any job offer will remain conditional until satisfactory completion of:               

• References (which will be sought prior to the interview)               
• Verification of past employment               
• Verification of any gaps in employment               
• Enhanced DBS check               
• Barred list check               
• Overseas criminal record check (if necessary)               
• Identity check               
• Right to work in the UK               
• Evidence of qualifications applicable to the role               
• Confirmation of accreditation with professional bodies where applicable               
• A satisfactory health check (if applicable)