Learning Support Assistant
St Elizabeth's School
Bishop's Stortford
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- £13,575 - £16,437
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 20 December 2018
Job overview
Learning Support Assistants (LSA)
Level 1 - £13,575 - £14,696 per annum
Level 2 - £15,034 - £16,437 per annum
36 hours per week, term time only
Here at the St Elizabeth's Centre we manage a specialist School for children and young people aged 5 – 19, located within 68 acres of beautiful parkland between the towns of Harlow and Bishops Stortford. We exist to provide our students with an educational experience that will not only extend their academic skills and abilities, but will also promote personal growth and help to build self esteem.
Everyday we carry out immeasurably worthwhile and rewarding work that although at times is challenging, continually enhances the lives of the young people that attend our school. Due to an increase in student numbers for the new academic year an exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and committed Learning Support Assistants to join our dedicated team.
Your responsibilities as a Learning Support Assistant will include:
- Assisting with the development and implementation of individual education/behaviour plans & personal care programmes
- Helping to provide a specific and targeted curriculum through various strategies both in and out of the classroom
- Supporting pupils/students to achieve learning goals
- Promoting independence.
- Preparing, maintaining & using resources/equipment to meet lesson plans
You will be expected to demonstrate a willingness to support pupils/students who can display challenging behaviours and help to manage this in a positive way. You will need to have good literacy and numeracy skills and be able to communicate well with both children and adults. A commitment to equality and diversity, safeguarding and upholding the values and ethos of the Centre is essential.
Experience of working within a special needs environment is desirable but not essential. A relevant qualification is not required for Level 1 LSA, but essential for Level 2 LSA, e.g. Level 3 SSTLiS or equivalent. You will be working Monday to Friday, 39 weeks per year.
We offer a range of staff benefits including:
- High Street retail/leisure discounts
- Discounted gym membership
- Free on-site parking facilities
- On-site subsidised canteen
- Life assurance
- Enhanced DBS paid for by us
- Contributory pension
Closing Date: 20 December 2018 Interview Dates: TBC
*We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier in the event that we receive sufficient applications
Please note we are not on a public transport route.
For further information about St Elizabeth’s please see the Job Description
Offers are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.
Registered Charity 1176777 Equal opportunities employer
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About St Elizabeth's School
Welcome
St Elizabeth's School is a Specialist School for young people aged 7 - 19 years. We offer a warm, welcoming, safe and secure environment for children from all over the UK.
We are more than just an epilepsy school!
The School is a centre of expertise in supporting and educating young people with moderate or severe learning difficulties (MLD/SLD), profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) or other complex neurological conditions potentially caused or complicated by epilepsy. Our Multi-Disciplinary Teams, in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, equip the School to serve a wide range of complex needs such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), language and communication needs or challenging behaviours.
As either a residential or day pupil, every young person we welcome to our School is unique and valued. Our integrated care, therapeutic and academic provision is planned around the individual and delivered through a seamless, coordinated and consistent waking day curriculum, either in the classrooms or in our residential accommodation, available all year round.
Supporting pupils to make progress and develop independence skills is at the heart of everything we do, providing a safe and caring environment in which they can achieve their fullest potential.
St Elizabeth’s maintains as a Roman Catholic School, but we are fully inclusive and welcome children from all faiths or of no religion. Religious Education and our Christian ethos is taught by all teachers, and supported by our Catholic Ethos Advocate. Our Centre chapel is used frequently for Mass and our many prayer rooms give anyone the opportunity for quiet reflection throughout the day. If they choose, children can be prepared to receive their First Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Ethos, Aims & Values
Weekly assemblies form the focus of our Religious Education, with all children being given the opportunity to organise and participate on a regular basis. All assemblies begin with the whole school sharing our core value statement: ‘To live and learn as friends together. To Share and Give and Love.’
Our Aims for Young People
At St Elizabeth’s each young person will have the opportunity to live and learn in a safe and nurturing environment where differences are acknowledged, respected and valued – where abilities are recognised and achievement is celebrated.
- To know and feel that they are safe.
- To be able to access a full and meaningful education through a curriculum that is adapted to individual learning profiles.
- To promote an understanding of children’s rights and advocacy services, assisting children to make choices and communicate their needs.
- To be able to achieve to their full potential.
- To have access to excellent health and therapy care which enables them to enjoy varied life experiences and retain a good level of general well being.
- To reduce barriers to living ordinary lives as much as possible.
- To live and learn in an emotionally supportive environment which promotes their development as a young person.
- For children receiving residential care to live in youthful and fun houses which offer a sense of security and belonging.
- To be empowered and facilitated to make informed choices about their own lives.
- To become as independent as possible.
- To be able to learn from experience.
- To be provided with the best quality of life possible in relation to their needs.
- To be included in their own and local community as much as they are able.
- To be prepared for a transition into adult provision or alternative learning services as and when appropriate.
Head Teacher: Mrs Lisa Tooley
More information about our School can be found on our website www.stelizabeths.org.uk or by contacting us on 01279 844451
Registered address: St Elizabeth’s Centre, South End, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6EW
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