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Learning Support Assistant

Learning Support Assistant

Woking College

Woking, Surrey

Salary:
Actual pro rata salary: £16,591.25 pa for 35 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks per year) FTE £20,420 per annum, inclusive of fringe allowance
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
30 August 2022
Apply by:
6 June 2022

Job overview

The Role

Our Learning Support Assistants provide a vital role in supporting our students both in the classroom and on a one-to-one basis.  We are looking to expand our support team with an additional full-time member of staff to provide continuity for students’ support throughout the week.  Candidates must have good communication skills, both verbally and in writing, and have empathy and interest in helping young people fulfil their potential. Working hours for this term-time role will be 8.30am to 4.00pm, Monday to Friday, with an unpaid half hour for lunch. 

We are looking for an exceptional candidate. We expect high performance from all our staff, and are looking for an impressive individual to support our students. Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.  We look forward to welcoming an additional team member to join our friendly Learning Support department in our successful and growing College.  

Application Information:

Start Date:  30 August 2022

Hours: 35 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year), Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.00pm

Salary:   Actual pro rata salary: £16,591.25 pa for 35 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks per year)
FTE £20,420 per annum, inclusive of fringe allowance

To Apply:  Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form via the College website.  CVs will not be accepted on their own.

Please ensure education and employment history are completed in full, gaps in employment must be accounted for under the section entitled “Periods when not working”.  We would like to see your passion for the role and the College in your supporting statement, please use this opportunity to include personal skills, experience relevant to the post, and reasons why you feel you would be successful if this post. 

Closing date: 9am, Monday 6 June 2022

Interviews:  to be held on the morning of Wednesday 15 June 2022

For further information or to return a completed Application Form, please contact:  Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: recruitment@woking.ac.uk

Important information:

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and successful applicants will be subject to Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.  The College is committed to equal opportunities.

The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2021 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.

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About Woking College

Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.

Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!

We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020.  A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.

We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.

With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.

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