Learning Support Assistant - One to One Keyworker Term time only
BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
Croydon
- Expired
- Salary:
- 17,464
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 27 August 2018
Job overview
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant responsible as a key worker for a student in Yr12 on a UAL Community Arts Practice Course. You would be key worker to a student with a visually impairments and assist with their Literacy and organisation needs and also their social and communication needs. This role as a key worker will look at maximising the student’s communication, creativity, thinking, physical learning and supporting his social and emotional skills.
In your key worker role you will be the main point of contact with all the agencies involved with the student this will ensure clarity of role and responsibilities and maintain high expectations. This will include, responsibility for working together with the family and with professionals from services and for ensuring delivery of an interagency care plan for the child and the family
You must have a genuine desire to improve the progress of the students with disabilities and of your key student in particular as you will be responsible for enabling their learning, promoting their independence and helping them achieve.
You will need to be a confident advocate, recognising the potential of the individual and championing their needs.
The Brit School runs a 5 Term academic year with some school holidays falling at different times to the usual Local Authority school breaks. Please see our web site for further details of our term dates.
Prior to taking up the post an enhanced DBS clearance will be required
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About BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
- BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
- 60 The Crescent, Croydon
- Surrey
- CR0 2HN
- United Kingdom
The BRIT School is Britain's only FREE Performing Arts and Technology School. It is an independent, state funded school, the only one of its kind dedicated to education and vocational training for the performing arts, media, art and design and the digital technologies that make performance possible.
Creativity is crucial to the future of our economy and society. For over a quarter of a century, The BRIT School has successfully nurtured creative skills in students from every type of background alongside a robust and full academic curriculum. And it does so for free.
Young people who choose to come here are given the tools to carve out their career, the space to think and the environment to be themselves. This is a playground with professional boundaries where the raw talent of 14–19 year old meets the nurturing expertise of world-class teachers.
The BRIT School revolutionises the lives of its students; 99% of all students who have graduated find work in a huge range of creative industries, or enrol for higher education. We are proud to be a Croydon school and equally proud to have national and international friends who support the school with professional and unique opportunities. As the Good School Guide articulates, “You’ll find BRIT graduates’ words, music, performance, directorial and backstage talents just about everywhere you look, from fashion shows to musicals, national theatre to community arts, in the UK and internationally.” This is a hardworking, fun, passionate school packed with dedicated individuals who love the creative and performing arts and recognise the importance of a thorough and robust education in all subjects. We believe in developing well rounded, articulate, kind and dynamic young people.
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