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Learning Support Assistant

Learning Support Assistant

King Alfred School

Barnet

Salary:
£17,075.00 per annum (FTE £23,159.00)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
To start immediately
Apply by:
2 November 2021

Job overview

Full time (36 hours per week / 5 days per week)

Term time only 

Fixed term contract until 15 July 2022

The King Alfred School is looking for a talented and compassionate Learning Support Assistant to provide academic and pastoral support within both 1:1 and classroom-based settings for a student with an EHCP.

The ideal candidate will be sensitive, empathetic, and have experience of working with students with ADHD profiles. They will have an understanding of the social and emotional needs that can also be associated with this learning profile.

Working with Upper School Teachers and the Upper School SENCO, the key duties of this role will include:

  • Attending classes with the student and support by encouraging focus and social success
  • Pro-actively help to build and then monitor the student’s emotional security and liaise with school pastoral staff and parents when necessary
  • The capacity to deliver structured interventions as applicable is desirable.

Please see the attached job info pack for a detailed description of the duties involved in this role, as well as a person specification of our ideal candidate. 

If you share our vision and are a reflective, hard-working, and forward-thinking professional, we would very much like to hear from you.  

Closing date: Midday, Tuesday 2 November 2021

The King Alfred School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. 

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website or at Unlock.

Attached documents

About King Alfred School

King Alfred School is an informal independent day school situated on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London. With over 700 students from Reception age through to a flourishing Sixth Form, we are a vibrant and friendly community where the emphasis, both academically and socially, is on discovering and maximising the potential of each child.

The school stands out from the prevailing educational environment as a school which achieves academic success without unnecessary pressures and social success through the development of relationships and responsibility rather than external discipline. At the heart of our ethos is a child-centred approach. We appreciate that every child is unique, and we get to know every individual.  It is a school that is genuinely loved by students, parents and staff alike.

The village green setting of the main school site contributes to the community feeling with Lower School classrooms all opening out directly onto the play areas, parents encouraged to spend time in the grounds and all children offered opportunities for outdoor learning. Most children will join at Reception and continue on to the Sixth Form.  Transition from Lower to Upper School is a natural one and for KAS students does not depend on assessments or examinations.

KAS is divided into two parts (Lower School: Reception to Year 6 and Upper School: Year 7 to 13), but we operate as one school in which all parts belong to a whole. Age groups are encouraged to mix, with Upper School students helping out in Lower School, and so enrich each other’s lives.

We offer a wide curriculum with specialist teachers in Lower School covering subjects outside the core areas: Information Technology, French, Art, PE and Music. In the Upper School GCSE studies include six core subjects and three optional subjects and students all take part in Choice afternoon where they can choose from a range of non-academic activities. At Sixth Form students usually take three A levels and we offer a full range of subjects alongside the UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing Arts & Production Arts and The Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). All students are also involved in a wide range of enrichment activities and there is a huge variety of after school clubs available.

The King Alfred School is a happy, compassionate school in which the emotional, physical and social development of our students are held in equal regard to their academic progress.

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