Learning Support Assistant – Behaviour and Attendance

Salary: £18,992.19 to £20,243.04, Grade 5 Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure

Job start date:  ASAP    

Contract type: 32.5 hours per week, term time: 38.2 weeks per year

Contract term: Permanent

 Suitable for ECTs: N/a

Closing date:  Wednesday 26th February 2025 at 12 noon

 Interview date: TBC – Wc Monday 3rd March 2025

Wilmslow High School

School age range: 11-18

Number on roll: approx. 2,000 (including 500 sixth form)

This is a full-time (32.5 hours per week), term time (38.2 weeks per year) appointment.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Progress House Team. For information about this vacancy and others please see Learning Support Opportunities at Wilmslow High School below.

Salary at appointment will depend upon experience. If appointed at the entry-level salary, appropriate training will be offered to support pay progression.

In this job, you will work specifically in our Progress House Provision, supporting students with complex behavioural special Educational Needs.

The team is a significant part of the school. The team helps a large number of students with behavioural needs and Education, Health and Care Plans to be educated in a mainstream setting, with an emphasis on inclusion and growing independence. The work of the team encompasses the whole school and includes students in every year group and subject.

Some of the students in Progress house may require an alternative curriculum, alongside the mainstream curriculum. The Progress house team deliver bespoke interventions and support students to access all mainstream lessons. However at times students may remain in small groups within progress house, supported by specialist Learning Support Assistants.

You will take into account students’ special needs and ensure access to lessons and lesson content through appropriate clarification, explanations, equipment and materials.

You will bring experience of working with young people with complex Special Educational Needs; and an understanding of effective approaches to supporting them.

Young people only get one chance at education so at Wilmslow High School we are committed to the pursuit of excellence for every student, every day. We do this through our dedication to learning, by being guided by values and in striving to serve.

We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process. 

If invited for interview, you will be:-

• asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
• subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.

If successful, you will be subject to:-

• an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
• pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.

Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:

• disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
• whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns.