Learning Support Assistant
Holland Park School
Kensington and Chelsea
- £23,000 - £25,000 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Circa £23,000 - £25,000 pa (pro rata for term time only and paid over 12 months per year)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 15 August 2022
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant (LSA) for September 2022. The role can be a great platform for experience, especially for candidates who are exploring a career in education. This opportunity may also be attractive for job-seekers who are looking to change their professional focus and want to apply their industry skills and knowledge into education.
The most important aspect of this role is that the successful candidates will have an intuitive ability to connect with vulnerable students and meet their needs in order for them to progress socially and academically. Students supported by LSA’s have a range of needs, some with complex social and emotional difficulties alongside difficulties with their core academic skills and cognitive functioning. Other students have high academic skills but struggle to understand social norms and struggle with their emotional regulation. It important that whoever is appointed in this role has great inter-personal skills, works in an organised fashion with great communication within a team and independently and models high expectations academically as well as having positive social relationships in order for our young people to have those role models with people they connect with in school.
What Holland Park School Offers
Our Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) Team is an incredibly valued part of our School. We know how much our students benefit from the one-to-one support our LSAs provide them, both in and outside of the classroom. For some students, the bonds they form with their key workers is crucial to their educational and emotional development and in some cases, can make a real difference to the experience they have here at Holland Park School.
This role offers you the chance to work creatively with staff and students to focus specifically on promoting the inclusion of SEND students across the school whilst also delivering support to meet individual needs. You will have the opportunity to get involved in many enrichments and wider-school activities, all of which are designed to expand our student’s education far wider than what they learn in the classroom.
What you offer Holland Park School
We are looking for someone who has the ability to motivate and inspire students to achieve their best. You will bring enthusiasm and creativity to the role so that students, across all abilities, develop a love of learning despite the challenges they face. The ideal person will be an inclusive positive role model to our young people, exhibiting articulate communication, be an organised professional and committed to supporting disadvantaged students to achieve their best.
The role is being offered on a term-time contract.
Attached documents
About Holland Park School
Leaders and teachers at Holland Park believe in the value of detailed planning, of creative, exciting, distinctive lesson ideas that seek not merely to be functional journeys through subject matter, but transformative learning experiences. They know that successful learning is not possible without rigorous and thorough methods of assessment. Teachers recognise that behaviour management is rooted in quality relationships within the context of firm boundaries, students need to believe that teachers take warm and genuine interest in them. Emotional intelligence, warmth and sensitivity is central to this post. Our work in culturing a motivated and committed workforce has been recognised in the award of IIP platinum (2020).
Our employees are the most important resource in the school and we take our appointments very seriously indeed. At the same time, we also know that applicants are making a choice and that when leaders and teachers share the ethos of a school, learning is most powerfully and successfully supported.
Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.