Learning Support Assistant
Ellingham Hospital and School
Norfolk
- Expired
- Salary:
- £16,500 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 April 2019
Job overview
Learning Support Assistant (£500 bonus)
Ellingham School, East Anglia,Ellingham Road, Attleborough, Norfolk NR17 1AE
Permanent - Full Time
£16,500 per annum
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday term time only)
Because we want you to get off to the best start with us we are giving you an extra £250 to you when you first start with us, and then when you are settled in in 6 months’ time we will give you an extra £250 for your hard work.
We are searching for a talented Learning Support Assistant to be a key member of our team, providing standards of person-centred support and care to our service users. As a Learning Support Assistant, you'll build good relationships with service users and their families.
Ellingham School Hospital offers an integrated programme of education and therapy for young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties, compounded by complex learning difficulties such as Autism, Attachment Disorder and Mixed Neuro Developmental Disorders.
The role of Learning Support Assistant is to assist in providing the best possible environment in which the educational support and developmental needs of individual learners can be met. Energy and initiative is vital experience, however is not essential providing you have a willingness to learn and the compassion and patience needed to support.
It is our intention that every pupil will achieve their full potential in both academic and personal development, take up new challenging goals and work hard to achieve them.
What we’d like from you:
- The ability to build positive relationships with young people who have already experienced several school settings unsuccessfully
- Patience, enthusiasm, resilience, initiative and kindness are useful qualities
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective organisational capability
- Great team player
- Flexibility to respond to the changing needs of those who we support
- Strong “can do” attitude
What we’d like to give you:
- A competitive salary
- Enhanced disclosure cost coverage
- Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing training
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Online benefits and cashback rewards
- Cycle to work scheme
- SMART Pension option
*Candidates referred by an agency or other 3rd party may not be eligible for the joining bonus
We want to invest in you and your future! Find out about our career pathways:
https://www.priorycareerpathways.com/
References
For all roles we require a minimum of two references. References provided must cover the last 3 years, or you are applying to work within our Children’s Homes we will need to request all references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults.
Please be advised that references will be requested prior to interview for all roles within our schools.
About us
From education to hospitals, care homes and secure facilities, the Priory Group of Companies offers individually tailored, multidisciplinary treatment programmes for those with complex educational needs or requiring acute, long-term and respite mental healthcare.
Disclosure
Priory Education Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and disclosures with the relevant body at an enhanced level. We are an equal opportunities employer.
About Ellingham Hospital and School
- Ellingham Hospital and School
- Ellingham Road, Attleborough
- Norfolk
- NR17 1AE
- United Kingdom
School Profile
Oakview is a child and adolescent in-patient service that provides a safe and secure environment for young people with complex mental health needs. Many of the young people are treated under The Mental Health Act; all have special educational needs including emotional and behavioural needs, language and developmental delays, specific learning difficulties and/or disorders such as ADHA and Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
The service has two hospital sites, one in the London Borough of Bromley at St Mary Cray (Oakview London) and the other in Attleborough, a small town in Norfolk (Oakview East Anglia).
Oakview London provides low secure accommodation primarily for young people detained under the Mental Health Act. Oakview East Anglia provides similar accommodation primarily for young people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours. The two independent hospitals provide a specialist service for NHS England patients.
As residential hospitals for young people aged from 12 – 18 yearswe are required to provide education on site in a school that is Ofsted compliant.There is a structured hospital timetable on each site that includes attending school during term times. The teaching staff are responsible for managing the curriculum but have the opportunity to use the expertise ofeach hospital’s multi-disciplinary team and work collaboratively with the doctors, nurses, psychologists, speech& language therapists and occupational therapists.
Oakview School
Oakview School has been registered as a company limited by guaranteed (a not-for-profit company). The school hasapplied to the Department for Education for registration as an independent school and is also applying for charitable status.
The school is a complex organisation with an Assistant Headteacher responsible for the day-to-day management of Oakview School East Anglia and a Headteacher based at OakviewSchool London who oversees and supports the Assistant Headteacher, visiting the school at Oakview East Anglia as required. There is a designated teaching team for each school site.
Each site offers its own discrete school facilities. The site in London is currently under major redevelopment and a new school building will be available for use from early 2014. Oakview London will increase its capacity from 18 to 40 beds and the school will expand and develop accordingly. There are similar plans to develop Oakview East Anglia which currently has 25 bedsbut will increase to 40 beds. Oakview School East Anglia consists of classrooms on each ward and a detached school building within the hospital grounds.
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