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Learning Support Assistant

Learning Support Assistant

Nailsea School

North Somerset

  • Expired
Salary:
Actual Salary £12,036
Job type:
Part Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
ASAP
Apply by:
21 January 2022

Job overview

Learning Support Assistant

(fixed term appointment for until 21 July 2022)

Grade 14 – 27.5 hrs per week

Actual Salary £12,036pa Term Time only plus 3 INSET days

Would you like to be part of an expanding SEND provision for students with Additional Educational Needs? There’s never been a better time to join the fantastic team here at Nailsea School, with recent investment, we are the first secondary school in North Somerset to offer a formal resource base for students with higher functioning Autism.

Nailsea School strives to achieve excellence for all students through outstanding teaching and learning and is offering an exciting new opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Learning Support Assistant to join our SEND team.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and professional person, who will be responsible for delivering an effective, high quality additional learning support service. The role is designed to support the academic, personal, social and emotional development of students in our mainstream curriculum. The successful applicant will provide in class 1:1 support and deliver specific interventions, working under the direction of the SENDCo.

Nailsea School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical check and satisfactory references.

Closing date for applications is 9:00am Friday 21 January 2022 - Interviews will be week commencing 24 January 2022.

Please complete our application form which can be found on our school website www.nailseaschool.com, under ’Join us’ Support Staff Application detailing skills and experience, to be emailed to LCoombs@nailseaschool.com by 9:00am on Friday 21 January 2022.  Should you have any questions regarding this role please phone 01275 866799.



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About Nailsea School

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Our School

Nailsea School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form. Situated less than 10 miles from Bristol it enjoys the benefits of a small town whilst being on the doorstep of one of the U.K.’s most prosperous, vibrant and creative cities. Nailsea School is a community that demonstrates a common purpose - to ensure the very best for each and everyone of their students.

At Nailsea School all students are valued and each individual is encouraged to be the best version of themselves: to Aspire, Believe and Succeed.

The Whole Child 

The change from childhood to adulthood can be challenging and we believe that confidence, happiness and strong communication skills form the foundations for success. Our in-school pastoral team advise and nurture the whole child, offering support with social skills, peer problems, anxiety, home or academic issues. Experts in safeguarding, counselling and mentoring work alongside our Heads of House and tutors to support students well-being. The House structure’s vertical tutor groups integrate year groups and encourages peer to peer learning and support. This leads to strong friendships, confident relationships between groups and a comfortable family base from which students thrive. Feedback from a dynamic student voice programme connecting the whole school, reveals students to be happy and flourishing. We are proud of the behaviour of our students and visitors often remark on the studious, calm atmosphere within the school. Staff and students work together to ensure the effectiveness of rules and behaviour policies around the school create a fair and safe environment for all, with a focus on effort as well as achievement.

A Place for Everyone

Understanding that each child is different, Nailsea School has developed a range of inclusive ways to meet individual needs including a specialist learning centre within the school for students with specific educational needs and disabilities. The Hub is a place where children access a reduced mainstream timetable to improve literacy, numeracy and social skills. The low stress setting of The Hub, within the centre of the school, provides a nurturing environment through Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, and children using this area are encouraged to join in with mainstream life.

Teachers at Nailsea are skilled in adopting and responding to the learning needs of all students and there is also extra support in the form of dedicated Teaching and Learning Support Assistants within lessons for those who experience specific learning difficulties.

Our Facilities

Nailsea School was re-built in 2009 and the space speaks for itself; designed with students in mind, its free-flowing structure makes navigation easy and there is a sense of calm learning throughout the school. As well as benefiting from excellent sporting facilities, including an all-weather pitch, fantastic creative arts facilities with music, TV and art studios, and technology throughout the school, it has excellent ecological credentials. Students can visit the DEN area (Developing Engagement with Nature) where forest school principles are taught. Green technology has been developed throughout the school, the main heating source is through a biomass boiler, we have sensory lighting and use solar panels to heat our water and provide electricity for external lighting. Even the toilets use recycled greywater. Our carbon footprint is improving year on year and we recycle throughout the school.

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