Learning Support Assistant – One to One Support
Surbiton High School
Kingston upon Thames
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2016
Job overview
Job Purpose:
To provide one to one support to a specific pupil in the School environment, ensuring the educational and social needs of the pupil are met.
Tenure:
Full time, part year – Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week, Term Time (36 weeks)
This role will involve working 1:1 with a pupil in Year 2 at Surbiton High Boys’ Preparatory School in accordance with his Educational and Healthcare Plan. This will involve liaising with Occupational Therapy (OT) and Speech and Language Therapy (SLT), implementing a sensory diet throughout the school day, supporting literacy and mathematical skills in the classroom and providing support outside the classroom to facilitate positive interaction with peers.
Key Responsibilities:
Follow work plans approved by the teaching staff, provide direct support for the learning of an individual pupil, to achieve defined progression targets in their Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) and in class plans through:
- Activities, interventions, differentiation, empathetic and sympathetic listening, direct guidance and the provision of appropriate positive feedback to behaviour.
- Supporting the physical, emotional and educational development of the pupil.
- Supervising and encouraging safe behaviour of the individual and groups.
- Working with the pupil in accordance with the Education Health Care Plan.
Care and support - attend to the day to day needs of the child, inside and outside the classroom, by:
- Provision of personal, social, hygiene, welfare and behavioural support.
- Promoting effective pastoral care, under guidance, and liaising with colleagues to provide accurate records to provide the basis for home/school liaison and contacts with other agencies.
- Reporting concerns about progress, identifying solutions, to the teacher.
- Assisting with the assessment by the teacher of the individual pupil’s development through observation, creation and retrieval of records, discussion with colleagues and teachers to promote the social, emotional and behavioural standards defined by Surbiton Boys’ Preparatory School.
The successful candidate will be likely to fit the following profile:
- Demonstrable levels of numeracy & literacy
- Experience of working with children or young people in a paid/unpaid capacity.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Patient, empathetic and enthusiastic
- Sensitivity to the needs of others and the ability to exercise discretion and confidentiality
- Familiarity with the needs of pupils with learning differences would be an advantage, including:
- Attention difficulties/ADHD
- ASD
- Sensory Processing Issues
- Anxiety
- Understanding of the SEND Code of Practice 0-25 (2014)
For a full job description and to apply online please visit the following link: https://www.networxrecruitment.com/Jobs/Advert/518830
Closing date for Applications: 8:00am, Monday 5 December 2016
Interviews to be held week commencing: 5 December 2016
Please note that the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.
For any queries relating to the role or your application, please email recruitment@surbitonhigh.com
About Surbiton High School
- Surbiton High School
- 13-15 Surbiton Crescent, Kingston upon Thames
- Surrey
- KT1 2JT
- United Kingdom
Surbiton High School aims to inspire, encourage and empower its staff and pupils to be the very best they can be.
We are a school where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, where we look beyond the A* to offer a breadth of opportunity which allows every pupil to flourish and every staff member to develop and succeed.
Surbiton High School is a school “brimming with energy and joie de vivre.” (ISI Inspection Report). We pride ourselves on being an extraordinary community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. We feed our pupils’ minds, but we also care passionately about their character development and happiness. Our approach to education means that Surbiton High School pupils achieve the very best exam results and are also compassionate, authentic young people with strong values, keen to make a positive difference in the world.
Our inspirational staff are dedicated to delivering a rich curriculum and programme of co-curricular activities which challenge our pupils to explore ideas for themselves. Whether engaged in learning in the classroom, or through musical, artistic, sporting, enterprise or charitable activities, our pupils are constantly encouraged to connect with the wider world and embrace new experiences to build their confidence. All staff are expected and encouraged to play a full part in the academic, co-curricular and pastoral life of the School.
At Surbiton High School, we aim to bring out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and this resonates in the investment that we make in our colleagues. We recognise the importance of continuous learning and training and the School has a senior member of staff dedicated to supporting continuing professional development. We have a comprehensive whole School and individual INSET programme in place, including support for School Direct trainees as well as Newly Qualified Teachers (in our role as a regional NQT induction centre).
We actively encourage our staff to continue to develop their own expertise in the classroom and support their professional development through coaching and mentoring alongside professional qualifications such as: NPQML, NPQSL and MA courses in educational leadership. The School has a clearly developed leadership structure, offering extensive opportunities for career development and progression, including Heads of Department (Including Deputies) and Heads of Year (including Deputies) as well as Co-ordinators with specific responsibilities such as: Gifted and Talented, Oxbridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Expeditions.
Surbiton High School has approximately 1600 pupils aged between 4 and 18. Our Preparatory Schools are divided into the Girls’ Preparatory School and Boys’ Preparatory School, and the Senior School is girls only from age 11 upwards.
We are looking for applicants who are passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils and working with us to become the number one school of choice in South West London.
Acting Principal
Hannah Horwood
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