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Learning Support Assistant SEN

Learning Support Assistant SEN

Park School

Chipping Norton Oxfordshire

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Salary:
£15,056.96 - £17,090.72 per annum, depending on experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
27 June 2019

Job overview

Options Higford is a DfE registered school and OFSTED rated children’s home offering a purpose built service specially designed to meet the educational and development needs of the children in our care. Set in 28 acres of rolling Shropshire countryside, we provide a caring, structured and homely environment for our children. We are within commuting distance of Shifnal, Telford, Dudley, Stourbridge, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Cannock, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Stone, Stoke and surrounding towns.

Job Summary and Duties

As a Learning Support Assistant, your role will involve providing education to children and young people with Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and associated difficulties, the role of Learning Support Assistant focuses on developing independent life skills through individually designed programmes.

This role is offered on a permanent, full time basis, working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday)  term time only. The salary scale listed above is based on 40 hours per week.

Following a thorough induction and training programme, your duties would include:

  • Supporting the class teacher/tutor in order to ensure the delivery of a high quality education for all students
  • Providing relevant support and appropriate support to students, on an individual or group basis, in order to enable them to access the curriculum as independently as possible.
  • Working collaboratively with the class teacher to adequately plan to ensure the safety of students, in line with risk assessments, while both on and off site.
  • Working with and manage challenging behaviour

Key Skills Required

  • Experience of working with autistic spectrum disorders and/or challenging behaviour’s.
  • Experience of work within an education/residential setting.
  • Ability to work as part of a team or independently.
  • Clear and concise written and verbal communication 

Please apply online now or call 01952 630 600 for further information.

Outcomes First Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone in our care and therefore this post is subject to an enhanced DBS check where suitable references will be sought prior to your employment start date.

Interviews will be held on 8/7/2019 & 11/7/2019

Please note, we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of suitable applications.

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About Park School

  • Park School
  • Southcombe, Oxford, Chipping Norton
  • Oxfordshire
  • OX7 5QH
  • United Kingdom
+44 160 864 4621

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Park School is an independent specialist day school for boys and girls aged from 7 to 18, catering for children with a wide range of social, emotional and mental health needs. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life.

We pride ourselves in steering children in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them both academically and socially to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build confidence in our students, so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live. 

We offer an education which exposes pupils’ to a broad, balanced, differentiated and relevant curriculum, presents them with challenges in which creativity is fostered and which is based on the essential elements of the National Curriculum.

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