Learning Support Assistant (with Deputy DSL responsibilities)

Our Learning Support Assistant plays a pivotal role in supporting the success of our SEN students. The role would suit  an experienced LSA who has an interest in developing an additional specialism in safeguarding.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting SEN students on a 1:1 basis in the classroom.

• Providing targeted support for underachieving students outside the classroom.

• Work on differentiated activities with groups of students.

• Liaise with the Assistant SENDCO to deliver SEND provision.

• Developing social/emotional skills through targeted  SEN interventions (depending on individual need).

• Working with teachers to monitor progress of SEND students.

• Supervise allocated study spaces.

• Support safeguarding at LAET as Deputy DSL.

SEN support

• To provide in class support for SEND pupils; helping with understanding instructions, tasks, keeping them on track throughout the lesson, and supporting the teachers with improving their delivery of SEN teaching.

• To deliver a measurable impact on students receiving targeted SEND interventions.

• To model to all students, the habits that make effective and academically rigorous learners.

• Supporting the Assistant SENDCO in leading training and working with teaching staff to promote inclusive practice for SEND students. 

• Planning and delivering sessions relating to academic literacy, social and emotional skills, to support SEND students with skills such as time management and study skills.

• Working one-to-one with SEND students in order to improve and develop their understanding.

• Building positive relationships with parents and carers to ensure their engagement and support for students on the SEND register.

• To provide in-class support across a range of subject areas in order to:

• Understand our students’ academic/emotional/social needs;

• Support our teaching staff in developing techniques that enable students to learn effectively;

• Understand revision strategies, study skills, essay writing techniques and other subject specific guidance in order to continually give our students targeted support.

• To work alongside the Assistant SENDCO, SENDCO and Deputy Head (Pastoral) to identify and screen any students who present signs or symptoms of a special educational need.

• To work alongside our School Librarian to ensure that the library and other study spaces are focused, studious and calm.

Safeguarding

• To play an active role in the safeguarding team, in order to address the common overlap between vulnerable students and special educational needs.

• To attend weekly year-team safeguarding meetings.

• To act as a deputy DSL and be able to assign safeguarding cases in the absence of the senior safeguarding officer.

• To act as a key linked worker between the school and early help services.

Further information is available on the attached Job Description.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and proactively seek to recruit a diverse staff body.

The London Academy of Excellence Tottenham is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that this role ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Further information is available on the school’s website.