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Learning Support Assistant

Learning Support Assistant

Southbank International School, Kensington

Notting Hill Gate, London

  • Expired
Salary:
From £11,925pa - £16,099pa (actual salary) depending on experience
Job type:
Part Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
Aug/Sept 2018
Apply by:
5 July 2018

Job overview

Job Role: Learning Support Assistant
Employment Type: 1 year Fixed term - Part Time (17.5hrs per week)
Location: Kensington Campus
Salary Range: £11,925pa - £16,099pa (actual salary)

Southbank International School is London's leading IB world school. With over 70 nationalities, our Kensington campus educates children from the ages of 3 – 11. We are looking for a support assistant to work one-to-one in class with an extremely lovely 7-year-old boy. The role will involve helping the student to focus on teaching and learning activities, and encourage participation. This will be a highly rewarding role in a supportive, friendly school. We are looking for a caring, thoughtful and positive person, someone flexible who is willing to follow directions but also able to use their own initiative. 

Required for 3.5 hours per morning, term time only and contracted for one academic year.

Please submit an application and covering letter explaining why you may be suitable for this position to: return to jobs@southbank.org Please note we do not accept CV’s for this role. Further details regarding the role can be found in the candidate brief.

The School is unable to offer Tier 2 sponsorship for this role. Please ensure that you already have the legal right to work and reside in the UK.

Closing date for applications 06 July 2018

Southbank International School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. Appointment is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for regulated activity and overseas police checks from any countries a candidate has lived or worked overseas for three months or more in the past ten years or completed their teacher training outside of the UK. 

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About Southbank International School, Kensington

About Southbank 

Southbank International School is a high achieving independent school based in central London. We aim to attract the best teaching and administrative staff, to maintain and build upon our successful reputation as a centre for excellent teaching and learning.Southbank is a truly international school with a diverse student population of more than 70 nationalities. The school is based over three campuses in the centre of London. We seek to appoint staff who have the willingness to recognise the diversity that exists in the student body, to teach from a multi-cultural perspective and to practise the highest standards of professionalism.We follow the International Baccalaureate curriculum and whilst previous experience with one or more of the programmes is an advantage it is not essential:


  • Primary Years Programme – Hampstead and Kensington (ages 3-11)
  • Middle Years Programme – Westminster (ages 11-16)
  • Diploma Programme – Westminster (ages 16-18/19)


Southbank prides itself on high standards, encouraging all students to make the most of their unique qualities and talents. Its central belief is that schools are an end in themselves as well as a means to progress into further education. Our aim is to put teaching and learning at the forefront of our mission to provide excellent services to the international community of students and teachers. The school has an exceptional teaching salary scale, and we endeavour to recruit teachers from across the world. Administrative and support staff are also offered competitive salaries and opportunities for career progression. 


About the Kensington campus

The Kensington campus offers the PYP for students ranging in age from 3 to 11 and also has children from a multitude of backgrounds. Kensington is relatively small with a close-knit community and is housed in two coverted mansion blocks in Notting Hill. Facilities at Kensington include a Mac-based IT Lab; a music room with a range of percussion instruments; a library/media room to support the PYP programme; a multi-purpose hall used for lunches, sport and concerts; a large garden with a climbing frame, sandpit and an array of equipment for children to use.


For further information about Southbank, including curriculum guides, school prospectus and inspection reports, please visit www.southbank.org.

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Applications closed