Learning Support Teacher
Davenies School
Buckinghamshire
- £30,000 - £40,000 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- dependent upon qualifications and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2020
- Apply by:
- 9 April 2020
Job overview
We are looking for a pragmatic and diligent specialist teacher to join our growing Learning Support Department on a permanent and full-time basis from September 2020. The Learning Support Teacher will assist in the identification of pupils with learning difficulties, ensuring that their needs are met through 1:1 lessons or in small groups, and promoting a better understanding of these difficulties across the school.
Principal Responsibility Areas
- To assist in the identification of pupils with learning difficulties
- To ensure the needs of all pupils with learning difficulties are met
- Responsibility for meeting the needs of boys on the Learning Support Register
- Communicating and advising staff and parents of the needs of boys with learning difficulties
Key Tasks
- Ensuring that adequate provision is made for pupils with learning difficulties
- Assisting in ensuring that coherent links are maintained throughout the school with regard to pupils with learning difficulties
- Ensuring IEPs and Provision Maps are written where appropriate and kept up to date
- Liaising with Form Teachers and subject teachers over pupils with learning difficulties
- Meeting regularly with parents of pupils with learning difficulties
- Writing reports on pupils with learning difficulties
- Taking part in departmental meetings as required by the Head of Department
- Work closing with the Head of Department and other Learning Support staff to ensure departmental policies are met, and records and resources kept and updated
- Attending relevant training courses
Additional Duties
- To take on supervisory duties during the normal school week
- To cover for absent colleagues
- To accompany day trips on occasion
All staff are expected to demonstrate individual responsibility to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children and young people.
Qualifications, Training and Experience
- The candidates should have attained QTS and will be expected to hold a degree
- Previous experience of working with children in a similar environment and role is essential
- Qualification or training in specific learning support specialisms, and a thorough knowledge of current good practice and legislation is essential
- Level 5 qualification in SpLD/dyslexia is the minimum requirement; whilst Level 7 with the ability to carry out standardised testing is preferable
- The Applicant should be keen and willing to attend both in-house and external training or courses to further their skills and professional development
- The successful Applicant will be required to complete child protection training online (arranged by the school) before they commence the role, where they have not already received training in the past two years
Competences and Qualities
The successful applicant will:
- have a warm personality, be approachable, sensitive and knowledgeable
- be an excellent communicator with children and adults alike
- be able to work as part of the school team
- be highly organised with excellent ICT skills, and experience of using a school management system such as iSAMs
- be proactive, pragmatic, energetic and diligent
- enjoy working with children
- be able to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children
- possess emotional resilience in working with children and to be able to maintain discipline
- have very clear ideas about what good teaching looks like and how our staff can serve the needs of the boys
Candidates will be able to demonstrate qualities expected of someone working with children and young people.
To apply for this position, please submit a Davenies’ Support Staff Application Form with a cover letter for the attention of the Headmaster by 10am on Wednesday 18 March at the latest. Applications will be considered on receipt with priority given to early applicants and interviews scheduled before the end of the Lent Term.
Attached documents
About Davenies School
Davenies is a day preparatory school for boys between the ages of 4 and 13 where the boys are happy, curious, enthusiastic and kind.
Aims of the School - Our ethos and philosophy encourages the boys to make the most of their preparatory years supported by high quality pastoral care, a broad and stimulating curriculum and numerous extra-curricular opportunities. We value Sport, Drama, Music, Art and Design, and believe that by fostering a wide range of interests and passions we provide the boys with every opportunity to grow in confidence. We strive for each boy to discover and develop what he enjoys as well as cultivating his perseverance, determination and confidence to tackle the areas where he may be less adept. Enterprises such as the unique Davenies Award Scheme and the permeation of mobile computing in our teaching and learning ensure we offer a truly independent educational experience.
The Learning Experience - At Davenies, our excellent facilities support us in providing a positive learning experience with our own language of learning that nurtures each boy's understanding of how he learns. Technology, modern teaching styles and a commitment to independent learning complement our traditional values. We encourage respectful, tolerant behaviour; politeness and good manners. Davenies boys are friendly and thoughtful with their own distinct characters, personalities, interests and passions and they progress on to some of the best senior schools in the country. We seek to find the potential in each boy at Davenies, whether in Maths, French, Music or outside the classroom walls. Our extra-curricular programme is as varied as it is fun and offers innumerable opportunities for boys to be involved before, during and after school. Learning something new, honing an existing skill or enjoying some recreational time with friends – there is something for everyone. From Fencing to French Rap, Lego to LAMDA, Cubs to Conservation, and Podcasting to Photography, our own staff offer the boys nearly 50 extra-curricular activities each term.
Safeguarding - Davenies is committed to providing the best possible care and education to its pupils and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people whilst offering a supportive and flexible working environment to all its members of staff. The School recognises that, in order to achieve these aims, it is of fundamental importance to attract, recruit and retain staff of the highest calibre who share this commitment. Child protection screening applies to all staff appointments within the school, including Enhanced DBS Certificate, Barred Lists check, and checks against the Teacher and Management Prohibition Lists.
Staff - With over 80 employees, the body of Teaching Staff and Teaching Assistants are supported by a team of office staff, a site team led by the Facilities Manager, and a dedicated School Nurse. Catering and cleaning are outsourced, with external contract staff working onsite to provide term-time services. In addition, the School hosts a range of visiting music, LAMDA and extra-curricular activity tutors. In addition to a competitive salary, staff can expect to benefit from discretionary school fee remission awards, iPads for teaching staff, membership of group pension scheme, and complimentary school dinners and refreshments.
Facilities - Centred around a Grade II Listed Farmhouse, the school comprises a mix of traditional and modern buildings, with the latest, the RIBA award-winning Jubilee Building housing the Pre-Prep and Junior School, having been completed in September 2015. With purpose-built drama, design & technology and IT amenities, amongst many other subjects, the school is renowned for its sporting facilities, including an indoor swimming pool, sports hall, astro-turf and sports pitches.
Location - Situated midway between the Old and New Towns of Beaconsfield in South Bucks, there are excellent transport links with a direct train line into London just 5 minutes’ walk from the School, and Junction 2 of the M40 just a few minutes away.
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