Permanent Learning Assistant

Banstead Preparatory School is a co-educational prep school and nursery, educating around 250 girls and boys aged 2-11. Set on the outskirts of the village of Banstead, Surrey, there are good transport links to London and the South East. 

Our state-of-the-art facilities enable us to offer the broadest range of opportunities as part of an engaging, innovative and exciting curriculum, helping us to set the highest possible ambition for every child, and get the best from everyone.

Education with character is the ethos that sits at the very heart of our school and forms the core of what we believe. There’s more to a good education than learning – we work to develop our children’s characters, build their tenacity, foster courage and above all, inspire them to achieve excellence.

Banstead Prep isn’t a feeder for any particular senior school, we work to help parents identify aspirational but realistic school choices. We prepare the children through broad curriculum teaching within the normal school timetable to ensure every child leaves us for their senior school of choice feeling valued, prepared, confident and ready to thrive.

Closing Date: 2 October 2022

Interviews: w/c 3 October

Actual Salary: £15,184

We are seeking an enthusiastic permanent Learning Assistant to join our team. This is a full-time, term time only role, however we have a holiday club where additional hours can be worked.

Reporting Line:            Deputy Head

Start Date:             31 October 2022

Term:                Permanent Contract 

Days/hours:               

Monday: 8.30am-4pm

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9am-5pm

Friday: 9am-5.30pm

Some afterschool duties are included in the above and a 30 minute unpaid break is included each day

Key Responsibilities

This job description indicates the range of duties involved and is not intended to be all-inclusive and requires the post-holder to be flexible and show initiative. The post holder may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the school.

Academic

• To directly support and facilitate learning in the classroom
• Work with individual pupils or groups of pupils to support their learning
• To foster interest and enthusiasm for learning amongst the pupils as well as encouraging a general spirit of intellectual enquiry and rigour
• Assist with recording observations on pupils as part of ongoing assessment e.g. reading records
• To model positivity and kindness
• To assist class teachers with the preparation and carrying out of all classroom activities

Pastoral

• To demonstrate the pastoral responsibility of all staff working with children
• To participate in the School’s programme for the personal and social development and promotion of wellbeing
• Under the guidance of the Headteacher, to promote the development and progress in the social, academic and co-curricular spheres of all the pupils in their care
• Assist with co-curricular clubs

General

• To uphold and enforce School rules and to work in cooperation with colleagues to promote the high standards of behaviour and concern for other that are part of the School’s tradition and purpose
• To attend meetings, curriculum sessions, INSET sessions and other such meetings as may be necessary for the discharge of teaching support, pastoral or other duties
• To undertake supervisory duties as requested
• To be fully aware of and to implement the School’s policy on Health and Safety
• To liaise with colleagues over all matters relating to pupil’s progress and wellbeing as appropriate
• To develop and maintain good working relationships with pupils, staff and parents
• To be available to offer support at evening activities such as school productions / parent evenings, as reasonably requested by SLT
• To undertake any other duties which SLT may reasonably request
• Additional responsibility could be available for Before and Afterschool care

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be likely to fit the following profile:

Skills and Experience

• Ability to work co-operatively within a team
• Flexibility and openness to change
• Proven ability to develop effective professional relationships and positive rapport with pupils, colleagues and parents
• Role model positivity and kindness
• Commitment to the personal development of pupils
• High levels of communication skills in English, both written and spoken, to enable effective communications with pupils, with colleagues and with pupils' parents
• Knowledge and the ability to support the coaching of a variety of sports

Qualifications

• Desired: PGCE/QTS/Level 3
• Qualified to teach and work in the UK

Personal Qualities

• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• High levels of personal and professional integrity
• High degrees of self-confidence, personal energy and dynamism
• Personal warmth, good rapport with pupils, colleagues and parents
• Appropriate levels of personal presentation
• The ability to see the best in everything
• Team player
• Flexibility

The full job description/person specification is attached. Please read for full details.

You must also have evidence of the right to work in the UK (i.e. Passport or working visa). 

Banstead Preparatory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as well as other relevant pre-employment checks including satisfactory references and medical clearance.