Learning Support Assistant Level 2
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Working Pattern:
Part time - term time plus specified days
Advert Start Date:
07/03/2025
Advert End Date:
21/03/2025 09:00
Salary:
Grade F (Points 7 - 8) £17,922 - £18,207 actual salary range
Job Category:
Schools - Teaching Assistant
Employment Location:
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Further Information
Learning Support Assistant Level 2
Maternity Cover – Until at least October half term 2025
Grade F (Points 7 - 8) £17,922 - £18,207 actual salary range
30 hours a week, term time plus 5 staff development days
To start at earliest opportunity
Huntcliff School is a popular school sharing a site with Saltburn Primary School on a joint learning campus. We wish to appoint a suitably qualified Learning Support Assistant to a very busy, successful team. At this time the school has 5 Learning Support Assistants who together with the Inclusion Manager and SENDCo work hard to support students with additional needs.
We have:
• A positive and caring ethos and working atmosphere.
• Friendly children, eager to learn and achieve.
• A committed, enthusiastic and supportive staff team.
• Excellent support from the Governing Body, the staff and parents.
• Opportunities for career development.
We seek to appoint a suitably qualified Level 2 Teaching Assistant – with experience of working with children who have cognition and learning difficulties ages 11 to 16, reporting to the Assistant Headteacher: SENDCo.
The successful candidate would be expected to have the knowledge and skills to support students with a variety of specific needs (academic, physical and behavioural) and would be expected to have full involvement with the wider aspects of school life and the local community.
The successful candidate must have:
• Experience of working in an educational provision and ideally relevant qualifications in Learning Support.
• A calm, understanding and friendly personality.
• The ability to manage behaviour and help students focus on any given task, encouraging students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
• A professional, nurturing and resilient approach.
• Commitment and dependability within the workplace with ability to use your own initiative.
• An understanding of the National Curriculum expectations at KS3 and 4.
• The confidence to address conflict and challenging behaviour, once trained.
• The willingness to work flexibly and constructively as part of a team, providing day to day classroom support to the children and assisting with student behaviour as and if required in a supportive manner.
• The ability to establish good relationships with students, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.
• The ability to help plan lessons by preparing materials and resources.
• The capability to work with Teachers and the SENDCo to ensure progress and development.
We are a newly merged Trust Spark Education Trust which currently consists of 11 Primary Schools and 4 secondary schools. The Spark Education Trust can offer you a professional challenge and a rewarding opportunity, working with collaborative schools that are passionate about the progress and development of every student.
For further information about the role, please email Mrs Dobson (PA to Headteacher): fdobson@huntcliff.co.uk or visit www.sparkeducationtrust.org.uk
Send your completed application to: vacancies@sparkeducation.org.uk
Closing date: Friday 21st March 2025 at 09:00am
Interview Date: Tuesday 25th March
The Spark Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will need to undertake a DBS enhanced clearance.