Learning Support Assistant - Furze Down School

Overview

These roles will suit someone who:

• Has no experience and wishes to begin a career in education
• Someone who is already working as a Learning Support Assistant and is interested in a new challenge.
• A recent university graduate who is interested in gaining initial classroom experience in order to start a career path in Teaching, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy

Extensive personalised professional development will be provided regardless of experience

Term time only

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 2 (£10.50 - £11.80 per hour) Depending on experience

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week 39 weeks per year - Part time job shares will be considered. Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday 8.30am – 4.30pm and Friday 8.30am – 4.00pm)

Closing date: 24/05/2024 12:00

Interviews to be held: To be advised - We reserve the right to close the advert sooner than the closing date if the position has been filled

About us

At Furze Down School our vision is to: Create a Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs through our Specialism in Communication and Interaction; Raise the profile and status of children with Special Educational Needs, and to give support to their families and carers; Inspire and empower children and young people with SEN to become ambitious and aspirational for their futures; foster curiosity and a love of learning alongside the development of the key concepts, knowledge, skills and attributes important to being able to flourish in life, learning, work and leisure.

www.fds.org.uk

About the role

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached to advert.

About you

Please see Person Specification attached

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on 01296 711380.

Please send completed application forms to the email address: recruitment@furzedownschool.org.uk

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our school is wholly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.

We a legal duty of care for the health, safety, security and wellbeing of all pupils and staff.

This duty of care incorporates the duty to ‘safeguard’ all pupils and it is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that this duty is uncompromised at all times. In performing this duty, we recognise that there can be no complacency where child protection and safeguarding procedures are concerned.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.