Job Description: Learning Support Assistant

Reports to: SENCo

Start date: 01 September 2023 

Location: Ark Evelyn Grace Academy

Contract: Full Time- Permanent, term time only (TTO)

Salary: Grade 6 (£27,073 - £29,419)

 

The Role

 

• To provide support for identified individuals and groups of students across the curriculum, helping them to learn effectively.

• To assist teaching staff with the preparation of differentiated resources which enable students to access the curriculum.

• To work with the SENCO to identify and implement strategies and interventions which enable identified students to make progress.

Key Responsibilities

• To promote inclusion and acceptance of all students in the school, including those with physical, learning and behaviour difficulties

• To work with teachers to assess the needs of individual students

• To work with the SENCO and other teachers to implement Individual Education Plans and develop resources for pupils who have: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), English as a second language, speech or language impairments, or behaviours that interfere with learning and/or the development of relationships

• To plan and facilitate small group teaching

• To plan and undertake one to one teaching

• To observe, record and feedback information of pupil performance

• To assist in creating materials for curriculum delivery and display boards

• To assist with whole class teaching

• To assist with promoting positive behaviour for learning within and outside the classroom

• To provide off-site community-based opportunities for pupils, if appropriate

• To assist student learning outside of the classroom when appropriate e.g., computer lab, library, homework clubs or interventions

• To understand and analyse data of identified students

• To support the supervision of students during lunch times and at the start/end of the school day