Learning Support Assistant (Level 3) SEMH

Noadswood School; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 29,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CPD opportunities

Job summary

Noadswood School is seeking an experienced Learning Support Assistant with a focus on mental health to join our Social, Emotional and Mental Health provision. You will support pupils with low arousal and anxiety, enabling access to learning and social opportunities.

The role involves delivering English and Maths interventions, small-group work, and liaising with teachers and families to monitor progress and wellbeing; a proactive, compassionate approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting pupils with mental health needs.
• Able to deliver English and Maths interventions.
• Commitment to safeguarding and wellbeing.
• Flexible, patient approach with pupils.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals and groups to stay on task.
• Liaise with teachers on pupil progress.
• Support regulation using Zones of Regulation.
• Deliver SEN interventions including 1:1 emotional support.
• Support Maths and English/literacy interventions.
• Track progress and participate in reviews.
• Communicate with parents daily.

Skills

Mental health support

Student support

Zones of Regulation

Teacher liaison

Parent liaison

Education

Level 3 qualification

Job description

We are excitedly looking for an experienced Learning Support Assistant, who has a specific interest in supporting pupils with their mental health, to become an integral part of our well established Social, Emotional and Mental Health provision across our school. We seek someone committed to supporting the needs of young people who present with low arousal and high levels of anxiety which in turn have become a barrier to accessing learning and social opportunities.

Learning Support Assistant - (Level 3) Social/Emotional/Mental Health key worker, combined with class based support of students and delivering Intervention- Noadswood Main School

Start Date ASAP

Salary Range

Grade D £28,608 - £31,525 per annum FTE

Actual Annual Salary £15,915 - £17,538 per annum

Hours per week 24 hours per week, 4 days 8.30am to 3pm (including a 30 minute unpaid lunchbreak each day)

Weeks per year 39 weeks (Term Time including INSET Days)

Contract Type Permanent - subject to the successful completion of a 3 month probationary period

Information about the role:

The purpose of this role is that the students identified on the successful candidate's caseload will gain the ability and the skills to succeed through secondary education, accessing mainstream lessons when they can, but also to gain the ability to understand their own emotions, build up their resilience and to develop the ability to regulate and learn strategies that they can take away with them to college and beyond.

Additionally, the successful candidate will have the competence and skills to deliver English and Maths intervention, under the direction of the SENDCO and her team, enabling small groups of students to make progress identified by their classroom teachers or on their Individual Learning Plans or on their Education and Health Care Plans.

• Working with individuals and groups of pupils, assisting in ensuring pupils are kept on task and completing set tasks, either in their lessons or in M17, our learning support base.
• Liaising effectively with teachers regarding the progress of the pupils whether they are in the classroom or working elsewhere.
• Supporting pupils with their regulation, using the Zones of Regulation framework and other tools.
• Supporting students with problem solving and identifying next steps and solutions to their worries.
• Delivery of SEN interventions such as 1:1 emotional support, sensory occupational therapy and social skills.
• Delivery of intervention in Maths and numeracy essential, and intervention in English/literacy is also highly desirable.
• Supporting with academic and non-academic progress tracking and Annual Reviews.
• Liaising daily with parents and carers of identified students, having debriefed the day with the students, enabling excellent communication, conveying of successes and response to concerns.

As well as the whole school CPD opportunities throughout the year, we will be keen to point the successful candidate to bespoke training catering to the needs of the students which may, over time, include Autism, ADHD, Tourettes, OCD, Sensory Processing Disorder and Selective Mutism.

If you are someone that likes to be flexible in their approach and to be able to have the time to build up an authentic and resolute rapport with young people, supporting them through their anxieties and difficulties, to make academic progress and hit crucial social and emotional targets, then

Noadswood 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 processes reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks, along with other relevant employment checks.