Learning Support Assistant (Primary School)

Mayfield School; Scotland; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Mayfield School is seeking a dedicated Learning Support Assistant for a part-time role focused on providing essential support to young students with diverse needs. The successful candidate will work with a vibrant team in a nurturing environment, helping students thrive academically and personally. This fixed-term position offers the chance to make a significant impact in the lives of students, contributing to their success and wellbeing within the school community.

Benefits

Excellent CPD opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to Occupational Health provider

Supportive ethos

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar supporting role preferred but not essential.
• Positive, engaged, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to work 40 weeks a year, term time + 5 days.

Responsibilities

• Support young students with additional needs, especially in speech and language.
• Work collaboratively with teachers to enhance student learning.
• Create a nurturing environment to facilitate student growth.

Skills

Supportive work ethic

Can-do attitude

Attention to detail

Caring persona

Education

GCSE English and Maths

Job description

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Overview

Mayfield School seeks to appoint an organised and proactive Primary School Learning Support Assistant on a fixed term contract. This role is an amazing opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference to young people who need additional support including speech and language.

Job Introduction

Overview

Mayfield School seeks to appoint an organised and proactive Primary School Learning Support Assistant on a fixed term contract. This role is an amazing opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference to young people who need additional support including speech and language.

What Does Mayfield Have To Offer

• A supportive ethos and genuine concern for wellbeing of all our employee
• A highly skilled, diverse, and driven team of committed employees to work with
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to an Occupational Health provider
• A genuine opportunity to make a difference to the benefit of students and their local community
• An exciting and vibrant environment in which to work
• Opportunity of career growth as part of a Trust
  
  

We Are Looking For Someone Who

• Preferably has experience in a similar supporting role although not essential
• Is engaged and has a desire to apply their knowledge and skills to Mayfield
• Has a supportive and one team work ethic
• Is positive with a can-do attitude
• Has a caring persona for those around them
• Takes notice of the details and observant of the little things
• Takes pride in their work
• Can evidence they have passed both GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths
• Able to work 40 weeks per year (term time +5 days) and 31.2 hours per week over 5 days
  
  

Our school

Our school is a very special place where students, staff and governors work in a community where we aim to 'Believe. Achieve. Succeed.' every day. This is driven by our new set of shared values - Ambition, Inclusion and Respect. Mayfield School is at the heart of a thriving and diverse local community. We are one of the first single-site, all-through maintained schools in the country, which we believe provides us with a unique opportunity to improve and shape the lives of all students (Year R Year 11) in our community. We strive for all students at Mayfield School to receive a high-quality education, in a safe environment where all children are valued, supported, inspired and future ready. Mayfield prides itself on the positive relationships fostered, knowing every young person as an individual and challenging each of them to have the highest possible aspirations through our ambitious and inclusive curriculum.

How To Apply

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy if a suitable candidate is found.

Further information

If you have any questions about the role or would like to arrange a tour, please contact our HR Department on 02392 693432.

Safeguarding

Mayfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Some forms of employment, occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Required

You are applying for a role that is eligible for an enhanced DBS check and access to the barred list and if shortlisted for interview you will be required to complete the relevant self-declaration and disclosure form and taking into account the offences that are protected or filtered 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)
• If you have been barred from working with Children and/or Adults at risk
  
  

The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings, and any other information held by local police thats considered relevant to the role. Any information that is protected under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate.

The successful candidate will then be asked to complete an application for the relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check or if subscribed to the update service provide the necessary details to allow a check to be made. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered protected. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975 - GOV.UK ( www.gov.uk )

• warnings, reprimands, and youth cautions will no longer be automatically disclosed on a DBS certificate
• the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than all being automatically disclosed
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