Learning Support Intervention Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Education Learning Trust seeks a Learning Support Intervention Assistant to provide targeted academic and emotional support to pupils, including 1:1 and small-group work. You will work under the SENDCo and teaching staff to improve outcomes and build learner confidence.

The ideal candidate has experience with children in an educational setting, is patient and proactive, and can follow intervention plans while collaborating with colleagues to support inclusive learning.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children or young people, ideally in an educational or SEND setting.
• Patience, caring nature and understanding of learners with additional needs.
• Able to follow intervention plans effectively and adapt to changing needs.

Responsibilities

• Assist and supplement teaching staff to support students with learning difficulties and access to the curriculum.
• Help ensure lesson aims are achieved for students on the SEND Register.
• Promote an inclusive school culture and safeguard the well-being of students with SEND.
• Move with students around the school as needed to ensure safety.

Skills

Experience with children

Patience & empathy

Team player

Follow intervention plans

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to join our SEND team as a Learning Support Intervention Assistant. We are looking to appoint enthusiastic and committed individuals who are passionate about supporting pupils with additional needs to reach their full potential.

As a Learning Support Intervention Assistant, you will work under the direction of the SENDCo and teaching staff to provide targeted academic and emotional support to pupils, either 1:1 or in small groups. Your role will be central to improving outcomes and building confidence among our learners.

Key Responsibilities:

• To take a key role in assisting and supplementing the work of the teaching staff in providing for the intellectual, social and physical and special educational needs of students identified as having learning difficulties and assisting in adaptive teaching which enables these students to have maximum access to the curriculum. We aim to encourage our students to work independently on suitable tasks.
• To take a key role in supplementing the work of teaching staff to ensure as far as possible that the aims and objectives of each lesson are achieved by students identified on the SEND Register as having learning difficulties.
• To promote and help develop the inclusive nature of the school.
• To ensure the safety and well-being of students with SEND moving around the school (accompanying students where necessary)

The ideal candidate will:

• Have experience working with children or young people, ideally in an educational or SEND setting
• Be patient, caring, and understanding of the needs of learners with additional needs
• Be able to follow intervention plans effectively and adapt to changing needs
• Be a team player with strong communication skills
• Be proactive and committed to making a difference

For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.

What the school offers its staff

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.

It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and 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:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Commitment to safeguarding

ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002. All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.