At a Glance
- Tasks: Support children with special educational needs in a collaborative and caring environment.
- Company: Westfield School, a thriving primary special school dedicated to student progress.
- Benefits: Professional development, supportive team, and a positive work culture.
- Other info: Join a friendly team committed to safeguarding and continuous learning.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in children's lives while growing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience with SEND and a passion for fostering children's well-being.
The predicted salary is between 31650 - 43607 £ per year.
Do you want to join a happy, collaborative and effective staff team committed to ensuring our children with SEN make real world progress? Westfield is a successful and stable primary special school, expanding to meet demand for special school places. Flexibility, humour and willingness to go the extra mile are essential for all staff to ensure a high standard of support for all of our pupils.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Able to demonstrate good safeguarding practice and a commitment to fostering children’s well-being and positive mental health
- Committed to working with children with SEND
- An intelligent and reflective practitioner seeking to extend their professional skills
- Flexible in their approach to school life and positive in outlook
- Well organised and calm with a systematic approach to learning
- Able to work as a member of a team, providing motivation and support to colleagues
- Able to support learning within EYFS and KS1 of the national curriculum ensuring pupils make progress
What the school offers its staff:
“Staff are happy and proud to work at the school. They feel highly valued by leaders and are highly motivated to help pupils achieve their best.” Ofsted Inspection Report February 2024.
We are seeking enthusiastic and dedicated Learning Support Assistants to join our fantastic primary team! Successful candidates can expect to work in a calm and welcoming environment where positive relationships are central to our ethos and culture and an ongoing programme of training and staff development ensures continued learning for all.
We can offer you:
- Professional development opportunities
- Innovative approaches to teaching and learning
- A positive, caring and forward-thinking environment with superb space and facilities
- A friendly and committed team of staff and governors and strong, supportive management
- Frequent and regular bespoke training and support to fully develop your skills, knowledge and understanding of SEN
Commitment to safeguarding:
Westfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS, Teaching Regulation Agency, childcare disqualification, qualification and reference checks. As part of the shortlisting process, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on the shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
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).
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