Role: Learning Support Assistant
Contract: Full time, temp to perm opportunity
Start: September
Salary: Starting from £90 per day
Are you a motivated individual that loves supporting young people with additional needs? Are you able to build excellent relationships with people to enable you to best support them? Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of young people?
Long-Term Teachers is working with an incredible provision for young people in secondary school who present challenging behaviour. Coming from a range of backgrounds, the students you will be working with have additional needs including high-functioning autism and ADHD.
Your daily duties would include providing classroom support to students, sometimes on a 1:1 basis dependent on need. You will help students stay focused and engaged in their learning but also, allow students time to regulate themselves if needed. You will also be responsible for supervision outside of the classroom, including break times or extracurricular activities.
About the school:
11-16 special school with over 100 students
Focus on supporting student with predominant needs associated with autism and ADHD
Close knit team who work relentlessly to support each other as well as the students
Based across 2 sites
Purpose built nurture facility
Earlier school day to suit the needs of the students
Small class sizes (maximum of 10 students)
High staff to student ratio
You will be required to work 8am - 3pm, Monday to Friday during term-time only. You will be well supported and will receive regular opportunities for professional development. You must be able to drive and have access to your own vehicle.
Working with Long-term Teachers:
We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.
LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.
Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.
We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.
In addition you will receive:
Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities
Permanent job roles
Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process
Working to Agency Workers Regulations
Interview preparation, advice and support
Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay