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Learning Support Assistant (SEMH Key worker/Eng&Maths Interventions)

Job Introduction

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.

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.

Main duties include:

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 please don’t hesitate to apply – we also welcome visits prior to interview.

For further information and an application form, see our website www.noadswood.hants.sch.uk. Applications to be sent by email to recruitment@noadswood.hants.sch.uk

Please note CVs are not accepted.

Safer Recruitment

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.