Job Introduction
We are excited to announce an opportunity to join our happy Bidbury Infant team!
We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant who will be involved in supporting individual children (with EHCPs/SEN adjustments) in our Early Years and Key Stage 1 (Year R to Year 2) classes and also supporting work in the classroom.
This is initially a fixed term contract, with the expectation that this will run for as long as the child(ren) remain enrolled at Bidbury Infant School, initially fixed until 31 August 2026.
Working hours are Monday - Friday (8:40am - 3:20pm) - 30.8 hours per week, with 30 minutes covering lunch duty and 30 minutes for lunch break. This is a term-time only role, with the addition of 5 x INSET days per academic year, amounting to 39 working weeks, with a total of 44.48 paid weeks per year.
This is a Grade B post: FTE range £24,027 - £24348, actual pro-rated pay range: £17136 - £17365 (2024 Support Staff pay award now applied, with 2025 Support Staff pay award not yet confirmed).
We are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and hard-working person to join our dedicated team.
The successful applicant will be fully focused on and committed to the welfare, learning and growth of our children. They will have excellent interpersonal skills, will be approachable, calm and understanding and have high levels of integrity. They will also be well organised and systematic, yet adaptable and flexible.
This is an opportunity for applicants who are keen to develop their experience and skills in working with children with SEND in a school setting. Ongoing professional development will be provided within a supportive and nurturing team.
The main duties of the role include:
- Working with individual or groups of children to assist in ensuring pupils are kept on task and complete activities set by teachers;
- Dealing with behavioural and special needs issues in conjunction with the class teacher and SENCO
- Helping to implement lesson plans
- Assisting the teacher with testing and assessment, reviewing progress of pupils against learning programmes
- Detecting signs of behavioural issues and working with outside agencies
- Readiness to undertake personal/intimate medical work for children with special needs
- Playtime supervision, including lunch assistance for 30 minutes each day.
We are so proud of our children - they are highly engaged, keen to learn and enjoy all aspects of school life. They are well-mannered and consider of others. Our values are more than just words - they underpin everything we do and how aim to do it. We have 6 core values that are embedded through our curriculum and in all that we do:
- Resilience
- Respect
- Focus
- Boundaries
- Independence
- Self-regulation
You will be educated to a minimum of GCSE Grade C (or equivalent) in Maths and English and be able to demonstrate an understanding of supporting children in Infant school education, ideally with relevant volunteer or working experience in a similar setting.
We recognise and celebrate that all our children are different but each are special. We encourage indvidiuality and work hard every day to ensure that our school is a place where everyone feels valued and included. We believe that our children should develop an understanding of the wider world, their place within it and how they can make a positive difference.
You can see our school in action on our Facebook page and website!
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed, please contact the School Office if you would like to book in and come to visit us.
The School Office can be contacted on 02392 483336 or email adminoffice@bidbury-inf.hant.sch.uk for further details.
To apply for this role please download and complete the support staff application form and equal opportunities form and email both to adminoffice@bidbury-inf.hants.sch.uk
Safer Recruitment
We are 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 practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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