Stage/year group: Post 1: 1:1 support in Year 2
Post 2: 1:1 support and small group work across the school
Post 3: 1:1 support in Year 4
Hours: Post 1: 32 hours and 30 minutes per week
Post 2: 32 hours and 30 minutes per week
Post 3: 20 hours per week
Terms:
Fixed term until 31 August 2023 with possibility of extension to post, pending review of top up funding.
Pay grade and Salary:
Qualification to obtain E4 pay grade: NVQ Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification Post 1 and 2:
Unqualified - E3: £16,573 - £16,874 per annum pro rata
Qualified –E4: £17,182 - £18,477 per annum pro rata
Post 3:
Unqualified – E3: £10,198 - £10,384 per annum pro rata
Qualified – E4: £10,574 - £11,370 per annum pro rata
Including an excellent benefits package.
An ELAN LSA is positive, a team player, motivational, flexible, creative, and innovative with a supportive nature, as well as being confident, calm, consistent and resourceful with experience supporting pupils in a classroom environment, with Special Educational Needs or disabilities (SEND).
You will work closely with the class teachers to resource and adapt planning and support high quality teaching and learning across all subjects. You will help to create learning environments where pupils can expand their knowledge. You will work with the school community to uphold our trust and school values.
You need to be proactive, energetic, and committed to engaging pupils, developing their desire to learn. You will help to inspire them to be confident and independent. You will also need to be calm, patient, sensitive and able to comfort children when they are upset. This role is funded by additional SEN funding.
Post 1 is supporting a Year 2 pupil with moderate learning difficulties as well as hearing and visual impairment. The role will continue if the funding continues, and the pupil remains at Oldmixon.
Post 2 is supporting a range of children with SEND needs all across the school working both 1:1 and in small groups.
Post 3 is supporting a Year 4 pupil with SEMH needs. The role will continue if the funding continues, and the pupil remains at Oldmixon.
Oldmixon Primary School is an urban school for 2-11 year olds in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset. Well regarded in the local community, Oldmixon is a friendly, warm, and supportive school according to our families. There is a strong focus on mutual respect and collaboration: we work together to give our pupils a high quality education.
We pride ourselves on being a caring, creative school where pupils, staff and the wider community are highly valued and underpin our vision of everyone ‘Achieving for life’. We genuinely believe that there is no limit to what our pupils, teachers and communities will achieve during their time at our school.
Oldmixon Primary School is part of Extend Learning Academies Network (ELAN) and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. We will be undertaking an appropriate online search for shortlisted candidates. It is an offence to apply for a role that requires regulated activity if you are barred from doing so. Any concerns will be reported immediately to the appropriate body.
Interview date: 27 February 2023
Oldmixon Primary School is part of Extend Learning Academies Network (ELAN) and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. We will be undertaking an appropriate online search for shortlisted candidates. It is an offence to apply for a role that requires regulated activity if you are barred from doing so. Any concerns will be reported immediately to the appropriate body. Our safeguarding policy is available on the school website.