Learning Support Assistant - Holmer Green Senior School
Location: Little Missenden
Overview
Interesting role as an LSA in our fabulous school (Holmer Green Senior School).
If you wish to help our students to become the best possible version of themselves, this could be for you.
Consideration given to job share/part-time applicants
Start date: Start date of 24 February 2025
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 1 - 2: £23,297 - £26,961 (to be pro-rata pay - £18,288 - £21,164 depending on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 34.25 per week, term time only plus INSET Days
Closing date: 20/01/2025 09:00
Interviews to be held: w/c 20 January 2025
About us
Holmer Green is a popular 11 to 18 school with 1000+ students (100+ in the Sixth Form) and is expanding. As a school we are in the top 10% of schools nationally for KS4 progress and in the top 5% of schools nationally for KS5 progress. As part of our expansion plan we now have a range of new modern facilities.
We can offer 8 staff training days (not the 5 you find in most schools), a two week October half term, professional development of a high standard. We take our staff well-being seriously and offer weekly activities, like team sports and a brand new fitness suite.
Website: https://www.hgss.co.uk/
About the role
Duties and Responsibilities:
▪ To be committed to the safeguarding and well-being of all students and to follow school Policy and procedures in this regard.
▪ To support students in the classroom to access the curriculum.
▪ To be a keyworker (point of contact) for a small number of students with special educational needs.
▪ To liaise with teaching staff to support the differentiation of task or delivery for students with special educational needs.
▪ To develop a working knowledge of the subject in the curricular areas worked in.
▪ Under the guidance and direction of relevant members of the staff, to work with individuals or groups of students on specific activities.
▪ To support students with social, emotional and mental health issues when appropriate.
▪ To support students to access exams and assessments.
▪ To feedback to staff as appropriate general observations of students.
For further information please see attached Job description.
About you
See attached Person specification.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome.
To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.
Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01494 712219
Email: [email protected]
Holmer Green Senior School is committed to the welfare and safeguarding of all its students and therefore all appointments are made subject to satisfactory Enhanced DBS, qualification and pre-employment checks.
As part of the shortlisting process, we will carry out an online search (including social media) 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).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
