Job Title: Learning Support Practitioner (LSP)
Location: Winchester
Contract Type: Fixed term contact 28.5 hours, term time only
Salary: Grade B FTE £20,812 – £21,133 Actual £13,712 – £13,924
Job type: Full Time.
Start Date: September 2023
Do you want to be part of a school community on a journey from good to outstanding? Do you want to make a difference to outcomes for all students?
We are looking to appoint a Learning Support Practitioner to work with our students who have special educational needs.
The successful candidate will provide support for students who have barriers to learning. They will work with students in and out of lessons, supporting them to make progress and to feel more confident in themselves as learners. Good levels of numeracy and literacy are required (GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths). You will work as part of a small and supportive team of staff dedicated to improving the education of young people with additional needs.
Previous school experience and specialist qualifications are not essential, as it is more important for the successful candidate to show empathy, resilience, initiative, dedication to our students, and a good sense of humour. Training and guidance will be provided.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful secondary school which is ‘where teachers and leaders at all levels are enthusiastic and ambitious’ (Ofsted).
The successful candidate will:
- Be committed to comprehensive education.
- Have students at the heart of what drives their decision making.
Role requirements:
- Support for pupils – Working with individual or groups of children, assist in ensuring pupils are kept on task and complete activates set by teachers + deal with behavioural and special needs issues in conjunction with the teacher – 50% of time.
- Support for teachers – Help implement lesson plans + Provide feedback to pupils in conjunction with the headteacher – 15% of time.
- Support for curriculum – Assist the teacher with testing and assessment + review progress of pupils against learning programmes – 15% of time.
- Support for the school – Implement curriculum policies + detect signs of behavioural issues + work with outside agencies + playtime supervision – 15 % of time.
- Corporate and statutory initiatives – Maintain an awareness of school, national and statutory policies and requirements and apply these in the workplace – 5 % of time.
Entry: Necessary role-related knowledge, skills and experience at selection:
- Empathy with pupils and sympathetic to their needs.
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills.
- Good communication skills and able to clarify and explain instructions clearly.
- Professionally discrete and able to respect confidentiality on particular issues.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills and sense of humour enabling effective relationships with a variety of different people.
- Team Worker.
Operationally effective: How would effectiveness in role be demonstrated?
- Firm, sensitive and effective approach towards pupil discipline.
- Good organisational ability.
- Able to work at a basic level with the teacher in planning and delivery of teaching activities (including those defined in Individual Education Plans).
- Able to monitor and record pupil progress.
- Competent in working with group of pupils with some supervision from the teacher.
- Ability to apply knowledge and skills from training in practical classroom context.
- Flexible in relation to tasks undertaken and groups/children allocated.
- Ability to motivate and encourage children appropriately.
- Ability to work independently and with initiative.
- Ability to establish and maintain good relationships and rapport with other colleagues in the school and external contacts (e.g. parents, education psychologist, speech therapist).
- Possession of specialist qualification/skills to deal with needs of particularly challenging pupil.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of: Learning Practitioner, LSP, SEN Support may also be considered for this role.
