Learning Support Assistant

What are we looking for? TCHC is looking for a Learning Support Assistant who will be creative and engaging to enable individual learners to achieve their qualifications and develop their skills while learning. Working with individuals who may present challenges, your support will be patient while demonstrating empathy and strategies to ensure individuals achieve their aspirations in all subjects.

Qualifications

• Learning support qualification or willing to work towards (desirable)
• GCSE (or equivalent) in English and maths at grade C/4 or above (essential)
• SEND experience (desirable)
• SEND CPD (desirable)

Main Tasks & Responsibilities

• To help reinforce learning.
• To assist students with learning needs.
• To help students record work in an appropriate way.
• To develop study and organisational skills.
• To help keep the students on task and to build motivation.
• To model good practice.
• To help build the student/s’ confidence and enhance self-esteem.
• To have formal and informal meetings with tutors to contribute to planning lessons/activities.
• To prepare students beforehand for a task.
• To work on differentiated activities with identified groups.
• To support the tutor in implementing specific instruction
• To supervise practical tasks.
• To be involved in keeping records and evaluating identified students’ progress. Support the creation of individual learning plans.
• Support learners in all lessons and around the centre.
• Provide one-to-one support to learners where necessary.
• Act as a key worker to specific learners through their learning.
• Liaise with relevant team members to ensure learners achieve their targets and progress toward appropriate outcomes.
• Read and analyse EHCP ensuring you identify the learning needs of the individual while ensuring the correct resources are in place for individuals.
• Provide learners with appropriate encouragement, guidance and support to help them progress.
• Complete all required documentation accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Create conducive learning environments to optimise learners’ journeys and support positive outcomes.
• Actively ensure your own CPD is kept up to date as per the requirements for your subject area.
• To take into account the student/s’ special needs and ensure their access to the lesson and its content through appropriate clarification, explanations, equipment and materials.
• To build and maintain successful relationships with students, and treat them consistently, with respect and consideration.
• To help promote independent learning.

Commitment to Safeguarding TCHC is committed to Safeguarding and to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All staff are expected to adhere to our Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy and the safeguarding responsibilities outlined in their job description.

We conduct Safer Recruitment Checks on all staff prior to confirming a start date, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. An online search of information within the public domain is conducted on all candidates who are invited to interview,

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Please see our Recruitment with Safer Recruitment Policy for further information or contact the Safeguarding Manager on 07732 684738 or by emailing [email protected]