Location: Minehead, Somerset

Hourly Rate: £11.72 - £12.78

Call/email Alisdair at Integritas Education Recruitment to get an application form and to receive a full job description

This school is part of a UK wide group of 28 Special Needs Schools.

They have an amazing benefits and will pay for all your training.

Annual Salary: £22,554 - £24,593 (FTE £24,378.00 - £26,582.00)

Hours: 40 Hours per week 

Contract: Term time plus additional days and training (42 weeks per year)

Please note: there is a requirement for shift work including weekends and sleep-ins. The number of sleep-in shifts do vary and are paid at a flat rate of £63.75 (in addition to your annual salary)

Your skills/qualifications:

• Experience in a similar role desirable but training can be provided for the right candidate
• Experience in supporting in the care or education industry
• Desirable an understanding of working with people with a disability
• Level 2 in English and Maths
• Desirable Level 3 qualification in education or care
• Ability to work on a rota pattern - please note; that this will typically mean working every other weekend

Benefits:

• Full training and continued support 
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at the hotel attached to the school
• Life assurance and pension
• Health cash back plan
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme 
• Perk box
• Free parking

Key Duties:

• As a Learning Support Practitioner (LSP) they expect you to have high expectations of all students, and to constantly challenge and stretch each student at every opportunity.
• As an LSP they expect you at all times, and under the guidance of the House Team Leaders/Tutors, to support students in their learning, enabling them to reach their full potential.
• We expect all LSPs to professionally and effectively support with managing student behaviour, seeking further advice and guidance where appropriate.
• Work professionally and collaboratively with the session tutor to develop a positive, constructive and proactive relationship that benefits the students and contributes significantly to their success within each session and over the duration of the course.
• Use strategies to promote students’ wider skills development, such as in communication, self-advocacy, presentation skills and team work.
• Work professionally 1:1 with students as directed by House Team Leaders and other LSP’s, monitoring their personal management and independent skills.

Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.