Job Description

Overview

The Headteacher and Governors at Tylers Green Middle School are looking to appoint two Learning Support Assistants to offer support to specific disadvantaged and SEN pupils.

Job Salary: \xc2\xa321,223 FTE (approximate actual salary \xc2\xa314,229)

Contract type: Two posts, one permanent, one fixed term until July 2024 (with possible extension)

Hours: 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.45am - 3.20pm (Term time only, 38 weeks per year)

Closing date: 9am Monday 18th September 2023

Interview date : Thursday 21st September 2023

About us

Tylers Green Middle School, a two form entry junior school, is located on the edge of the Chilterns in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Our school buildings house outstanding specialist teaching facilities as well as extensive sports fields, an indoor swimming pool and an outdoor conservation area. We are fortunate enough to have a parent community which actively engages in our children\'s learning as well as a helpful and knowledgeable governing body readily on hand to offer advice and guidance and a well established and supportive staff team.

Please visit our website for further information as well as to view our school via a virtual tour on

Tylers Green is a happy and inclusive place to work and learn. Staff and pupils are supported alike. There is a high value placed on well-being and the school prides itself on providing opportunities and training to allow staff to develop their skills and interests. The school has a strong community feel and is at the heart of the village.

About the role

Our SENDCo is keen to ensure that the school is appropriately resourced to provide the care and support needed so that all pupils, whatever their background and barriers, may achieve their potential. Our shared ethos is through the Compass For Life approach that was remarked upon in our recent OFSTED report (November 2019): \'Staff work alongside pupils to set challenging and ambitious personal goals. Pupils use their \'compass\' to strive to achieve their best\'. \'Pupils are polite, courteous and kind to one another. They play and learn together well\'. Parents agree, with one parent commenting: \'Behaviour is impeccable.\' (Ofsted November 2019).

We value personal growth as well as academic achievement and are looking for people to join our energetic and dedicated team to help us, through support and specific interventions, support the development of our pupils into happy and confident individuals, who have achieved their best. This role may be suitable for a graduate looking to gain experience before considering teacher training. We have already supported a number of candidates in pursuing this route.

About you

The Learning Support Assistant position is vital in supporting all children; some who have specific barriers to learning including SEND. You should have a good level of English and Maths. This role will entail supporting the learning in classes, providing interventions for individual children or small groups and offering emotional support as well as lunch and break time duties where needed. Experience of working with children in this age group is desirable, but not essential. Applicants must demonstrate a positive and inclusive approach towards all children, creating a supportive environment to allow the children to reach their potential. You will need to be a team player who is flexible as well as being able to use your own initiative. You will also be keen to learn and also to share your existing skills.

Experience in the below are desirable:

• Supporting emotional and social needs
• Promoting independence and confidence in children
• Supporting understanding in literacy
• Delivery of SaLT programmes
• Working with children with dyslexia and dyscalculia
• Understanding of ASD and strategies to support
• Understanding of mental health issues

Other information

Completed job application forms to be emailed to Elin Chalk, School Business Manager, on by 9 am on Monday 18 September 2023. Interviews will take place on Thursday 21 September 2023. Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Visits to the school before application or interview are welcome. If you wish to have an informal conversation with staff at the school via telephone or on an online video call before applying, please contact the School Business Manager on or 01494 812465 to arrange this. Please also access our virtual tour via our website at .

Please note that an online search will be completed for shortlisted candidates. The use of internet/social media information will be restricted to information relevant to the role for which an individual has applied. Information on the internet may not always be accurate, up-to-date or relate to the right individual. If information has been discovered, this will be compared with the candidate\'s application form, employment history and criminal/suitability self-disclosure and then discussed with the applicant at interview. The recruitment panel will let the applicant comment and respond to any information which has been obtained via an online search before a final recruitment decision is made.

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 and the (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.

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