SEN Learning Support Assistant (Social, Emotional, Mental Health)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential

• Experience of and interest in working with students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues
• Minimum GCSE grade C or above, or 4-9, or functional skills level 2 in Maths and English
• Qualifications in, or willingness to work toward accreditation of, working with students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to handle situations with tact and sensitivity involving staff and students
• Excellent behaviour management skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload
• Effective use of ICT to support learning
• Understanding of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion

General

• Level 4 Award in SEMH would be helpful for this post
• General understanding of national curriculum and other basic learning programmes/strategies
• Basic understanding of child development and learning
• Ability to identify learning needs
• Ability to scaffold work, in particular in English and Maths
• Display a commitment and an ability to contribute to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people
• Work as part of a team
• Demonstrate personal integrity
• Work to support the aims and ethos of the school
• Flexibility in the approach to work and the demands of the post
• Willingness to undertake professional development.

What the school offers its staff

We want an educational experience which provides excellence for - and expects it from - everyone. We know that this is best achieved in a school where:

• the offer is broad, balanced, inclusive, enriching and effective in meeting the needs of young people;
• staff and students are supported and challenged to be the best versions of themselves;
• relationships are positive, well established and healthy;
• practice is based on evidence and underpinned by the notion that ‘we can always do better’.

Individuals who join the Trust will also have access to a range of benefits including a 24 hour Employee Assistance Programme and a choice of two bicycle schemes.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.