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Learning Support Assistant - Gurnard Primary School

Job Posted: 14 June 2024

  • Contract Term: Permanent
  • Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight
  • Contract Type: Part time
  • Salary: Grade 3, Actual salary £15,505–£15,676 (FTE £23,115-£23,370) pay award pending
  • Industries: Education
Closing Date: 1 July 2024

Learning Support Assistant (Ref: 2024_936)

Gurnard Primary School, Baring Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 8DS

Grade 3, Actual salary £15,505–£15,676 (FTE £23,115-£23,370) pay award pendin

Contact: Please feel free to call to arrange a visit. Otherwise further details about our school and an application pack are available on our school website - www.gurnardprimaryschool.co.uk/. Completed applications should be emailed to our School Business Manager, Mrs Angela McLuckie, at [email protected].

Vacancy Reference: 2024_936

Closing Date: 01/07/2024

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 28.75 per week, 8.30am-3:00pm each day, Term time only.

Starting Date: 2nd September 2024

We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated Learning Support Assistant to join our team.  This will be in Key Stage 2 in the first instance. The successful candidate will work closely with our experienced teachers to provide high quality teaching and learning provision.

The successful candidate will need to have:

  • Experience of working with children
  • Good English, maths, ICT, and communication skills (English and maths at Grade C equivalent or above)
  • The ability to work well in a team
  • A positive, flexible, ‘can do’ attitude
  • Loads of energy for children that want to learn and play
  • Values that match that of our school – Respect, Success, Belonging

We can offer you:

A working environment that supports wellbeing; we currently offer two paid days’ personal leave per academic year plus other benefits

Enthusiastic, well-behaved pupils with positive attitudes to learning

Friendly, welcoming, and inclusive school

Supportive parents and families that want the best for their children

A commitment to your continued professional development

If you are looking for the opportunity to make your contribution to a successful forward-looking primary school, we would love to hear from you! 

Please feel free to call to arrange a visit. Otherwise further details about our school and an application pack are available on our school website - www.gurnardprimaryschool.co.uk/.

Completed applications should be emailed to our School Business Manager, Mrs Angela McLuckie, at [email protected].

Gurnard Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to relevant Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, online checks, other safeguarding and health checks and references.  We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

PLEASE NOTE: Not all school staff are employed directly by the Isle of Wight Council, you can ask on application who the employer for this role will be.

Find out more about working for the Isle of Wight Council and living on the Island here.

The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination and this is supported by the Unacceptable Behaviour PolicyEmployee Code of Conduct and Behaviours Framework. We actively promote the diversity of our workforce and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees.

The Isle of Wight Council’s Terms & Conditions of employment are available upon request. Please contact our recruitment team via [email protected] if you would like to receive a copy.

The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are also a Disability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.

Closing Date: 1 July 2024

Interview Date: w/c 8 July 2024

Isle of Wight Council

The Isle of Wight Council recognises the importance of a motivated workforce and offers a package of benefits to support them. Including everything you would expect from a modern public sector organisation.

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