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• AI-generated answers can often be generic and impersonal, which may not accurately reflect your qualifications, skills, and experiences.
• AI-generated applications may lack the personal touch that human-written applications have, this may make you seem less engaged or interested.
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• You must not provide false or misleading information.
• If you rely too heavily on AI you might not develop the necessary skills to communicate your experiences and qualifications effectively in interviews or other stages of the hiring process. This may make you come across to the interviewer as a different person to the one that wrote the application form, and you may not be successful in the interview.

Learning Support Assistant (plus possible ELSA hours)

We are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified or experienced LSA to provide a mixture of one-to-one and in class support, in the mornings. This is a temporary post for one year initially but is likely that the role will be able to be extended into the next school year at least. This job is advertised as a Scale B post but we would consider offering a Scale C salary for applicants with recent and proven experience in a primary school setting.  There is a pay award pending for Hampshire Support Staff too!

In our school, you would be working in partnership with the classteacher/SENDCo as part of our experienced learning support and pastoral team. Your role will be to help scaffold and adapt learning, breaking it down into achievable steps to help children build skills, confidence and independence. We believe that all our children should be able to access the curriculum and wider school opportunities with confidence and independence and our learning support staff are the amazing people that work with our teaching team to make this happen.

In addition to the class LSA work, this post also includes working three lunchtimes a week, supporting all our children to enjoy happy, healthy and successful breaktimes. We believe that having Learning Support staff at lunchtimes provides quality provision and high levels of continuity for all our children.  Our start time is 8.40am and lunchtime finishes at 1pm. 

We are especially keen to receive applications from anyone who also has ELSA experience and qualifications as some additional hours and pastoral work may be available (and will be paid at a scale in line with this part of the role.) These hours would be in the afternoons and would be a mixture of Nurture Group and ELSA sessions. Please indicate on your application if you are also interested in the additional ELSA role. 

Heatherside Junior is a happy, inclusive and successful school where children show a really positive attitude towards their learning and work hard to be their best. Our Values underpin everything we do and we are really proud of our school community and all we are able to provide for the children. 

Do you...

• Believe passionately in inclusion for all pupils?

• Promote high expectations of children's progress and attainment, celebrate strengths and help foster independence and self-confidence?
• Have experience in supporting children with sensory or emotional regulation?
• Have experience of working/supporting in a primary school setting?
• Possess good literacy and numeracy skills, evidenced by relevant qualifications?

Then we would love to hear from you! We can offer you 

•  Brilliant children, who are really proud of being part of our school and want to do well.

• Supportive parents, governors and staff colleagues - we really are a team. 
• A happy school community, where collaboration is a real strength and staff wellbeing is genuinely important. We expect high standards but believe that everyone’s experience of school should be fun and memorable too!

We would be very happy to show you round so that you can see our school in action, including our lovely Amethyst Room! If you would like to visit or find out more about the role, please contact us on adminoffice@heatherside-jun.hants.sch.uk or call us on 01252 617928.  

We are hoping that someone will be able to start after October Half Term but we can be flexible on this. 

Please see the Hampshire Education Jobs website for further information.