Hope Academy is a secondary academy school for student's aged 11-16. It is a joint Church of England and Catholic academy. There is a trust wide commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all young people in their academies. Hope Academy is situated on a main road, 2 minutes from J23 M6 and 5 minutes from J9 M62, with plentiful buses and within easy access of Manchester and Liverpool; it is approximately 10 minutes’ walk from Newton-le-Willows train station.

Learning Support Assistant

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Establishment: Hope Academy Location: Hope Academy Salary: 18473.81 - 19093.75 Department: Learning Support Job Type: Part Time Key Stage: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
Closing Date: 04/12/2024 12:00 Interview Date: TBC Start Date: TBC

Additional Information

Contract Type: Fixed Term (31/08/2025) Contract Term: TTO Plus - Term time only plus weeks Hours per Week: 32.50 Weeks per Year: 39.000 Pay Grade: ASMAT Support Staff | SCP3 - SCP5

The Role

Start:             Start ASAP

Salary:           NJC Grade 2 SCP 3-5 

No on role:    1295

 

Hope Academy is a joint faith Academy serving the community of Newton-le-Willows and surrounding areas, driven by our core values of Respect, Courage, Ambition and Hope. We wish to appoint an exceptional learning support assistant to strengthen our team further.  


The successful candidate will experience: 

  • Amazing and appreciative students.
  • A staff body that acts together as one team and supports each other.
  • A visible and present leadership team, with a focus on maintaining the highest standards of uniform, behaviour and manners.
  • An academy that is part of the Department for Education Behaviour Hubs and has been identified as a best practice school nationally.
  • A teaching and learning strategy that is rooted in latest research, and values creativity actively encouraging the individual teacher to become the best version of themselves.
  • Investment in people, including weekly personal, subject and whole school CPD.
  • A state-of-the-art £33 million pound building.
  • Wellbeing as a priority. For example, free access to the on-site gym, team-building events such as staff rounders, football and tug of war, access to a full-time on-site counsellor, and regular opportunity to provide feedback that is genuinely listened to and acted upon. A friendly leadership team who genuinely want to help. 


The successful candidate will: 

  • Be an excellent learning support assistant who will always treat the wellbeing and education of our students as top priority.  
  • Be totally aligned with our values and vision to ‘Serve One Another through Love’ 

 

If you feel that you have the energy, passion, resilience and drive to be part of Hope Academy’s outstanding team we would love to hear from you. 

 

Closing Date:            Monday 4 November 2024

 

Interview:                  TBC

 

Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo safeguarding checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Trust is 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. 


Qualifications

Qualification Title Grade
NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent in relevant discipline LeveL 2/3
Desirable

Safeguarding Information

Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo safeguarding checks appropriate to the post in accordance with current Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).


All posts in the Trust are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Trust is 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. ​For further information please visit the following website What is Filtering? | Standard and Enhanced DBS Checks | Nacro


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Hope Academy

Ashton Road
Newton-le-Willows
Newton-le-Willows
WA12 0AQ

Christopher James

https://www.hopeacademy.org.uk/

Principal

Marie Adams

Values and vision

Hope Academy’s vision is to Serve One Another Through Love. Our mission is: working together to inspire excellence, guided by Christian values.


The whole academy community envelop our core values of respect, courage, ambition and hope. Hope Academy prides itself on standing at the centre of our local community, and we are determined to be an academy of which everyone can be proud. Hope Academy is committed to delivering a high quality education to all students, and aims to give them the best possible opportunities to flourish and be successful in their lives. Teachers and support staff are dedicated to making a difference to the lives of our students, through the academy's offering of a wide and varied curriculum As a faith academy, Hope Academy is committed to fostering an ethos based on gospel values, and considers the spiritual and social development of young people to be as important as their academic progress.

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