Learning Support Assistant (for SEN pupils)

About The School

Nether Alderley Primary School is a small, successful rural school in Cheshire, located close to the village of Alderley Edge. The School has capacity for 105 children in four mixed-age classes. In its long history, the School has established a reputation for excellence in the local community and we pride ourselves on being a place of learning where pupils are safe, respected and valued within a nurturing, family community. 

About The Role

We are seeking a Learning Support Assistant to work with two Year 6 pupils.

Your role will be to work alongside the class teachers to deliver the objectives as stated in the children’s Education, Health and Care plans, including :

To support social communication and interaction difficulties.

To help manage anxiety levels and regulation and overcome demand avoidance strategies

To provide sensory breaks and social skills interventions

You will be the key worker for the child and will liaise with other members of staff, parents and other professionals.

We need you to have an NVQ 2 or higher; experience of supporting pupils with learning, speech, language and communication needs and to be self-motivated and able to work in a small team with a positive, can-do attitude. 

About The Fallibroome Trust

Who We Are

We educate over 5,000 children and employ 800 teaching and support staff to deliver our vision to ensure every student leaves school with the values, skills, qualities and aptitudes to thrive in society combined with highest possible learning outcomes. Our core values of Trust, Respect and Optimism underpin everything we do.

The Fallibroome Trust is a school-led multi-academy trust which encourages its schools to work with a high level of autonomy and keep their own ‘personality’ and close ties to their local communities – always underpinned by strong support from the Trust leadership and the school improvement and business teams.

We offer a wide-ranging programme of professional development for all employees to support those taking their first steps in education to those working as exceptional leaders.

The people you work with will support and motivate you in achieving your ambitions. Our exceptional teachers, support staff and leaders come from a wide range of backgrounds, but they all share a deeply held commitment to give our students an outstanding education in an inspiring and happy school environment.

The Trust has grown organically to three secondary and seven primary schools based in Cheshire. The Trust operates from its headquarters in Macclesfield, Cheshire where the School improvement and Business Support teams are based.

Benefits of working with the Trust

• High quality professional development at all stages of your career
• Access to the Teachers’ Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes with a generous employer contribution rate
• 26 days holiday entitlement for support staff, rising to 31 days with service
• Free on site parking
• Cycle to work scheme
• Confidential employee counselling helpline

How to apply

We ask all applicants to apply through Face-Ed; our recruitment software. This enables us to efficiently carry out our safer recruitment checks, but we recognise it can take some time for the applicant. The good news is, you will only need to register for Face-Ed once to apply for any role in the Fallibroome Trust's 10 schools.

Our top tips for a painless process are as follows:

1. Because Face-Ed is cloud based software, it is possible for you to experience a break in connection and you won't necessarily know about it straight away. We therefore strongly recommend that you prepare your main application content in a different package like MS Word/Notepad and copy and paste it into your Face-Ed application form in the relevant sections.
2. If you get a message saying "Validation Error" it isn't a software fault. It means you have entered data in a format that wasn't expected and it is causing a problem with saving. This might mean you have entered words in a box that expects numbers, for example.