Learning Support Assistant (Tier 2)
Up to 35 hours per week, 38 weeks per year (term time)
£23,630 - £25,656 per annum pro rata

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Learning Support Assistant (LSA) within our Curriculum Services team to work across the following three City College Norwich campuses: Norwich campus, Easton campus and Paston campus, supporting in a range of learning environments and academic areas. We are particularly looking for BSL signers regardless of a Level 2 LSP award.

Applicants for Tier 2 positions will have a full level 3 Learning Support Practitioner Qualification or something similar and a level 3 qualification which is LDD specific e.g., BSL, SpLD, ASD etc. For this tier, you will also have a level C/5 or above GCSE English and maths.

You will have knowledge or willingness to work with students with highly complex needs and the successful applicant/s will be asked to offer personal intimate care, feeding, medication and participate in activities such as swimming and outdoor trips (post covid). Experience and knowledge in both care and education settings would be an advantage.

You will have an appropriate level of literacy, numeracy, and ICT to support alongside practical or subject based knowledge. The most important attribute we look for is the drive to want to support young adults to be independent, confident, and ready for work, irrespective of any barriers to learning.

City College Norwich is a great place to work. We are one of three National SEND Centre for Excellence and are privileged to be part of positive and stepped changed to the SEND sector. As one of the largest colleges in East Anglia we have a large and diverse team of over nine hundred full and part time staff within teaching and support roles and there are opportunities for progression within the workplace. Curriculum Services is a large team with 200 members and by joining us you will part of a large dynamic supportive team, undertaking rewarding life changing work for our SEND students. We operate safe COVID conditions.

If you would like more information about this or the role please contact Shirley Barker, Team Leader at [email protected]

Please click here to view the Job Description and Person Specification

Closing date: Wednesday 25th September 2024 at Midnight

As a College we are required to undertake various Safer Recruitment checks as set out within the guidance from the Department for Education Keeping Child Safe in Education. We require all staff to undertake an enhanced Adult and Child Workforce DBS Check and to register with the DBS Update Service. Please note: From 28 November 2020 the government implemented changes to the filtering rules, and we have been instructed that we cannot accept any update service checks on DBS certificates that have been issued before this date. Therefore, a new one must be completed with City College Norwich.