Learning Support Assistant

Working closely within the LEAPS Team and other experienced teaching professionals providing support and guidance, your role will be to:

• Develop an understanding of the learners' profiles and SEN.
• Support the learners in accessing their curriculum, academically, organisationally and emotionally, by building trust and developing a positive relationship.
• Consider the learners' SEN when assisting them in accessing the content of lessons, through the use of appropriate clarification, explanation, equipment and materials; developing an understanding of the most effective way in which to support learning for a given task.
• Help the learners to learn as effectively as possible, both in group situations and individually, inside and outside of the classroom.
• Promote academic independence, whilst helping the learners to develop effective study skills, including strategies to support their executive functioning skills, to increase motivation and keep them on task.
• Encourage social independence, whilst scaffolding interactions and helping to mediate any issues with peers, as well as supporting the learners to develop positive relationships with their teachers.
• Support emotional independence by promoting strategies to help regulate the learners' emotional and physical state.