Independent Schools Association (ISA)
Learning Support Assistant
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This role involves supporting learners in Key Stage 3 and 4 with additional needs. These may include Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and Anxiety. The role will primarily involve supporting the learners to successfully access the curriculum. Candidates should have experience of working with neurodivergent individuals, preferably in a secondary school environment.
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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.
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