LSAs - Newport
| Posting date: | 05 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 September 2025 |
| Location: | Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1XW |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | c0e620c6-359a-4c92-b171-efff4de03d1b |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
It is essential that applicants possess the following:
• Experience of working with or caring for children in group setting of relevant school age
• L2 English and maths, or equivalent
• The ability to demonstrate a high level of personal resilience
• Some understanding of, and a willingness to hold safeguarding at the centre of their practice
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• Wonderful students
• The opportunity to be part of an adaptable, committed and skilled staff team
• A creative learning environment, timetable and curriculum
• A wide range of training opportunities for career development
Further details about the role
The community of St George’s empowers everyone to feel safe, valued and welcome.
We work towards our aspirations and celebrate our personal achievements. We learn to make choices that shape our future; enabling us to have our voices heard, be respected, develop resilience and independence to take our place in society.
As an LSA you will work with students at St George’s School and within the community, with complex medical and behavioural challenges, assisting with planning and delivery of the activities within area. You will support other staff to increase their knowledge of individual needs, and work towards implementing specific programs that enable us as a School to respond positively to our students.
Dependant on your skills and relevant experience, the students you support may have a PMLD/ASC diagnosis and require complex medical interventions, in which case it is essential that you are willing to undertake/update specialist training as necessary.
Alternatively, your role may involve providing 1:1 support to one of our KS4 students.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all our staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicant.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
It is essential that applicants possess the following:
• Experience of working with or caring for children in group setting of relevant school age
• L2 English and maths, or equivalent
• The ability to demonstrate a high level of personal resilience
• Some understanding of, and a willingness to hold safeguarding at the centre of their practice
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• Wonderful students
• The opportunity to be part of an adaptable, committed and skilled staff team
• A creative learning environment, timetable and curriculum
• A wide range of training opportunities for career development
Further details about the role
The community of St George’s empowers everyone to feel safe, valued and welcome.
We work towards our aspirations and celebrate our personal achievements. We learn to make choices that shape our future; enabling us to have our voices heard, be respected, develop resilience and independence to take our place in society.
As an LSA you will work with students at St George’s School and within the community, with complex medical and behavioural challenges, assisting with planning and delivery of the activities within area. You will support other staff to increase their knowledge of individual needs, and work towards implementing specific programs that enable us as a School to respond positively to our students.
Dependant on your skills and relevant experience, the students you support may have a PMLD/ASC diagnosis and require complex medical interventions, in which case it is essential that you are willing to undertake/update specialist training as necessary.
Alternatively, your role may involve providing 1:1 support to one of our KS4 students.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all our staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicant.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.