Learning Support Assistant - Chester This role will give you great foundations in Mental Health and SEND education to take into your Criminal and Youth Justice aspirations, especially if you aspire to work in Criminal, Youth Justice, Social justice. We require someone who wants to sincerely advocate for SEMH children, understanding the student’s successes and challenges, all seen through a clinical and progressive and pragmatic lens. Youth and Community, Psychology & Criminology Graduates required for this Learning Support Assistant role, you will be working with children aged 11-18 who have low tolerance levels for stress. If you have ambitions within advocacy and social care, this is a good role to start in. If you are not a graduate, I would still love to hear from you and discuss your objectives and where your compassion and empathy comes from for these sectors. Being able to raise student’s emotional & academic attainment is crucial, the ability to connect while also having good academic content is key. But connecting comes first and in an Alternative Provisions and Specialist SEND schools. At the point of referral to the provision many pupils have additional, associated and sometimes complex needs, which may include ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder); ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder); many of the children will have extreme anxiety, pressures from within and outside of school. The school’s...