Learning Support Assistants

Job details

Job role: - Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern: Part time: 35 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Pay scale: N4 SCP7 - SCP9 FTE: £26,403 - £27,254 £21,447.00 - £22,138.00 actual salary pro-rata (hourly rate £13.69 - £14.13)

What skills and experience we're looking for

This role is perfect for a positive and professional individual with:

• GCSEs Grade C+/4+ (or equivalent) in Maths and English
• Relevant transferable experience. For example: working with children in education, health or care settings
• Aclear vision of how the role can be used to ensure pupil progression and effective delivery of their learning
• The ability to work constructively as part of a Team

What the school offers its staff

The Trust is proud to say that we match the Real Living Wage and we also offer successful candidates:

• A friendly and supportive team of staff who are willing to share expertise and learn from one another
• Opportunities for career development and support with development through Trust wide Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and support from the Trust's Wellbeing Network Group
• Access to either Teacher's Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme, each with favourable employer contribution rates
• Employee centred policies that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Funded eye tests for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
• Bike 2 Work scheme

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please note that applicants to the recent advert which closed on 23.02.2026 need not reapply.

Passionate about helping every child succeed?You might be an ideal candidate for the Learning Support Assistant positions at [Employer hidden].

This role is perfect for a positive and professional individual with:

• GCSEs Grade C+/4+ (or equivalent) in Maths and English
• Relevant transferable experience. For example: working with children in education, health or care settings
• Aclear vision of how the role can be used to ensure pupil progression and effective delivery of their learning
• The ability to work constructively as part of a Team

As a valued member of our team, you will:

• Assist in providing classroom support to pupils with additional needs
• Assist the teacher and other professionals with the development of specialist support and communication skills
• Take a responsive approach to children's needs to help address barriers to learning and well-being
• Demonstrate a calm, confident and professional manner

Does this sound like the perfect role for you?

[Employer hidden] is an alternative provision academy established in September 2018. Based in the West End of Newcastle, the academy works with young people aged 11 to 16 who have been permanently excluded from mainstream education. We provide access to a full-time, broad and balanced education appropriate to pupils’ potential and educational needs and encourage their reintegration back into a mainstream school setting wherever possible. Our young people are also able to access a wide range of therapeutic interventions to support them in recognising and understanding triggers for their behaviours and explore strategies that support them in dealing with these. We recognise that ACEs and traumatic experiences have often impacted upon the lives of our young people and that for many of them not only have they survived but have shown great strength in doing so. At Mary Astell we seek to restore them and help individuals return to a path towards happy and fulfilling adult lives.

To learn more aboutMary Astell AcademyandProsper Learning Trust, please visit the websites.

Prosper Learning Trust was established in January 2018 to help vulnerable young people succeed against the odds.Four core values underpin everything we do as a Trust, these are Aspiration, Integrity, Resilience and Kindness.We are looking for staff who share those values and want to support our young people.

The Trust currently have 5 schools in the region:

• Newcastle Bridges School – Alternative Provision academy offering education to pupils unable to access mainstream school due to medical needs including hospitalised children and young people (3-19 years)
• [Employer hidden] – Alternative Provision academy offering education to permanently excluded pupils and pupils who are struggling in mainstream school (11-16 years)
• Thomas Bewick Special School – Special School academy for pupils with a diagnosis of autism (3-19 years)
• Harry Watts Academy – Special School academy for pupils with a diagnosis of autism (5-16 years)
• Gilbert Ward Academy – Special School academy for pupils with SEMH or a diagnosis of autism (11-16 years)

Prosper Learning Trust was also recently named as the lead partner in the opening of a new Free School in Jarrow, South Tyneside. This school will be a Special School academy for pupils with SEMH (4-11 years).

The successful candidate will be deployed initially at [Employer hidden] but will be expected to work at any Prosper Learning Trust site should the need arise.

Benefits of working for Prosper Learning Trust

The Trust is proud to say that we match the Real Living Wage and we also offer successful candidates:

• A friendly and supportive team of staff who are willing to share expertise and learn from one another
• Opportunities for career development and support with development through Trust wide Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and support from the Trust's Wellbeing Network Group
• Access to either Teacher's Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme, each with favourable employer contribution rates
• Employee centred policies that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Funded eye tests for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
• Bike 2 Work scheme

When completing your supporting statement, please consider the following prompts to help us to understand your skills and experience.

• Supporting Learning:Have you helped someone achieve a goal or overcome barriers?
• Engagement:How have you kept individuals or groups focused?
• Behaviour & Emotional Support: How do you stay calm and build positive relationships?
• Communication:How would you adapt your approach for different people and to respond to children's needs?
• Technology & Resources:Have you used ICT/ how would you prepare resources that meet pupils’ needs and interests?
• Safeguarding:What does it mean to you, and how would you contribute to a healthy, safe, and secure environment for pupils?
• Teamwork:How have you worked constructively with others?

You do not need previous experience in education to apply—what matters most is finding the right person with the right values and transferable skills. If you’ve worked in roles requiring patience, communication, and support you can draw on those experiences. Examples can come from your current or previous profession and will help us see how your skills could make a difference to pupils with additional needs at [Employer hidden].

If you would like to discuss the post before applying contact, Francesca Brown, Deputy Headteacher at [Employer hidden] on [contact hidden] to arrange an informal chat.

For more information on why we think you should work for us see ourTrust website, where you will also findvideosof what our current staff think.

The successful candidate will be welcome into the Trust, so if this sounds like the job foryoupleasedon'thesitate to apply.

Please note that all successful candidates will be required to complete an online pre-employment medical questionnaire.

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.

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