Learning Support Practitioner - Sacred Heart Primary
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Sacred Heart Primary School is looking for a Learning Support Assistant to join their team. The successful candidate will support learning and development throughout the school, working with children who have Autism, ADHD, and Global Development Delay. Responsibilities include effective classroom practice, motivating children, and working as part of a team. Experience with SEN pupils, behaviour management, and parental engagement is required.
Job Details
Sacred Heart Primary School is a two form-entry primary school in Tipton for children from 3 to 11 years of age.
Our vision is to develop young people who will have active and creative minds, a sense of understanding and compassion for others, and the courage to act on their beliefs. We stress the total development of each child: spiritual, moral, intellectual, social, emotional, cultural and physical. We are a richly diverse community, and pride ourselves on our highly inclusive practice, endorsed by achieving the Sandwell Inclusion Quality Mark for the second time at the highest level (Enhanced level).
The Governors at Sacred Heart Primary School are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Learning Support Assistant to join our Team.
We are looking for a successful candidate who will be responsible for supporting learning & development throughout the school. We are looking for the successful candidate to:
- Have proven effective classroom practice throughout Primary School children.
- Be a professional who enjoys motivating and exciting children about learning.
- Work effectively as part of a team.
- Experience with working with children who have Autism, ADHD, and Global Development Delay.
- Have experience with SEN pupils.
- Have a calm, nurturing approach when dealing with behaviour management.
- Preferably, to have experience in delivering early phonics or language programmes.
- Have good working practice of parental engagement.
- Austism experience
- Speech and Language experience
- Good behaviour management and experience of challenging behaviour
- Experience in using PECS, Makaton and with challenging behaviour.
Why work at Sacred Heart Primary School?
- Wonderful children
- Supportive Community
- Supportive staff
- Staff well being is at the heart of all that we do.
- Modern, state of the art school building
- Supportive SLT
- Team building days
- Staff development and training
Sacred Heart Primary School always welcomes visits. Tours of the School are encouraged and can be made via appointment through contacting Mrs Elwart, the Office Manager to arrange an appointment: Email – [contact hidden] or call - [contact hidden].
An application form can be downloaded from the website: www.sacredheartprisch.com/vacancies/ or alternatively below and completed Application forms should be sent directly to [contact hidden]
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake all relevant safeguarding checks and an enhanced DBS check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and is eligible for an enhanced DBS check including a Children's Barring List Check. If you are barred from working with children you are breaking the law if you apply for this post
Please ensure application forms are signed if sending via email.
If you have provided an email address, correspondence will be sent via e-mail.
CV’s will not be accepted.
Successful applicants will be contacted with an interview date. If you are successful in being short-listed for interview, you will be contacted via email within 28 working days of the closing date. Please ensure you check your junk/spam boxes as well as your inbox in case any correspondence has been delivered there.
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, we have a positive approach to employing disabled people and guarantee an interview for applicants who disclose they would like to be considered under this scheme and meet the essential criteria.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, be sure to include these on your application.
Online Search
An online search will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates. This search does not form part of the shortlisting process and you will have the opportunity to discuss any issues of concern that may arise from this search at the interview.
Further information relating to our school, including our policies can be found on our website - https://www.sacredheartprisch.com
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Hours: 32.5 hrs per week - 08:30 am to 3:30 pm, Term Time plus 5 INSET Days
Grade: Grade D, SCP 9-17 (£27,254- £31,022 p.a.) Actual Salary - £21,361 p.a. - £24,943p.a.
Location: Sacred Heart Primary School, Sedgley Road East, Tipton, DY4 8UH
Closing Date: 1st May 2026 - Midday
Shortlisting will take place Tuesday 5th May 2026
Interviews will take place on Thursday 7th May 2026