Learning Support Assistant [SEN]
Wimbledon College, London, SW19 4NSThis job expired on 14 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
14 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours, 5 days per week, 39 weeks per year [also one year fixed term sabbatical cover post required]
Contract type
- Fixed term - One year or the return of the post holder if sooner - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,729 - £28,929
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Good reading, writing, numeracy skills and a knowledge of basic ICT to support learning.
- Ability to use clear language to communicate information unambiguously.
- Ability to understand and support children with developmental difficulty or disability.
- Good understanding of the school curriculum; knowledge of literacy/numeracy strategies
- Ability to observe and monitor progress and maintain records; good organisational skills .
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviour and implement the school’s behaviour management policy; remaining calm under pressure.
- Ability to motivate and encourage students; establish rapport and respectful and trusting relationships staff, pupils and parents .
- Ability to work well within a supportive teamwork structure; being able to take direction but be prepared to take initiative when required.
- Personal Qualities: Reliability - to have an excellent attendance record, being punctual, present a smart appearance, organised, resourceful, enthusiastic, approachable and empathetic.
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and discretion at all times.
- Ability to adopt a flexible approach to working.
- Desire to enhance and develop skills through performance appraisal and training.
- Recognition of the importance of personal responsibility for data protection, confidentiality, safeguarding and Health and Safety .
- Supportive of the Jesuit ethos of the school.
What the school offers its staff
- Term-time hours (based on 39 weeks per year: term time plus 5 days)
- Pro Rata 6.8 weeks p.a. holiday Pay, spread over monthly payments: Actual Pro rata Salary £22,679 - £23,661p.a.)
- A warm friendly community where all are respected and valued
- Good opportunities for personal and career development.
- Pension Scheme.
- Free access to employee assistance programme.
- Situated minutes from Wimbledon Common and Village, with exceptional facilities on site for staff including swimming pool and gym.
- Great transport links with Bus, Train, Tube and Tram stops nearby.
Further information about the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a strong candidate to support teaching and learning at Wimbledon College. Duties would include working with boys who have a range of learning difficulties and providing personal care. Experience of working with pupils with special educational needs would be an advantage but not essential. This position is also ideal for a graduate, with a Mathematics, English or Science degree, who may be seeking experience before joining the teaching profession or an LSA seeking a new challenge.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 15th July, in person at Wimbledon College. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted on Monday 14th July.
Commitment to safeguarding
At Wimbledon College we recognise our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils.
We make every effort to provide an environment in which children and adults feel safe, secure, valued and respected, and feel confident to talk if they are worried, believing they will be effectively listened to.
We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and follow our procedures to ensure that children receive effective support, protection and justice. Child protection forms part of the school’s safeguarding policy.
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About Wimbledon College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1258 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wimbledon College website
- Email address
- collegesecretary@wimbledoncollege.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 879 9323
Wimbledon College is a popular and oversubscribed school which prides itself on its exam results at both GCSE and A level with results significantly above national averages. As a Jesuit school, our ethos can be summed up by St Ignatius Loyola’s vision for Jesuit schools as being “for improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.” Central to St Ignatius’ vision and to the College is the education of the whole person, providing each pupil with the opportunity to strive for excellence in all that they do.
The school is accommodated in striking Grade II listed buildings on Edge Hill, above the parish church of the Sacred Heart, on a spacious green site in a conservation area. Private and public funds have facilitated a substantial development of the facilities of the College over the last fifteen years.
The College currently has close to 1300 boys on roll including 270 in the Sixth Form. It is a great place to work with a supportive, committed staff who share the school’s high expectations. All teachers are specialists in their subjects and there is a well-established CPD programme which encourages staff to work collaboratively on self-identified areas of research and pedagogy.
Wimbledon College has a strong system of pastoral care and discipline. All teachers are form tutors and work with Heads of Line in ensuring every boy is supported, cared for and challenged to progress academically and become involved in the wider life of the school. The school’s intake is truly comprehensive academically, socially and economically and ethnically. It draws from across southwest London and from Surrey and north of the Thames also. Last year saw boys join the College from over 40 different schools. Places in Y7 are regularly oversubscribed threefold.
We encourage all of our boys to be involved in extra-curricular clubs and activities and we offer over 80 different such opportunities to the boys. The school has a strong tradition of drama and music as well as a very extensive sports programme in the school, financially supported by parents’ donations to the School Fund.
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