Band B Learning Support Assistant Cover Posts
Merstone School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B36 0UEThis job expired on 10 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Part time: This post is open to applicants that can work between 2 days to 5 days per week (Minimum hours 13 hours/ Maximum hours 32.5 hours per week). Same days each week. Working Hours 8.30am to 3.30pm.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 Academic Year
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,027 - £24,790
Actual salary
- £18,092 – £18,667
What skills and experience we're looking for
Band BLearning Support Assistants - Cover Staff - Fixed Term Posts
Post: Learning Support Assistants to include Personal and Medical Care Support
(Fixed Term Posts until 31st August 2026)
Salary: B Band - £24,027 - £24,790 (pro-rata) £18,092 – £18,667 (Actual Salary)
(This is subject to qualifications and experience and actual days worked)
Start date: ASAP
A fantastic opportunity to work across Forest Oak and Merstone Schools.
Both schools are Ofsted rated outstanding and this is a wonderful opportunity for anyone looking to start a career in SEND education and care.
We are seeking to appoint at least 4 highly motivated and enthusiastic Band B Learning Support Assistants to be part of our schools who have a fun-loving positive attitude that makes every pupil feel valued as playing and interacting with the learners is essential. You will be involved in the day-to-day education and care of children and young people with a wide range of SEND aged from 3 -19 years and could be at any one of our school sites to include;
- Pebbles Nursery
- Forest Oak School
- Merstone School
- Oakwood Centre
- Woodlands Campus
Each morning you will be allocated your placement for the day. This will give you a wide range of experiences and opportunities to work across ages and phases and to support a wide range of SEND to include MLS, SLD, PMLD, ASD and ADHD. You will be joining a fantastic, hardworking and experienced staff team who will encourage and support you to grow and develop.
You will need;
- A high level of multitasking is essential - this is a busy hardworking environment and on a daily basis you could be working at any site in our schools
- A calm and sensitive approach, combined with patience, tolerance, stamina, and humour
- A willingness to learn and develop your own skills and abilities to best support our pupils
- Resilience, as there are times when things are a challenge both mentally and physically
- To build positive and supportive relationships
- To be a team player, resilient, and motivated by challenge
- To have the ability to think creatively
Finally, you must be prepared to feel special and important to many children and young people and their families. There is simply no other job quite like it.
The role
The role is for 8.30 – 3.30 Monday to Friday. We are looking to appoint up to 8 people for these roles, working either 2 ,3, 4 or 5 days a week. You will need to be able to work set days, the same days every week. Please indicate on your application form what days you would be prepared to work.
We are dedicated to providing a range of induction and continuing professional development opportunities to the successful candidates and look forward to hearing from applicants with suitable skills and experience. In the supporting statement part of your application, you should clearly specify the following;
Essential/ Desirable;
- NNEB/ NVQ 2 /BTEC or other relevant childcare or healthcare qualification desirable
- GCSE Maths & English Pass or Reading & Writing Skills and Numeracy Skills NVQ Level 2 essential
- SEN experience desirable
- Recent experience of working with children in a learning environment desirable
- Ability to work positively with parents, school nurses and other professionals to improve the support for the pupil essential
- Medical care experience desirable
- Basic knowledge of First Aid desirable
Would you like to be part of the team? If so, download the information and application pack and return your completed application form to office@merstone.solihull.sch.uk or contact school for more information.
Closing date: Thursday 10th July 2025 at 9.00am
Interview date: TBC
What the school offers its staff
We are dedicated to providing a range of induction and continuing professional development opportunities to the successful candidates and look forward to hearing from applicants with suitable skills and experience.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Merstone School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment practices including satisfactory references and the successful candidate will require an enhanced DBS check. We undertake an online search of shortlisted candidates as part of the recruitment process.
Solihull Council is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves.
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About Merstone School
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 171 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Merstone School website
- Email address
- office@merstone.solihull.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0121 717 1040
Merstone is a vibrant, inclusive special school for pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties, aged from 2-19 years. Ofsted judged the school to be Outstanding (2011, 2014, 2017 and 2023). We are federated with Forest Oak School, for pupils with MLD, with whom we share a campus. We have a well-resourced building.
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