EYFS Apprentice Learning Support Assistant

Cliff Lane Primary School, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 0PJ

42 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  6 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £7.55 Hourly Apprentice Rate: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

EYFS Apprentice Learning Support Assistant job summary

Contract Details : Part time 32.5 hours per week (1 day in college) 39 weeks per year

**** TO APPLY FOR THIS VACANCY YOU MUST APPLY VIA MY NEW TERM AND VIA THE COLLEGE**** AFTER WE HAVE RECEIVED YOUR MY NEW TERM APPLICATION YOU WILL BE SENT A LINK TO COMPLETE FOR THE COLLEGE. PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THIS WILL BE DURING WORKING HOURS.

The form can be found also be found on the Suffolk New College website.

Cliff Lane is an established primary school with a PAN of 476 pupils including the nursery based in Ipswich. We are part of a thriving multi-academy trust, ASSET Education. We are looking for an EYFS Apprentice LSA to join our school. We are passionate and fully committed to providing the very best education for all of our pupils - we believe in all our children - that they can do it right, do it well, and do it!

The person we are looking for needs to :

• Have the ability to create a happy, challenging and effective learning environment.
  

• A lively, creative and good-humoured approach.
  

• Be efficient and able to use own initiative.

• Work well as part of a team.

This post will be reporting directly to the Headteacher and will be based at Cliff Lane Primary School.

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged and warmly welcomed. For further details, or to arrange an initial discussion with the Headteacher Mrs Carrie Broom, please contact :

Claire Pearson on 01473 251604 or email : claire.pearson@clifflaneprimary.co.uk

Please also see our website - https://www.clifflaneprimary.co.uk

ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.

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.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Cliff Lane Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 454 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cliff Lane Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cliff-lane-primary-school

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