Higher Level Student Support Assistant
Solihull Sixth Form College, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 3WR20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
24 August 2026
Closing date
1 June 2026 at 9am
Date listed
29 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,199.00 - £35,395.00 Annually (FTE) Grade E, points 15 - 18 Actual salary £27,462 to £30,188pa
Higher Level Student Support Assistant job summary
Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement
Success through Endeavour
Ambition through Challenge
Strength through Diversity
Join our friendly, thriving, and supportive colleagues here at Solihull Sixth Form College. We aspire to be outstanding professionally and personally, taking time to invest in everything we do, to develop transformative life chances for all of our leaners and to stretch their potential to the full.
Solihull Sixth Form College is a large, culturally diverse specialist in A Levels and Level 3 BTEC qualifications, and part of the Summit Learning Trust.
You will join a supportive and nurturing Additional Learning Support Team, committed to meeting the ever-changing educational and disability needs of our students. You will play a key role in supporting learners with additional needs, to identify and remove barriers to learning, enabling each learner to fully access their education. You will work closely with teachers and support colleagues and liaise with parents and carers when needed. In addition, you will assist with the Exam Access Arrangements process in collaboration with other team members.
The ideal candidate will be ambitious for our learners and dedicated to helping students with additional needs reach their full potential. This role involves working with students both inside and outside the classroom, collaborating closely with teachers, parents, carers and external agencies and providing support for both academic and personal needs.
You will hold a Level 3 or 4 Teaching Assistant qualification (or equivalent) and have experience supporting others, ideally within a Level 3 post-16 learning environment. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of Exam Access Arrangements and JCQ guidelines, along with experience in leading and supporting staff.
We are happy to explore flexible working, subject to the operational requirements of the role.
Why work for us?
We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth. These include access to:
Employee assistance programme
High quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression.
Wellbeing Advocates
Lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme.
Health Protection Scheme alongside Flu Jab and Eyecare Vouchers
Generous employer pension schemes
We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, or race.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, including a Children’s barred list check. Online searches of shortlisted candidates will also be conducted.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Solihull Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academies, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth form or college
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Solihull Sixth Form College website
Join our friendly, thriving and supportive staff here at Solihull Sixth Form college. We aspire to be outstanding professionally and personally, taking time to invest in everything we do, to develop transformative life chances for all of our students and to stretch their potential to the full.
Solihull Sixth Form College is a large, culturally diverse specialist in A Levels and Level 3 BTEC qualifications, and part of the Summit Learning Trust
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