Learning Coach - BSL

Avanti House School, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 2EQ

18 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  7 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share): 0.69309 - 37 weeks - 32.5 hours
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Support Grade 3

What skills and experience we're looking for

While we would ideally like candidates to hold a Level 2 or Level 3 qualification in British Sign Language (BSL), we recognise that valuable skills and experience can be gained through a variety of routes. We therefore welcome applications from individuals who are currently working towards these qualifications or who can demonstrate strong BSL knowledge, practical communication skills, and relevant experience, even if they do not yet hold a formal qualification. For the right candidate, we are willing to be flexible and consider equivalent skills, experience, and commitment to ongoing professional development.​

Avanti House Secondary School is seeking committed and compassionate Learning Coaches to support pupils in reaching their full potential.

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In this role, you will support tailored interventions, promote positive behaviour, and help create an environment where all pupils can succeed.

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You will work as part of a collaborative team committed to high standards and inclusive practice.

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What will you do?

• Build strong, supportive relationships with pupils, delivering tailored one-to-one and small group interventions that meet individual learning, social and emotional needs.
• Support inclusive learning by working closely with teachers to adapt resources, implement strategies (including SEND and EAL support), and ensure all pupils can access and engage with the curriculum.
• Promote positive behaviour and emotional regulation, using consistent strategies to support pupils’ wellbeing and readiness to learn.
• Collaborate with colleagues, families and external professionals to monitor progress, share insights and contribute to effective support planning.
• Uphold safeguarding responsibilities and contribute to the wider life of the school, including enrichment activities, displays, trips and ongoing professional development.

What are we looking for?

• Evidence of strong communication skills
• An understanding of classroom roles and responsibilities
• An ability to understand the principles of child development and learning processes and in particular barriers to learning
• Ability to relate well to children and adults to build and maintain effective relationships
• Commitment to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

​Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.​

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

What the school offers its staff

You will be working in a fantastic environment.

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

We offer a range of staff benefits including professional development opportunities, retail discounts, flexible working options, well-being programs, and more

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

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

The-Avanti-Way-2024.pdf - 354 KB (opens in new tab)

Learning Coach JD Template.pdf - 256 KB (opens in new tab)

About Avanti House School

• School type: Free School, Hindu, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1182 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Avanti House School website
• Email address: talent@avanti.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/avanti-house-school

Avanti House Secondary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school based in Harrow, open to students of all faiths.

What makes Avanti Secondary School distinctive is its values-based approach to education. This encourages students to value self, others and the environment and empowers them to be effective learners as well as good citizens. The school offers a traditional and extensive curriculum, but also offers a focused study of Ethics, Philosophy, Sanskrit, Meditation and Yoga.

In 2022 our Year 11 students gained excellent GCSE examination results with 89% of students gaining at least a Grade 4 in both their Mathematics and English qualifications. Students gained excellent results in a wide range of subjects across the curriculum and many have progressed into our Sixth Form. Our Sixth Form has grown from an initial 36 students in 2018 to over 320 this year. This highlights the quality of the teaching and learning across the school and the vast majority of the pupils studying in our Sixth Form progress onto their first choice universities and apprenticeship schemes.

A wide range of extra-curricular opportunities enable the students to develop their own characters and become outstanding citizens. Our most recent Ofsted highlights that the behaviour and attitudes shown by pupils and adults are exemplary and the provision for pupils, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is exceptional.

Avanti House Secondary School is based in a large site in Wemborough Road, Stanmore. The multi-million pound complex boasts state of the art science labs, computing rooms, design and technology workshops and classrooms that will enable students to make outstanding progress through exceptional teaching and learning. The fantastic sports and arts facilities also enable the students to excel and further develop their passions in these areas through extra-curricular activities and our successful sports teams.

Arranging a visit to Avanti House School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.

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