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  • Start date details

    TBC

  • Closing date

    27 September 2025 at 12:59am

  • Date listed

    5 September 2025

Job details

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Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£19,531.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 4 - Point 7 (£13.69 per hour)

Learning Partner (LP4) job summary

About you

We are looking to appoint a Learning Partner who would like to work somewhere that could make a real difference to children’s lives. You will join our dedicated and friendly team to support teaching staff with their responsibility for the development and education of pupils, some of whom may have a wide range of special needs.

The Role

The successful candidate will be a hardworking, enthusiastic individual that wants to be part of a warm, welcoming Special School and should have a passion for working with special educational needs and disabilities, which include severe learning difficulties; physical difficulties; profound and multiple learning difficulties; severe autism and challenging behaviours.

The Trust

We are passionate that every child deserves the very best education. As a partnership we will: improve outcomes, opportunities and life chances for children and young people, offer more / wider support for their families and share and develop staff expertise.

Our Benefits

By joining our team, we can offer you, generous annual leave allowance, generous pension scheme (TPS), Employee Assistance Program & Counselling, Occupational Health Service, Continuing Professional Development and Staff Get Staff Referral Scheme. Applications for flexible working or job share will be considered on an individual basis.

Additional Information

SAND Academies Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. As part of our Safe Recruitment Practice, we will need a completed application form before any offers, and all staff will require safeguarding/pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS, satisfactory health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Please ensure that you have read and understood the information within the Candidate Information pack and understood our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders which can be found on our careers page.

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

SAND Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. All staff will require pre-employment checks including enhanced DBS, satisfactory Health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Applicants who have lived or worked overseas within the last 10 years must provide an equivalent DBS certificate or Police clearance from the country that they resided or worked in. Prohibition checks will be completed if necessary. Applicants should read the Information Pack, Safeguarding Information and Privacy Notice prior to submitting application.

Applying for the job

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

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About Battledown School

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 11
School size
70 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Ofsted report
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Battledown Centre for Children & Families is part of SAND Academies Trust and is a school for pupils with a range of special needs, aged 2-11, based in Cheltenham.

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