Learning Support Assistant

Great Hockham Primary School and Nursery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 1PB

60 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  28 October 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  28 August 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: £8,779 - £9,223 actual per annum

Learning Support Assistant job summary

• Salary: £8,779 - £9,223 actual per annum (SCP 4-6)
• Fixed Term - One Year (pupil specific)
• Part Time
• 15 hours per week (08:40-11:40am M-F)
• Term time + 1 week

Great Hockham Primary School is looking to appoint a reliable and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our friendly and happy team in September 2025. The successful candidate will support the professional work of teachers as directed.

This role will be supporting a number of students with a range of special education needs in Year 5 and Year 6 to make excellent progress academically, socially and emotionally. 

Great Hockham Primary School is a member of the Sapientia Education Trust (SET). SET is an expanding multi-academy trust with 13 primary and 9 secondary schools.  

Experience working in a classroom environment is highly desirable, alongside the ability to clearly communicate and always work with the best interests of the pupils in mind. 

Specific responsibilities include:

• To attend to the personal and social needs of pupils and any other special requirements depending on the nature of a pupil’s special needs and, wherever possible, making these part of the learning experience;
• Promote inclusion and acceptance of pupils while encouraging constructive relationships within the classroom and with parents;
• Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes;
• Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses, including undertaking literacy and numeracy programmes, recording achievement and progress and feeding back to the teacher.

How to Apply:

A job description can be found under Attachments.

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Closing date: Applications to be reviewed upon receipt. 

Interview date: TBC

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education September 2022, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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.

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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 Great Hockham Primary School and Nursery

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 109 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Great Hockham Primary School and Nursery website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-hockham-primary-school-and-nursery-thetford

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