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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    14 July 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    1 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 30.33 Hours a week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Grade 3 Point 4-6

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assist in the implementation and running of programs aimed at promoting pupil progress and social development.
  • Provide support for individual students, especially those transitioning to secondary education.
  • Support differentiation of teaching and learning.
  • Work with other professionals as necessary.
  • Support students with emotional or behavioral problems and help develop their social/emotional skills.
  • Keep records of support/intervention strategies and assist in monitoring student progress.

Administrative Duties:

  • Support class teachers in differentiation and other tasks.
  • Track pupil progress data.
  • Undertake other duties as required by the head teacher.

Standards and Quality Assurance:

  • Support the aims and ethos of the school.
  • Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality, and attendance.
  • Attend team and staff meetings.
  • Be proactive in health and safety matters.
  • Commit to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Person Specification:

  • Ability to support the effective inclusion of individual children and small groups.
  • Understanding of child development and learning processes.
  • Ability to relate well to children and adults.
  • Empathy and understanding for children with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
  • Good literacy and numeracy skills.

Experience (Advantageous but not required):

  • Experience working with students below age expectations.
  • Knowledge of the Primary School curriculum or experience in a Special School setting.
  • Supporting children with Special Educational Needs or behavioral needs.

What the school offers its staff

Job Title: Learning Support Assistant (LSA)

Location: Aldridge School, part of The Mercian Trust

Role Overview: The Learning Support Assistant (LSA) will assist in the educational and social development of students, particularly those with special educational needs. The LSA will work under the direction of the head teacher, SENCO, and PLC manager to support individual students both inside and outside the classroom, promoting their inclusion and progress.

Interviews on the 16th July.

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process


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.

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About Aldridge School - A Science College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1585 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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We are a comprehensive school of over 1500 students situated near the centre of Aldridge village. We believe that it is our responsibility to work to meet the needs of every individual student, challenging them to achieve their best, supporting them to become responsible young adults and preparing them for their next steps into the world of work or further education.

Aldridge School is a good school (Ofsted 2022).  It is a school which is proud of its traditions and successes which have been achieved through hard work and high expectations. In particular, we encourage our students to be Respectful, Responsible, Resilient and Ready to learn in order that they will be happy and successful at school and in the wider world beyond.

 Aldridge School has a dedicated, talented and conscientious team of staff who work together to provide a high standard of teaching, excellent pastoral care and professional support services. Our broad curriculum is designed to meet national expectations, be relevant and interesting, support our students in achieving the best possible standards in external examinations and to equip them with the skills they need to be successful in adult life.

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