Learning Support Assistant (30 hours)

St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 9RJ

16 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 November 2025

• Closing date

  21 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  5 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 4, £24,790 pro rata per annum

Learning Support Assistant (30 hours) job summary

Learning Support Assistant / Midday Meals Supervisor

St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.

Salary: Grade 4, £24,790 pro rata per annum

Start Date: December 2025

Contract: 30hrs per week 39 weeks per year (Term Time plus 1 week) - Permanent

We are looking to recruit a Learning Support Assistant with some responsibility for EHCP pupils, some responsibility for pupils with medical needs and some whole class responsibility. The EHCP pupils may need support with communication to access learning within the classroom and to interact with their peers. This role also includes playground supervision at break and lunchtimes.

We are committed to an inclusive approach to the education of all our pupils and the successful candidate will support this approach through their role.

We are looking for an applicant who:

• has experience of working with children
• is passionate about enabling all children to achieve as well as they possibly can whatever their starting point
• has a clear idea of strategies to encourage appropriate behaviour choices and is able to apply these in a classroom situation and outside of the classroom
• will support children of all abilities
• is flexible, well-motivated and is able to work on their own initiative,
• is a good team player
• will make a positive contribution to our school community
• is willing to, or has specific experience of, working with SEND pupils
• is willing to run interventions
• is willing to attend to pupils personal needs including social, welfare and health matters
• is willing to implement actions and strategies suggested by outside agencies

Closing date for applications: 21st November 2025 9am

Interview date: TBC

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.

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 St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 418 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-wilfrid-s-catholic-primary-school-rh15-9rj

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