Learning Support Assistant
Wadham School, Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 7NT12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
4 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week/ Term time only plus INSET days (with attendance to departmental meetings on Mondays until 4.15PM)
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £16,682-£16,943
Pay scale
- Grade 15 pt. 3-4
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary Scale: Grade 15 pt. 3-4 (Actual salary £16,682-£16,943)
30 hours per week/ Term time only plus INSET days
(with attendance to departmental meetings on Mondays until 4.15PM)
Starting: September 2025
Closing Date for Applications: Friday 04 July 2025
We are seeking a passionate, energetic and ambitious Learning Support Assistant to join our expanding team of staff at Wadham School. This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our school where staff morale is high and classrooms are quiet and purposeful places where learning takes place (Ofsted 2025)
We are a close-knit community secondary school of 760 students with an amazing team of staff that support each other in helping our students become the successful and confident global citizens they deserve to be. As the last local authority maintained secondary school in Somerset, this is your chance to come and be part of something unique
This role would suit candidates looking to work 30 hours per week in a busy and thriving school environment, where every day is different and you can make a difference to the students and staff, as well as the wider school community
We are looking for an outstanding individual who will relish the opportunity to:
- Demonstrate good levels of Literacy and Numeracy skills
- Be organised and efficient in a fast-paced environment
- Communicate both orally and in your written work with a range of students of all abilities
- Use integrity, flexibility and your own initiative
- Enjoy working with young people and helping them achieve their very best potential in the classroom
You are likely to be someone who:
- Has previous knowledge/ training in Child Protection, Safeguarding and Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE2025) or be willing to train
- Has experience of working in an educational setting supporting students with medical conditions
- Has experience and knowledge of students social, emotional and mental health needs
- Is calm, confident and professional at all times
- Has excellent ICT skills in Microsoft Office programmes
- Can demonstrate the skills to communicate and build professional relationships
What the school offers its staff
- Part time hours with term time only (plus INSET days) working days
- Voluntary pension scheme through Somerset County Council
- Onsite parking (on a first come - first served basis)
- Training and CPD in safeguarding, health and safety and other relevant courses
- Strong and supportive leadership, who place value on learning beyond the classroom
- Fulfilment, in knowing that you matter, and the work you do makes a positive difference to the lives you touch
Further details about the role
For job description/person specification and an application form please visit our website: www.wadhamschool.co.uk
Please Note: we do not accept applications by CV
Visits to the school or an informal talk with the Headteacher are warmly encouraged.
For all enquires please contact recruitment@wadhamschool.co.uk or telephone 01460 270127
Wadham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks and information on the public domain on social media platforms.
“Life in all its fullness” – John 10:10
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Wadham School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 805 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wadham School website
- Email address
- recruitment@wadhamschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01460 270127
Are you looking to work in a Good school (Ofsted, June 2019) with a community working together for the best possible outcomes for young people?
Wadham School is friendly, vibrant and forward looking. It is an exciting time at Wadham School. We strive to be a school which uses an evidence based approach to teaching and an ethos and drive for the school to be much more than just learning in lessons. A varied programme of extra-curricular activities and house competitions provides an exciting opportunity for staff to be involved in the wider school community. At our core is an aim, through everything that we do, to develop a sense of hope, a hope which will encourage and support students in becoming the best that they can be.
The school serves a beautiful area of South Somerset with excellent links to the wider South West, Bristol and Bath and direct train links to London from Crewkerne itself and Taunton.
If the above gives you a picture of a community that you would be excited to be part of then the students and staff at Wadham School invite your application and would love to meet you.
Arranging a visit to Wadham School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@wadhamschool.co.uk.
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