Learning Support Assistant

The Grove, London, N17 6AR

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  November 2025 or sooner

• Closing date

  22 September 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  9 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £11,122.27 - £11,512.43 Annually (Actual)

Learning Support Assistant job summary

The Grove School, part of the SEARCH Education Trust, is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and young people. The successful applicant will therefore be required to complete checks in line with the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education with regard to DBS and other pre-employment checks.

We encourage applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population.

Salary: Scale 4 at £30,288 to £31,661 pro rata, actual salary £11,122.27 to £11,512.43

Employer: The Grove

Location: Haringey

Contract Term: 14.4 hours (2 days per week) x 40 weeks

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: 22nd September 2025 at 9am

The Grove vision is to make a difference and change lives for the better.

We are an outstanding special school for children and young people with autism. We are a thriving school with a dedicated staff team who work hard to ensure our pupils are supported to achieve their full potential. Community values and partnership are at the heart of what we do and we are all immensely proud to be part of this successful school.

We are looking to appoint a Learning Support Assistants who want to be part of our vision and join our expanding team. Staff may work across the school within our primary department or one of our two secondary departments which cater for pupils who are working at early pre-key stage standards through to those working at Entry Levels and GCSE.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated staff who have an outstanding track record and are ready for an exciting new challenge. We are a strong learning community that strives to make what we offer to our staff, pupils and families the best it can be. If you share these values, then we want you to join our team!

We are committed to the development of our staff and provide a pathway for career progression such as training towards scale 5 posts, HLTA posts, our aspiring teacher programme and routes into the teacher training apprenticeship.

The successful candidates will make an important contribution to the school ethos. Their role will include supporting pupils on a daily basis, supporting small learning groups, working with staff to ensure an inclusive approach and working collaboratively to support the learning needs of pupils on the autistic spectrum.

The successful candidate will have:

• Some experience of working with pupils with additional needs including autism

• A flexible and proactive approach to supporting pupils

• Ability to communicate well with pupils, teachers and adults

• Completion, or the readiness to complete, the LSA induction programme

• Some understanding of the issues relating to child development and inclusion

• A commitment to safeguarding children.

For further information please contact our school office 020 3876 6555 or at office@thegroveschool.co.uk Application packs can also be downloaded from the school website:

www.thegroveschool.co.uk

Closing Date is on the 22nd of September 2025 at 9am but applications received before are welcomed and will be considered.

NB: Please note that in line with the new Keeping Children Safe in Education updates, an online search will be conducted as part of our due diligence checks on all shortlisted candidates. CV's or incomplete application forms will not be considered. Only those that are shortlisted will be contacted by the school. Applications may be considered whilst the posts are being advertised. Search Education Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated deadline. We advise early applications are submitted.

Please note if you do not hear from us it is likely your application has not been successful. Kindly note due to the large volume of applications we are unable to provide feedback at the initial stage.

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 The Grove

• School type: Free School, ages 5 to 19
• School size: 147 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Grove website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-grove-london

The Grove is a brand new special school for young people with autism, opened in September 2018. As our school moves into its second year, we transfer to our newly refurbished site near Turnpike Lane and expand our intake of pupils.

We are opening, in September, two new KS3 classes for 8 academically able autistic pupils. We will provide an alternative to mainstream education for these youngsters who, for many reasons, have not been successful in the mainstream setting.
This provision will expand to include KS2 and KS4 pupils reaching a capacity of 16-20 pupils over two years.

The school, which is currently based on a split site has 45 students on roll with complex autism across primary, secondary and post 16. The addition of a new department will create 4 distinct departments as we grow to full capacity of 104 by 2021, 88 of those places for young people with complex autism between the ages of 5-19 and 16 places for those who are academically able between the ages of 7-16.

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