Learning Support Assistant
Hightown Primary School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 6AA7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
27 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 June 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
- £24,405.00 - £29,616.00 Annually (FTE) Scale C-D. See Trust Pay Policy for further details
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Hours: To be negotiated. Minimum of 22.5hrs per week. However, we are able to offer a contract of up to 28.75 hours. Hours can be worked flexibly across the week.
Actual Salary: £12,660 (22.5hrs) to £16,177 (28.75hrs)
This is a permanent role
Join Us in Making a Real Difference at Hightown Primary School
We are a school where you’ll feel part of something truly special — a place where every child is known, valued, and supported.
At Hightown Primary School and Nursery our dedicated and skilled team of practitioners champion a culture of nurture, respect, and resilience, ensuring that all children are inspired to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Why Choose Us?
We’re part of Inspire Learning Partnership, a forward-thinking, research-led Trust that puts people first. When you join us, you’re not just taking a job — you’re joining a community where your voice is heard, your development is invested in, and your wellbeing is genuinely prioritised.
What We Offer:
- 🧘 Staff wellbeing at the core of our culture, not just in policy but in practice
- 💫 Be part of a Trust that’s small enough to know you, but big enough to invest in you
- 🌱 A tailored induction and clear, supportive, career development pathways
- 🧠 A research-led culture where innovation, curiosity and brave thinking are encouraged
- 🏖️ Longer holidays than maintained schools, including a 2-week October half-term
- 💬 Access to high quality professional development, collaborative networks and inspiring colleagues
- 💰 Competitive salary
- 🚴 Blue Light Card, Cycle to Work scheme, Halfords & Tredz discount
You'll be a fantastic fit if you:
✨Are enthusistic, innovative and keen to develop yourself as a professional
- 🛡️ Are committed to safeguarding and supporting all pupils to thrive
🤝 Value collaboration and want to contribute to a wider professional community
- 🌍 Want to be the change in a child's life
🏗️ Believe in building strong, collaborative, relationships with pupils, families, and colleagues
- 📅 Appreciate the flexibilty the role affords
Come and See for Yourself
We’d love to show you around and share what makes our school and Trust so special. If you’re curious or ready to apply, get in touch to arrange a visit:
📧 info.hps@ilpartnership.org
Early applications are strongly encouraged — we reserve the right to interview exceptional candidates before the closing date.
Our Commitment to Safeguarding
Inspire Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
An enhanced DBS check is required for all roles in regulated activity. The specific safeguarding responsibilities of this role are outlined within Part One of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.
Further details concerning our safeguarding policies and procedures, including our statement on the Rehabilitation of Offenders, can be found on the Trust website.
As part of our due diligence and in line with the recommendation made in Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust reserves the right to undertake online searches on shortlisted candidates. Further details about our searches can be found within our Recruitment Policy.
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 are not accepted.
About Hightown Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 178 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hightown Primary School website
Hightown Primary School is a member of the multi-academy trust Inspire Learning Partnership and benefits from the many opportunities being part of this Trust offers to all its staff and pupils. The school benefits from a fantastic large outdoor space, which enhances our teaching and learning journey.
We are situated on edge of Southampton with great access links to the motorway and all the surrounding areas.
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