Learning Support Assistant
The Brittons Academy, Rainham, Essex, RM13 7BB27 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 29 hours a week,39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 1/2 Spinal Point 2-4, Actual salary £19,531-£20,088 per year
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job overview
Teaching Assistant- SEND Support
29 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Our mission is to ‘inspire learners and change lives’ – and that includes our staff. We want to empower our teams, so pupils are ready to be kind, confident and impactful world citizens. The Brittons Academy wish to appoint a dynamic, enthusiastic and high calibre Learning Support Assistant, who will be committed to supporting students with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability).
The successful candidate will have:
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to adapt or modify interactions to meet pupil needs
- Ability to summarise and present information from observations of pupil performance
- Effective time management, planning and collaboration
- Ability to provide a structured activity within a group setting
- Group dynamics and how to apply them
- Obtain and interpret information on pupils’ literacy/numeracy skills, individual learning targets and specific support needs
- Ability to recognise the range and implications of factors that impact pupil behaviour
- Minimum GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Level 2 TA Certificate or equivalent (Desirable)
What the school offers its staff
In return, we offer:
- High quality professional development
- Supportive and friendly colleagues
- Flexible working opportunities
- Staff assistance programme including virtual GP appointments, counselling service, legal services
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Cycle to work scheme
Further information about the job
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 The Brittons Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 711 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Brittons Academy website
- Email address
- hr@elatschools.co.uk
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