Learning Support Assistant
Hounsdown School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 9FT10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
9 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,405.00 - £25,430.00 Annually (FTE)
Learning Support Assistant job summary
We are seeking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant to support students with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) individually and in small groups. We also have the opportunity included in this post to combine the role with cover supervision for absent teachers throughout the school covering students’ lessons. If in the future you want a career in teaching then this is an excellent way to gain experience in a school setting. Please indication on your application form the days and hours you would like to work.
Candidates will need good communication skills and the ability to clarify and explain instructions clearly and a firm but non-confrontational approach towards discipline is essential. Experience of working with young people is desirable, although full training will be provided. Applicants need to have a good general education and be educated to GCSE level C or equivalent in Maths and English. Graduates looking for future teaching careers will be considered.
Hounsdown is a popular, over-subscribed Hampshire school. Our school has a welcoming ethos with students being courteous and respectful.
Staff Benefits
- Private Health Cash Plan
- Free counselling support
- Fantastic CPD opportunities for all
- Cycle Loan Scheme
- Staff swimming
- Respectful email policy
- Staff fitness sessions
- Excellent pension scheme
- Free onsite parking
Hounsdown School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant pre-employment checks.
Commitment to safeguarding
Hounsdown School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, online searches along with other relevant pre-employment checks.
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 Hounsdown School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1299 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hounsdown School website
Hounsdown is an 11-16 Science College which converted to a Single Academy Trust in August 2011. We are a popular, over-subscribed, Outstanding (Ofsted 2017), Hampshire school and a strategic partner for the ETC Teaching School Alliance. Our school has a welcoming ethos with students being courteous and respectful. We are committed to supporting all staff in their career aspirations and growing new leaders. The school motto is ‘Be the best that you can be’.
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