Learning Support Assistant
Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, AL5 5FH14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
4 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
20 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
- £25,496.00 - £25,889.00 Annually (FTE) Salary H3 (Point 5-6) Actual salary, £11,493 - £11,670 including London Fringe
Learning Support Assistant job summary
We are seeking to appoint a committed and experienced Learning Support Assistant who will provide support for our students, teachers and the school in order to raise standards of achievement for all students (e.g. SEND, EAL, all underachieving groups) by utilising specific knowledge and skills and to encourage students to become independent learners, to provide support for their welfare, and to support the inclusion of students in all aspects of school life.
The successful candidates will have:
- Excellent numeracy and literacy skills
- Understanding of child development and how children learn
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Strong IT skills
- Flexibility, initiative and common sense
- The ability to approach all tasks with patience and good humour
- Reliability and a commitment to work hard in the best interests of our students
If you feel you have the relevant desire, experience and energy and share our vision then we look forward to receiving your application.
Closing date for applications: 9am Friday 4th July 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received so early submission of your application is recommended
We are committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare and an equal opportunities employer.
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 Katherine Warington School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 923 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Katherine Warington School website
Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a
further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding
schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).
Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk
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