Learning Support Assistant
Ab Kettleby Primary School, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE14 3JJ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
August 2025
Closing date
19 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
3 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,349.43 - £18,640.37 Annually (Actual) FTE £24,408 - £24,795
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Learning Support Assistant
Ab Kettleby Primary School
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference to children?
Does a future career excite you within our Trust?
Ab Kettleby Primary School is offering a fantastic opportunity to join our friendly, dedicated and supportive team, in our small, but mighty school.
We are looking for someone to be a crucial advocate for all children to enable them to become confident and resilient individuals.
This position is a full-time and fixed-term for one academic year.
The post holder will work a minimum of 32.5 hours per week (5 days), Monday – Friday, (8.30am – 3:30pm) term time only plus 5 INSET days (39 weeks).
As an organization, we are always looking to develop our staff to grow their career with us through mentoring and professional development opportunities. Our staff are driven by one main vision, to do our best for every single pupil so that they can develop to their full potential, to act courageously and with integrity in all that they do.
This role may be suitable for someone looking to make a difference to young people; gain relevant and practical experience within the classroom with a view to undertake teacher training or to gain specialist training and knowledge in a field that you are passionate about.
About Ab Kettleby Primary School
We offer a school with a genuine family feel across children, staff, parents and the wider community.
We offer you the opportunity to work collaboratively across two schools, Ab Kettleby and Somerby Primary, to help improve teaching and learning, support planning, enhance subject leadership, moderation and to share best practice.
You have the opportunity to work in a school that values the whole child, enhancing learning experiences of pupils in a small village community to help prepare them to be global citizens of the future.
We offer valuable Continued Professional Development opportunities across the Trust where professional relationships are forged and maintained.
We offer a commitment to Mental Health, where wellbeing of children and staff are at the heart of everything we do.
About the Mowbray Education Trust
The Mowbray Education Trust (MET) is a multi-academy trust currently educating around 2,500 children from the age of 2 to 16 in the town of Melton Mowbray and surrounding villages in the Borough of Melton. The MET currently has two secondary school, 6 primary schools and one pre-school; with potential numerical and geographical growth in the future.
Melton Mowbray is a rural market town in Leicestershire which is easily commutable from Grantham, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Oakham.
The MET has a central support services team, with staff managing Estates, Finance, HR, IT and Operations, across our schools. The central team are based at offices within John Ferneley College in Melton Mowbray.
Our Trust Employee Benefits
High quality continuous professional development throughout the year
Career progression opportunities within the Trust
Occupational sick pay, maternity and paternity pay
Access to the generous Teacher Pension Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free eye care tests
On-site parking (JFC/BR/SRD/GRV)
Employee wellbeing schemes
Accessible central services including HR, finance and IT
Salary: £18,349.43 - £18,640.37 (FTE £24,408 - £24,795)
Application deadline – Midday, Thursday 19th June 2025
Interviews – Wednesday 25th June 2025
Start date – August 2025
(We may interview suitable candidates before this date, so early enquiries/applications are encouraged)
Mowbray Education Trust reserves the right to close adverts early if sufficient applications are received.
Mowbray Education Trust embraces and welcomes diversity and equality.
Mowbray Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working within the Trust to share this commitment.
All roles are subject to full pre-employment safeguarding checks, including an Enhanced DBS with Barred List check.
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 Ab Kettleby Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 63 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ab Kettleby Primary School website
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