Learning Support Assistant - Animal Care and Land Management
Luminate Education Group, Leeds City College, Temple Newsam Home Farm, Temple Newsam Road, Leeds, LS15 0BG16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Animal care
Working pattern
- Part time: 28 hours per week: Monday to Friday (actually working days to be confirmed with successful candidate) Reduced year: 36 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £25,948 per annum pro rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
Leeds City College are recruiting for a Learning Support Assistant to join our team in the Animal Care and Land Management department. The post holder will work closely with all staff in a wide-ranging role designed to help our learners’ progress during practical and theory lessons.
This role is part time 28 hours per week and reduced year 36 weeks per year. The pro rata salary is £16,539.
This role will be predominantly be based at Temple Newsam but on occasion their might be the requirement to also work at other campuses such as Printworks or the University Centre. This role includes supporting both practical and theory lessons with the department based in a working farm and historical estate, so the successful candidate should like animals and be comfortable in a land-based real work environment.
The School of Animal Care and Land Management offers a wide range of study programmes, apprenticeships and Higher Education (HE). From September we will be delivering courses from entry to level 6. This role will be working with Further Education (FE) students.
What You Will Do
- Support teachers in the delivery or practical and theory lessons
- Put in place interventions for whole groups or individual learners to help and support learners both academically and developmentally.
- Form meaningful and impactful relationships
- Work positively and effectively as a member of a team and on own initiative.
About You
- Experience and knowledge of supporting young people both academically and developmentally.
- Experience of positively managing learner progress in an education setting.
- Ability to work positively and effectively as a member of a team and on own initiative.
What the college offers its staff
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives:
Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting:
Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for a job with us if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on college website (opens in new tab)About Luminate Education Group
- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 14 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 14 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- careers@luminate.ac.uk
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people's lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We are a group of seven organisations, based in the Leeds City Region: Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College and University Centre Leeds.
Together, we are inspiring a whole generation of people and new leaders who will go on to make their own impact on the region and beyond.
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