Learning Support Assistant

Saracens High School, London, NW9 4AS

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  9 February 2026 at 5pm

• Date listed

  24 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,282.00 - £29,830.00 Annually (Actual) £25,282.03 to £29,830.85. (Actual salary for term time only, 39 weeks, 37.5 hours per week, paid year round). Pay rise expected from September 2025.

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Under the leadership of our new SENDCO, we are looking to grow our team of Learning Support Assistants within the Grow and Thrive team. The successful candidates will be passionate about working with young people, and preferably have a knowledge of the local area or similar area. We offer exceptional training and development opportunities. We will offer extensive support and guidance to help you achieve your aspirations while you help the children achieve theirs. You may work across the school, or specialise within an identified subject area where you will be supporting and learning from others. The ability to specialise in literacy would be welcome, but not necessary. Perhaps you want to become a teacher, an educational psychologist, an expert in speech and language or EAL, or another education-based career and are looking for that special school to gain some experience in an education setting. We have a track record of developing people in the direction they want to go, whether it is remaining within our Grow and Thrive team, growing within the Saracens family, or moving elsewhere. Saracens High School has a family ethos and is committed to supporting staff in this rewarding job, while recognising the stress it puts upon us. With generous loadings, the opportunity for colleagues to take family days, and access to a staff counsellor, we do all we can to look after our staff. With strong ties to the wider Saracens organisation, we base all we do on the values Discipline, Hard Work, Honesty, and Humility and we focus on character development and making memories, as much as outstanding academic attainment. Last year, KS4 progress was in the top 20% nationally, and KS4 attainment in the top 9%, with Fischer Family Trusts contextual scores putting us in the top 7% for progress and top 4% for 9-4 in English and Maths. This summer our first cohort of Year 13 students achieved exceptional KS5 attainment this summer, with 90% going on to university or to begin a degree apprenticeship, with 15% going to a Russell Group University. Saracens High School is a secondary school that opened in September 2018 for Year 7 pupils, growing each year until the school was full in 2024 (1200 pupils). We serve a wonderfully diverse community in the Colindale area of North London, which also has exceptional transport links with the Northern Line (Colindale) and mainline trains (Mill Hill Broadway), and easy access to main commute routes (M1, A1, A41). This post is for 37.5 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks). If you have any questions or would like a general conversation with the Principal about the role, please email principal@saracenshigh.org The closing date is 17:00 on Friday 13 February 2026. Saracens Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

The Trustees and Governors recognise their responsibility under section 175 of the Education Act 2002 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. We are committed to working with other organisations and agencies to ensure good arrangements within the school to identify assess and support those children who are suffering harm or at risk of harm.
The principles on which our policies are based apply to all trustees, governors, staff and volunteers working in or with the school.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Saracens High School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1132 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Saracens High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/saracens-high-school

Saracens High School is a new secondary school which opened in September 2018. This year we have our first cohort of Year 11s sitting exams in the summer and we open our Sixth Form in September 2023.

The school is located in the Colindale area of North London with easy access to the Northern Line (Colindale) and mainline rail (Mill Hill Broadway) as well as the M1 and A1.
We will moved into our brand new state of the art building in the autumn of 2021.

Learn more about the school at our website www.saracenshigh.org or here https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/saracens-high-school-1168079

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