16 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    20 April 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    21 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Learning support or cover supervisor

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Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday - 37 hours a week, 39 weeks a year.

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£24,404 (£18,253.95 Pro-rata salary)

Pay scale

5

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will join an experienced team of teachers, STLAs (Specialist Teacher and Learning Assistants) and LSAs (Learning Support Assistants) who support young people aged 3 to 19, working developmentally between birth and 6years of age.

We are looking for someone to join our highly skilled team, who can build excellent relationships with our children and is committed to high standards in the classroom as part of a highly motivated and hardworking team. You should have knowledge and understanding of specialist education and early childhood development. You will be required to demonstrate good verbal communication skills and an ability to annotate pupils’ work.

The successful applicants will promote the school ethos through high levels of expectation, being an adaptable team player, promoting growth mindset through recognition of character education and be able to encourage pupil independence.

What the school offers its staff

The Headteacher and Governors wish to appoint multiple LSA for 37 hours a week, to start September 2025.Brackenfield School is an area special school for the South of Derbyshire, providing an exciting and relevant education for young people with complex needs including communication and comprehension difficulties.

Commitment to safeguarding

Brackenfield School is committed to the safeguarding of all children.
Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Brackenfield SEND School is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, preventing unlawful discrimination in all of its activities and to valuing diversity.

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Additional documents

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LSA job pack March.pdf - 422 KB (opens in new tab)

About Brackenfield Special School

School type
Special school, ages 3 to 16
School size
175 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 16
Ofsted report
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School website
Brackenfield Special School website
Email address
hr@brackenfield.derbyshire.sch.uk
Phone number
01159733710
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Brackenfield is an oversubscribed South Derbyshire special school for children from 3-16 years old. Over the last 4 years we have streamlined our offer to become a specialist school for pupils with communication and comprehension difficulties and we have a growing population of children with complex physical needs. All our pupils are significantly cognitively impaired operating developmentally between 0 – 6 years of age.

Arranging a visit to Brackenfield Special School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@brackenfield.derbyshire.sch.uk.

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