Learning Support Assistant

Dartmouth Academy, Dartmouth, Devon, TQ6 9HW

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 November 2025

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  1 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: B3
• Additional allowances:

  B3

Learning Support Assistant job summary

FTC until 31/8/2026 for 3 days per week

We are looking for practitioners who have the passion and adaptability to ensure effective support within whole-class, small-groups and one-to-one environments.

The post would include providing effective support for pupils as directed by the class teacher as well as providing small-group and one-to-one interventions for 3 days per week. Providing support to pupils with a range of special educational needs including those with an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) is a key element of the role. Your line manage is the SENDCo and will work closely with you to support your professional development, as well as ensuring the consistency and high quality of the support you are providing.

We are an all-through school, from 3-16, and look for individuals who are enthusiastic about teaching cross-phase. Applications are also therefore welcomed from both Primary practitioners with an interest in developing into Secondary, and vice versa.

Education South West is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post. This includes checks with past employers, an online check of publicly available information, including social media, and an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Dartmouth Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 19
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 452 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dartmouth Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dartmouth-academy

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