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Learning Support Assistant

Dean Trust Rose Bridge, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN1 3HD

This job expired on 7 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  7 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,352 - £18,934

Learning Support Assistant job summary

The Dean Trust is seeking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our dedicated team at Dean Trust Rose Bridge.

The core purpose of the role will be to work under the instruction and guidance of teaching and senior staff, to undertake required care and support programmes to enable access to learning for our pupils. The Learning Support Assistant will also assist the teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom as well as tracking and monitoring of pupil progress and attendance..

Key responsibilities:

Support for Pupils

• Supervise and provide particular support for pupils, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities within the main school and/or inclusion areas.
• Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes
• Establish constructive relationships with pupils and interact with them according to individual needs
• Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teachers
• Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence

 

Support for Teachers

• Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment, in accordance with lesson plans and assist with the display of pupils’ work
• Use strategies, in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to achieve learning goals
• Assist with the planning of learning activities

 

Support for the Curriculum

• Deliver structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses
• Deliver programmes linked to local and national strategies, for example, literacy, numeracy, KS3 and early years, recording achievement and progress and feeding back to the teacher
• Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use   

 

Support for the School

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
• Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
• Participate in training, other learning activities and performance management as may be reasonably directed

 

For more information about the role please contact us on 01942 510712 or email Danielle Green, HR Assistant at daniellegreen@deantrustrosebridge.co.uk.

Thank you again for your interest in working for The Dean Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.

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.

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About Dean Trust Rose Bridge

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 699 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dean Trust Rose Bridge website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dean-trust-rose-bridge

Dean Trust Rose Bridge is part of a Multi Academy Trust

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