Learning Support Assistant
Kings Priory School, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE30 4RF18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £26,847.00 - £28,153.00 Annually (FTE) £13.92 - £14.59 per hour. 22 hours per week.
Learning Support Assistant job summary
In this role, you will be the pupil's key adult, balancing highly attentive care with a strengths-based approach that empowers them to thrive independently. Your daily responsibilities will include:
Physical Support & Mobility: Assisting the pupil with safe movement around the school, playgrounds, PE lessons, stairs, and school trips using a graded support approach to foster independence.
Therapy & Positioning: Implementing daily physiotherapy routines focused on core stability, muscle strength, and balance, while ensuring correct posture and orthosis positioning.
Healthcare & Personal Care: Managing high-risk food allergies (EpiPen user) and eczema. Providing essential support with toileting, eating, and fine motor tasks.
Safe Eating & Drinking: Strictly supervising mealtimes and preparing drinks with specific thickener levels in accordance with a Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) plan to prevent aspiration.
Fatigue & Environmental Management: Monitoring fatigue levels, adapting physical activities, providing structured movement or rest breaks, and managing a familiar quiet space.
Social & Emotional Support: Acting as a go-to adult for daily check-ins, facilitating peer interactions in small groups (1:3-1:4 ratio), and helping them express frustration constructively.
The Candidate We Need
We are looking for someone who balances a warm, patient heart with the high level of alertness required to keep the pupil safe.
Key Experience:
Proven experience supporting children with SEN, physical disabilities, or complex medical needs.
Core Skills:
Practical knowledge of physical mobility support.
Strict adherence to food allergy safety and safe swallowing/thickening protocols.
The ability to implement therapy plans accurately.
Personal Attributes:
Highly vigilant, patient, and proactive.
Deeply empathetic with a commitment to promoting independence rather than over-assisting.
Qualifications (Essential & Desirable):
EpiPen / Anaphylaxis training (Highly Desirable)
Paediatric First Aid (Highly Desirable)
Manual Handling certification (Highly Desirable
This is a term-time working role with excellent benefits including salary progression and enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Kings Priory School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- All through school
- Size
- 1549 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Kings Priory School website
Kings Priory School is an all-through school providing high quality education to pupils aged 4 to 19. The result of a merger between a thriving independent school and an outstanding community primary school, we are an inclusive, non-fee paying School with excellent teachers, a family environment, motivated pupils and a commitment to educating the whole child, both in and outside of the classroom.
Kings Priory School is the top performing school in North Tyneside at Key Stage 4; pupils achieve exceptional outcomes which are well above national averages. In 2018 98% of pupils achieved a 4+ in English and 93% of pupils achieved a 4+ in mathematics. We are also very proud of the outcomes students achieve in the Sixth Form, where, in 2018, the average grade was a B- and many students went to read their chosen subjects at Russell Group universities.
The School operates across two neighbouring sites in the centre of the attractive coastal village of Tynemouth with short commuting links into Newcastle upon Tyne. Kings Priory School is part of Woodard Academies Trust multi-academy sponsor whose aim is to be a provider of world class education, transforming lives within and across communities. Our Christian Ethos helps to make our school a thoughtful community and we are welcoming, positive and open to pupils and staff of all faiths and none.
Kings Priory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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