Learning Support Assistant

The Bishop Wand Church of England School, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, TW16 6LT

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 11am

• Date listed

  22 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,576.00 Annually (FTE) PS3 - Please refer to Terms Summary

Learning Support Assistant job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our dedicated team. In this role, you will support our students with patience and sensitivity, contributing to our School’s mission.

As a member of our friendly Learning Support Team, you will help students actively engage in both academic and social activities. We value and respect individual differences, viewing them as opportunities rather than obstacles to achievement.

The ideal candidate will be proactive, confident working with young people, and comfortable addressing a variety of educational needs.

Please refer to the Job Profile and Terms Summary for further information.

We encourage prospective candidates to arrange a visit to our School. Please note, we reserve the right to conduct interviews as applications are received, prior to the advertised deadline.

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

The Bishop Wand C of E School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Scheme clearance is required for this position. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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 The Bishop Wand Church of England School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1200 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Bishop Wand Church of England School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-bishop-wand-church-of-england-school

With fifty-one years at the centre of the community in Sunbury on Thames and Spelthorne, we have a reputation for exceptional academic achievement, strong Christian values and providing an educational experience which creates high achieving confident articulate young people who most importantly love learning.

As a 11-19 School, we offer a seven-year education experience, with academic outcomes at GCSE and A Level, consistently exceeding the national benchmarks. We encourage all our students to complete their seven-year education journey here at Bishop Wand.

Students at Bishop Wand work hard, are well disciplined and are prepared to succeed in the competitive local and global environments in which we live. We are a traditional School in our approach to learning, we believe in high quality teaching in the classroom, supported by a wide range of extra-curricular activities that challenge and support our young people.

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