Learning Support Assistant (for SEN pupils)
Jesmond Park Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE7 7DPThis job expired on 10 July 2025
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
1 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,462 - £20,785pa
Learning Support Assistant (for SEN pupils) job summary
ABOUT THE ACADEMY
Jesmond Park Academy is a thriving and fully subscribed comprehensive school servicing around 2,100 students from Year 7 to Sixth Form. Our academy has a real sense of community, occupying an iconic site and building equipped with exceptional resources. Our staff have a real passion for education in its broadest sense and we are committed to achieving the best for all of the students in our care, enabling them to make excellent progress and achieve their goals and dreams. Part of Gosforth Group, our academy has undergone a rapid period of change and improvement and continues striving to become one of Newcastle’s leading academies. We offer a positive working experience with an enthusiastic staff team focused on delivering our goals. If you genuinely desire to do the best for our students, want to be part of an already successful team and support us on our journey to becoming an outstanding academy - we want to hear from you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
At Jesmond Park Academy, the Student Support Base is used by at least 30 students across the week on a full time or part time basis. The range of needs supported with the Student Support Base is varied from medical, emotional, SEN and EAL. The role will be varied and interesting, working with a wide range of stakeholders to provide high quality support focused on maximising the outcomes for all students who need support.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking to appoint from September 2024 a suitably qualified Support Assistant. We are looking for an interest in or experience in working with students with a range of needs. This is an opportunity to join a successful Student Support Team. We are looking for applicants with enthusiasm and flexibility.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
- A competitive salary
- Generous annual leave
- Benefits including; excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, free on-site parking
- An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals
- Enthusiastic and motivated students
- An exciting and extensive commitment to professional development
- A school with its community at heart
- An exciting programme of staff well-being activities
- Wider career development opportunities to be involved across the Gosforth Group
If you would like to discuss this vacancy further, or you are unable to complete the online application form and require this in another format please contact us by email: recruitment@gosforthgroup.org.uk or telephone: 0191 281 8486.
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received, and so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
Following the shortlisting process, where applicable, candidates who attend interview will be reimbursed reasonable expenses for travel and accommodation.
The Trust is committed to equality, inclusion and diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
CREATE YOUR FUTURE
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Gosforth Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. References will normally be requested prior to interview for those candidates shortlisted. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, along with other relevant pre-employment checks, including an online check.
About Jesmond Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2083 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Jesmond Park Academy website
About the Trust
Gosforth Group are a dynamic and diverse Multi Academy Trust – this means we have a clear energy and purpose and all students are valued equally, regardless of their background or ability. We are a growing multi-academy trust currently comprising of 6 academies, two of which opened in September 2021. The Trust currently has approx. 6000 students and 650 staff. ‘Create your future’ encapsulates our purpose as a Multi Academy Trust: to educate, support and nurture all of our students so they can achieve their potential and fulfil their ambitious aspirations.
About the Academy
Jesmond Park Academy is a large, thriving and fully subscribed comprehensive school, which is rapidly making progress towards our vision of being outstanding. As a member of the Gosforth Group we are working in partnership to lay the foundations for what promises to be an exciting and rapid period of change and development in the school’s history. Our academy offers a positive working experience, with an enthusiastic staff firmly focused on us becoming a leading academy in the city. If you want to be part of realising our vision, play your part in helping us to build on our already significant progress and development, and have a genuine desire to do the best for our students, then come and join us on our journey to being outstanding.
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