Learning Support Assistant for Student with Medical Needs

The Robert Smyth Academy, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7JG

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As Soon as Possible

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,583.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 3, points 5 to 6 - 29.58 hours per week 39 weeks per year

Learning Support Assistant for Student with Medical Needs job summary

Our staff are our most valued asset. The Academy has access to a wealth of support provided by outstanding practitioners, giving opportunities for staff to flourish and develop.

The Role

This role is to support a student with physical needs on a 1:1 basis in the main school. You will be required to assist with personal care needs as well as accessing the curriculum. The role is 29.58 hours a week (8.45am - 3.15pm) term time only.

You will benefit from:

A dedicated, hardworking and supportive department, with students needs and requirements to access the curriculum at the centre of everything they do.

A department that is dedicated to raising levels of achievement within a supportive and reflective atmosphere

A department that is regularly cited as an example of excellent practice within the Academy reflected in the number of parents selecting Robert Smyth Academy as their first choice of school.

For further information on the role, please read the job description attached.

We reserve the right to close the advert should a suitable candidate be found before the closing date.

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 The Robert Smyth Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1277 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Robert Smyth Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-robert-smyth-academy

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