LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANT (FTC)

St Lawrence School, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, LN9 5EJ

10 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  23 January 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  13 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,027.00 Annually (FTE)

LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANT (FTC) job summary

INSPIRE CONNECTED COMMUNITIES TRUST

LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANT

St Lawrence School, Horncastle

Grade G3 Point 6 - £24,027 (FTE)

32.5 hours per week / 39 weeks per year

Fixed Term Contract - January 2026 - 31st August 2026

Due to staff progression, we are looking to add to our fantastic team with enthusiastic, motivated and creative practitioner, initially at St Bernard’s School, employed across the Trust on a FTC basis. As multi-disciplinary practitioner, we hold high expectations and a community wide commitment to supporting the development of our young people, with a wide range of learning difficulties, ranging from moderate to severe/profound and complex, including SEMH and ASD.

Within the role you will work as part of the team in meeting students at their point of need. Experience of working within a restorative culture and utilising strategies in supporting students with profound and complex, sensory, social and emotional needs and Autism is an advantage. The applicant should have energy for supporting positive behaviour, communication and complex needs and have a relevant NVQ level 3 or equivalent.

The purpose of this role is to work with students in enabling progress, in accordance with their EHCP where appropriate and / or groups of students, as directed by the teacher. To provide required support academically, emotionally, socially, across a range of student centered activities to promote development and learning.

This is a great opportunity to further your career within an environment based on a coaching culture and a commitment to staff personal and professional learning and development.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expect all staff share this commitment. All posts will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, medical and reference checks. Applicants may be subject to a social media presence check.

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 St Lawrence School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 180 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-lawrence-school

Welcome to St Lawrence School in Horncastle.

At St Lawrence we meet our students at their point of need creating a flexible and personalised curriculum based around 3 distinct pathways ensuring regular opportunities for social interaction opportunities with their peer group.

The school positively supports students aged 5 to 16 with a wide range of additional needs. All of our children and young people have an Education Health Care Plan in place.

We focus on positive relationships between all students and staff to support successful learning.

We use a restorative approach to empower the students as much as possible to understand, regulate with support and ultimately to self-regulate their behaviour in a positive way.

We use a variety of different interventions to support our students in all areas of need.

We have whole school communication approach with adults modelling Makaton signing, verbal communication, use of symbols, written and pictorial communication as well as alternative means such as PECS, PODD and iPad.

All students are supported to access visual timetables and schedules as needed to support them to understand expectations and to reduce anxiety.

Throughout the school we support growing independence in our young people working towards our aspirations for them as they move towards adulthood. This includes opportunities to take part in travel training, work experience and life skills.

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