Learning Support Assistant

Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE

17 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  14 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,633.36 - £24,172.74 Annually (Actual) Term Time plus 3 days

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Learning Support Assistant/Teaching Assistant, Term Time plus 3 days/Term Time Only, Monday - Friday 08:15 - 16:15.

Grace College have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our learning support assistant team.

This role demands a dep understanding of students on the SEND register and a commitment to staying updated on pedagogical training for various specialist needs. Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) offer an opportunity for professional dialogue with experts in diverse areas, such as Autism Spectrum, Attachment Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Vision, and Hearing Impairments.

The successful candidate will be a people person capable of supporting students with a wide range of needs and communicating competently and sensitively with parents. They will be intuitive to the needs of the students and able to find solutions to support students with complex needs. They will be firm yet understanding with students who are struggling to regulate, providing a calm and sage environment to enable all students to thrive. The role will demand excellent classroom management skills which seek to support and encourage students, whatever their ability or stage of learning. You will also need to be a strong team plater and work collaboratively with a variety of members of staff.

All LSAs work with a range of students in and out of lessons and you will be confident when planning and delivering interventions such as emotional resilience, social skills activities and catch-up assessments. The ability to reflect, analyse and, as a result, improve the impact of interventions is paramount.

While relevant experience and qualifications are valuable, we prioritise personal qualities and convictions that align with this demanding role. Your role will be pivotal in support students’ holistic learning, including targeted group work, understanding child development principles, and providing support during social times, which can be critical for some SEND students. Initially, you will serve as an expert in on SEND area to share knowledge with the wider staff team. However, ongoing professional development is expected to enable specialisation in various SEND areas over time.

There is no requirement that individual members of staff should be Christians, but it is essential however that all staff understand and enthusiastically support our mission, ethos and values.

If, prior to submitting your application, you wish to visit Grace College to find out more about the role and the College, then you would be most welcome.

Further information is available in the job description and person specification.

Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 25 days, plus bank 8 holidays per annum, pro-rated for part-time post-holders)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

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

Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.

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 Grace College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1146 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Grace College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/grace-college

As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.

We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.

Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.

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