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Learning Support Assistant

Hillview School for Girls, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2HE

This job expired on 9 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  9 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual Salary £18,206

Learning Support Assistant job summary

Are you passionate about supporting learners with special needs and/or disabilities (SEND)?

We are looking for enthusiastic Learning Support Assistants to join our friendly team here at Hillview School for Girls.

WHY CHOOSE US?

Hillview School for Girls is a popular, high achieving, non-selective school based in Tonbridge, Kent. We provide focused education for girls from Year 7 to 11, to support them to become confident learners. In Years 12 and 13 we educate our learners in a mixed environment as preparation for work and further / higher education.

Hillview has a dedicated team supporting learners to think innovatively through an inspiring range of activities in lessons and as part of our extensive extra-curricular offer. We are an inclusive environment which believes that SEND learners are best supported in the classroom, with a specialist teacher so LSA’s will often support in the classroom. However, we also offer an intervention programme in small groups and one to one within the Learning Support Department as well as duty desk oversight of our learning support hub. Your role may be in the classroom or the hub depending on the dynamic and changing needs of the department

You will have the skills to:

• Deliver planned 1:1 and small group support as needed, and as specified by the Director of SEND which may include movement (e.g. sensory circuits) or support, literacy and numeracy, social understanding or emotions
• Work with designated subject area staff to provide in-class support for students with special needs and / or disabilities
• Identify when a learner is struggling emotionally and be able to support as directed
• Actively encourage students to participate in learning tasks and activities consistent with their developmental level, physical abilities and medical conditions
• Provide praise and encouragement to students to recognise and promote positive pupil behaviour in line with school policies
• Use equipment and materials in a correct, safe manner consistent with legal and school requirements
• Be able to recognise and refer any safeguarding issues by following school policy

Professional skills and attributes

• Work well as part of a collaborative team
• Excellent timekeeping, punctuality and able to work to deadlines
• Strong communication skills
• IT literacy
• Model a growth mindset through flexible thinking and commitment to continual personal development
• Give encouragement and feedback using language and vocabulary which the student is likely to understand
• Be able to build effective learning relationships with learners, whilst maintaining professional boundaries both in your language and behaviour with learners.

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.

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About Hillview School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1544 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hillview School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hillview-school-for-girls-tonbridge

Hillview School for Girls is a large non-selective, single-sex school with a co-educational Sixth Form. The school is oversubscribed and is highly popular within the local area, attracting students from all ability ranges, with an interest in creative subjects, a supportive pastoral ethos and high expectations. We are a high-attaining Single Academy Trust with attainment being amongst the top non-selectives in Kent and performing within the top 10% of all schools nationally based on Progress 8 in 2018. The school is proud of its Performing Arts Specialism and has a long-standing record of high achievement in these subjects and across the curriculum over many years. Ofsted visited in 2018 and the school achieved a Good grading, the school is well on it’s way to Outstanding. Our belief is around the pure potential and possibility of the child. Our vision is that “Students unlock their pure potential to drive their future and thrive in society”. We believe that our students can achieve highly and can be successful, we do not limit their success and support our students to believe in themselves and reach for the very highest standards. To achieve this we maintain a supportive, respectful environment where we all work together to make Hillview the very best it can be. We have focused and calm learning environments, where students come to learn and teachers can teach, with a robust behaviour management system to support where needed.
As a school we value a broad and flexible curriculum. We do not limit our students to studying the EBACC and allow a relatively free choice across GCSEs and one of the widest range of subject offers at KS5. We believe that students should be able to study the subjects where they are able to succeed and thrive and actively support skills and knowledge development within all areas of study. We offer a wide range of opportunities and believe that it is through engagement within these opportunities that the students can show most growth and development personally. This is supported through our PDL curriculum that runs throughout the school and supports the students in understanding themselves, the world around them and how to manage their lives. This includes a strong careers programme that aids learners in making choices for the future through well-planned and provisioned careers workshops.
Our expanding Sixth Form is successful and popular, with students choosing our provision for many reasons: the performing or creative subjects, for a range of academic studies or for the breadth of choice. Students’ progress to universities, specialist performing arts and creative arts college/schools, apprenticeships and employment.

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