Learning Support Assistant
Kings Priory School, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE30 4RF7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
12 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,989.00 - £27,254.00 Annually (FTE) £13.47 - £14.13 per hour. 28 hours per week until 31 August 2026
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Working with teaching colleagues you will support the learning, teaching and welfare of pupils within the school to enable their progress towards class and individual targets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support for Pupils: Assist pupils with specific learning needs both in and out of the classroom, ensuring they can access the curriculum and engage in learning activities.
- Individual and Small Group Support: Provide one-on-one or small group support for students who may need additional help, including those with special educational needs (SEN).
- Personalised Learning Plans: Help to implement and monitor personalised learning plans for pupils, under the guidance of the SENCO (Special Educational Needs Coordinator).
- Classroom Support: Support the class teacher in managing the classroom and promoting a positive learning environment.
- Recording Progress: Assist in tracking pupils' progress, providing feedback, and contributing to reviews and reports on pupils' development.
- Collaboration: Work alongside teaching staff, SENCO, and other learning support professionals to create an inclusive environment that meets the diverse needs of our students.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking for a rewarding career. Your specific duties will depend on the needs of the pupil or phase to which you are deployed and in this case that will most likely be with a named pupil within our secondary phase.
About you:
You’ll have some experience of working with children or young people, ideally in a learning support or educational setting and a passion for supporting them in inclusive learning environment. You’ll have strong communication skills and the ability to work with pupils, staff and parents. You’ll have patience and empathy and a positive attitude towards student and self-development.
This is a term-time working role with excellent benefits including salary progression and enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Kings Priory School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1565 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kings Priory School website
Kings Priory School is an all-through school providing high quality education to pupils aged 4 to 19. The result of a merger between a thriving independent school and an outstanding community primary school, we are an inclusive, non-fee paying School with excellent teachers, a family environment, motivated pupils and a commitment to educating the whole child, both in and outside of the classroom.
Kings Priory School is the top performing school in North Tyneside at Key Stage 4; pupils achieve exceptional outcomes which are well above national averages. In 2018 98% of pupils achieved a 4+ in English and 93% of pupils achieved a 4+ in mathematics. We are also very proud of the outcomes students achieve in the Sixth Form, where, in 2018, the average grade was a B- and many students went to read their chosen subjects at Russell Group universities.
The School operates across two neighbouring sites in the centre of the attractive coastal village of Tynemouth with short commuting links into Newcastle upon Tyne. Kings Priory School is part of Woodard Academies Trust multi-academy sponsor whose aim is to be a provider of world class education, transforming lives within and across communities. Our Christian Ethos helps to make our school a thoughtful community and we are welcoming, positive and open to pupils and staff of all faiths and none.
Kings Priory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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