Learning Support Assistant (Learner Specific)
The JCB Academy, Rocester, Staffordshire, ST14 5JX19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
August 2025
Closing date
9 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Term time only, 8:20-15:55 Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed term until the end of the 2027/28 academic year.
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,188 - £27,694 per annum
Actual salary
- £20,642-£21,829 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Join The JCB Academy as a Learning Support Assistant (Learner Specific) and help change lives by developing the engineers and business leaders of the future.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed individual to join us in August 2025. You will provide support for a specific learner with special educational/physical needs so that they are fully included within the academy community and are able to access the curriculum and make progress. You will also provide personal care for the learner when required and work with other professionals in supporting the specific learner.
This is a term time only role and your working pattern will be Monday to Friday 8:20am-3:55pm.
What the school offers its staff
The JCB Academy specialises in engineering and business, teaching learners from Y9 to SixthForm and providing Intermediate (L2) and Advanced (L3) apprenticeship programmes as well as an EngineeringT‑Level. Ourapproach pairs classroom learning with practical application, and we have an impressive range of world-class industry partners who help with that. JCB, of course, but also including Bosch Rexroth, HarperAdams University, Rolls-Royce and ToyotaMotor Manufacturing. Names that can turn heads with learners and lock in their learning engagement.
We offer a benefits package which includes an Employee Assistance Programme (financial guidance, legal enquiries, counselling, support for issues at home and at work); access to Blue Light Card, the UK’s leading discount provider for teachers, emergency services, NHS, social care sector and armed forces; salary sacrifice cycle scheme; interest free financing through BHN Extrasto buy the latest technology through salary deductions, discounted shopping and discounted gift cards and eGifts; access to JCB’s dental scheme (monthly fee); access to the academy’s gym; long service awards (time off and financial rewards) starting at five years; paid time off for birthdays; paid time off for partner’s/child’s significant birthdays. Plus, wherever possible we aim to give our teaching staff the opportunity to work from home during PPA time.
Commitment to safeguarding
The JCB Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
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About The JCB Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 13 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 819 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The JCB Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@jcbacademy.com
- Phone number
- 01889 506100
Everyone involved in The JCB Academy works together to provide a truly world class educational institution serving the needs and aspirations of young people across the West Midlands.
Our mission is changing lives by developing the engineers and business leaders of the future. To do this we will work tirelessly to ensure that those entrusted into our care have every chance to achieve success. It is important that learners achieve well academically to ensure that they can compete in the marketplace for higher education places and employment. It is also important that we work to develop those core skills essential for success, not just in the world of work but also in life. The JCB Academy looks to ensure that all learning enables young people to develop: can do/positive attitudes; the desire to achieve through actions; creative and enterprising behaviours; a willingness to learn in the pursuit of technical and academic excellence; and team work and leadership capability.
We have high expectations of each and every learner who will join us. Great store is placed upon self-discipline, good behaviour, uniform, teamwork and cooperation. These traditional values are at the heart of all we undertake at The JCB Academy.
The JCB Academy is a demanding and stimulating place to work. One where you will be supported to achieve your very best in a fantastic working environment.
We offer a benefits package which includes an Employee Assistance Programme (including financial guidance, legal enquiries, support for issues at home and at work), access to JCB’s dental scheme (monthly fee), free access to the academy’s gym, free on-site parking and Cyclescheme.
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