Learning Support Assistant
Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 8PX13 days remaining to apply
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,330.00 - £25,330.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £22,115.04
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Learning Support Assistant
Full-time Term Time Only Fixed-Term until 31st August 2026 £22,115.04 p/a (actual starting salary) Immediate start
Are you passionate about supporting young people to achieve their full potential? Do you have experience working with students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
We are seeking dedicated and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) to join our OFSTED Outstanding Additional Learning Support Department. As an LSA, you will provide one-to-one and small group support to students in lessons. The students you support will have EHCPs with a range of SEND, including Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties, Visual Impairment (VI) and Hearing Impairment (HI). You will work to foster independence, confidence, and academic progress for our students and facilitate social interaction through running a range of clubs.
The ideal person will have experience as a Teaching Assistant in a primary or secondary school setting, or a strong interest in pursuing a career in education. They will have a good understanding of SEND and inclusive education practices, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a patient, empathetic, and proactive approach to supporting young people.
Long Road Sixth Form College is situated close to the centre of Cambridge and on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Long Road is rated OFSTED good with outstanding High Needs. We have over 2,600 16–19-year-old full-time students. Our core objective is to inspire, motivate and support our students in becoming the best that they can be.
This is a term-time only role, working 37 hours per week and is fixed-term until 31st August 2026.
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 are not accepted.
About Long Road Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth_form_or_college
- School size
- Up to 2600 pupils
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Long Road Sixth Form College website
School location
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