Learning Support Assistant
Market Harborough Church of England Academy, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9QH2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
21 August 2025
Closing date
3 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,340.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 5 (Pay point 7-8)
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Fixed Term for academic year 25/26
32.5 hours per week
Monday-Friday 8:30am-3:30pm
We are looking for an Learning Support Assistant to join our dedicated school team for 32.5 hours a week, term time only. The successful candidate will play a key role in providing general classroom and specific support to our SEN pupils. This role is initially offered on a fixed term basis.
We are looking for someone who:
- has experience of working with children
- has a good level of literacy and numeracy
- is patient, engaging, caring and creative
- is able to work in a team
In return for your skills and experience, we provide a supportive and friendly environment to enable you to develop and progress. We offer all staff access to an excellent pension (LGPS), staff development opportunities, free onsite parking, a bike to work scheme and a wonderful staff wellbeing package.
Learn Academies Trust is committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and creating a truly inclusive Trust. We are determined to ensure all our stakeholders flourish and thrive. We aim to foster a culture where all are valued and respected. We acknowledge and celebrate all protected characteristics. We endeavour to remove all barriers to learning and participation. Our ED&I Policy and objectives are integral to all that we do.
Our vision for ED&I is simple, we aim to create an environment where everyone has a seat at the table, where everyone has a voice and where everyone belongs. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references (these will be requested if you are shortlisted) and successful completion of vetting.
Learn Academies Trust is a Disability Confident employer and is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Learn-AT will ensure that all recruitment is subject to safer recruitment procedures to allow for a robust, transparent and equal process of making sure all people employed in the trust are suitable to work with children.
The Trust creates a culture of safe recruitment and adopts recruitment procedures that help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children. It will make decisions about the suitability of prospective employees/volunteers based on checks and evidence obtained throughout the recruitment and selection process.
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 Market Harborough Church of England Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 388 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Market Harborough Church of England Academy website
We are a large, thriving primary school, set in extensive grounds just a stone’s throw from the heart of this historic market town.
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