Learning Support Assistant

Orion Spires, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 0HD

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  10 August 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  21 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £18,699.00 Annually (Actual)

Learning Support Assistant job summary

The purpose of this role is to provide support for those students with Special Educational Needs and help raise their educational achievement. The role will be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young people

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.

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.

About Orion Spires

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 620 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Orion Spires website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/spires-academy

At Spires Academy we offer a distinctive small school environment where each individual is well known, listened to and encouraged to be the best they can be. Serving just over 600 students enables us to maintain an inclusive and nurturing community atmosphere, where staff work with students to develop the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to reach their full potential.

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