Learning Support Assistant
Southend High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 0RGThis job expired on 7 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
30 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Flexible depending on applicant
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale 4 POint7
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a number of Learning Support Assistants to join our friendly and supportive team, as our cohort of students increases.
About The Role:
- As a strong communicator you will:
- Promote the inclusion of children with Special Educational Needs within the classroom, and as individual or group work.
- Understand specific learning needs and provide differentiated support to pupils individually and within a group.
- Establish strong relationships with students and parents, maintaining open communication.
- Use internal systems to log progress and communication, and utilise resources.
About You:
- Preferably some prior experience working or volunteering with children, including those with Special Educational Needs, and a keen interest in doing so in a school context.
- Enthusiastic, patient and able to build rapport.
- Able to work within a team, developing strong working relationships with colleagues.
- Able to use basic IT (including Office packages) to plan work, communicate and keep records.
To Apply: Please download the candidate pack for the full job description, available on our website. For safeguarding reasons we are unable to accept lone CV's, so we ask that you please complete the application form downloadable via our website (or complete via Essex Schools jobs online), and submit to us.
Applications Deadline: 7th July 2025
Start date: 2nd September 2025
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview. The need to appoint quickly means we reserve the right to appoint at any time.
Contact: recruitment@shsb.org.uk or telephone 01702 606 200.
What the school offers its staff
Benefits:
- Auto-enrolment into a contributory pension scheme (LGPS for support staff, employer contribution 25%)
- Free on-site parking and cycle to work scheme
- CPD through internal and external providers (including a subscription to National College)
- Employee Support Programme offering retail discounts and vouchers, a 24/7 confidential advice line, and counselling.
- Specsavers Eye care vouchers
- Free use of the sports facilities
Key terms:
- Hours: We have a number of full time or part time opportunities available, so exact working hours would be discussed with the
- appointed candidate(s)
- Term time (39 weeks per year including non pupil days)
- Duration: Permanent
- Location: Based on site within the school
- Remuneration: The Essex Schools' Local Government Scale 4, Point 7 which is £25,584 FTE gross per annum. This is within a range of Points 7-8. For illustration purposes, a post with 31.25 hours per week would be a pro rata salary of £18,525 gross per annum which includes an element of holiday pay.
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.
About Southend High School for Boys
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1325 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Southend High School for Boys website
- Email address
- recruitment@shsb.org.uk
Southend High School for Boys (SHSB) is an ‘Outstanding’ school (Ofsted 2015), rated as outstanding against every one of the inspection criteria. It is one of four selective schools within the Borough of Southend. The main school, years 7 to 11, is single sex boys whilst the large sixth form is coeducational. It is situated thirty miles from London on the Thames Estuary and is close to main road and rail links from London, and to Chelmsford and Cambridge. SHSB has ‘an ethos of excellence in both academic achievement and a wide range of activities [that] permeates all aspects of the school’ (Ofsted 2015). At SHSB talent is nurtured, learning is valued, challenge is welcomed, participation is expected and achievement is prized. SHSB is not only a lively and stimulating institution, but also a welcoming community with an open and friendly approach.
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