Learning Support Assistant

Southwater Junior Academy, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 9JH

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  14 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 19.5 hours per week - hours to be agreed.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 25185
• Pay scale: 4

What skills and experience we're looking for

Support for Pupils

• Build trusting relationships with children, using a nurturing and therapeutic approach to promote emotional wellbeing and engagement.
• Supervise and provide particular support for 1-1 pupils, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities.
• Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes.
• Celebrate and promote the inclusion of every child, encouraging a sense of belonging within the classroom and wider school community.
• Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
• Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.
• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher.
• Use initiative to ensure pupils are on task, challenged and are making good progress.
• Provide emotional support for particularly vulnerable pupils.
• Be adaptable and open to supporting a range of children across Key Stage 2, responding to their individual needs with care and creativity
• Provide emotional support for particularly vulnerable pupils.
• Be flexible in supporting a range of 1-1 children across the KS2 age phase.

Support for the year team

• Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment, in accordance with lesson plans and assist with the displays of pupils work.
• Use strategies, in liaison with class teachers, to support pupils to achieve learning goals.
• Assist with the planning of learning activities.
• Monitor pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record the achievement/progress as directed.
• Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on pupils achievement, progress, etc.
• Promote good pupil behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour.
• Establish constructive relationships with parents.
• Provide clerical/admin support eg photocopying if appropriate.

Support for the Curriculum

• Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses.
• Undertake programmes linked to local and national learning strategies.
• Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use.
• Prepare, maintain and use equipment/resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activity and assist pupils in their use.

Support for the Academy

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
• Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the academy.
• Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.
• Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.
• Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.
• Assist with the supervision of pupils out of lesson times, including before and after school and at lunchtime if required.
• Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips, residential visits and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher.

What the school offers its staff

• The opportunity to enhance the education of our children
• Strong, collegiate leadership and a caring, supportive and enthusiastic staff team
• High quality professional development
• A well-resourced school with excellent ICT, sporting, music and FL provision

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

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About Southwater Junior Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 445 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southwater Junior Academy website
• Email address: ncox@southwaterja.co.uk
• Phone number: 01403730475
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southwater-junior-academy

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