Learning Support Assistant (Special Educational Needs)

Dennington Church of England Primary School, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 8AE

Deadline is today

• Job start date

  4 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 12 hours over 2 days, per week.
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year to 31.08.2026
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,413
• Hourly rate: £12.65

What skills and experience we're looking for

You will need to:

• Ideally have experience of working with children with special educational needs in a primary school setting
• Have knowledge and understanding of the different social, cultural and physical needs of pupils.
• Have an interest in how children learn and behave.
• Provide appropriate role models of behaviour both in the classroom and around school
• Really care about children, particularly those with learning barriers.

You must be able to:

• Carry out tasks and responsibilities under the direction of the SENDCo, Class Teacher, or Head of School.
• Be productive and show initiative.
• Communicate effectively and appropriately to pupils with different abilities and ethnic backgrounds.
• Motivate pupils to learn and reach their full potential.
• Motivate pupils to be sociable.
• Assist with the organisation of the learning environment.
• Maintain accurate records of the pupils.
• Work effectively with other adults in the school and wider community.
• Be a responsible and trustworthy role model.
• Have patience and be flexible and innovative with a clear understanding of how children might find learning new concepts and remembering taught concepts difficult.
• Respect and maintain confidentiality but have regard to the safeguarding protocols of information sharing where necessary.
• Attend training courses considered appropriate for the post.

What the school offers its staff

Dennington CoE Primary School is part of All Saint Schools Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust of 15 primary schools across Suffolk.

A package of employee benefits are offered including local government pension scheme, professional development, wellbeing support programme.

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.

The 1:1 Learning Support Assistant’s main role is to provide support for a pupil with special educational needs. The 1:1 Learning Support Assistant will ensure that the pupil can integrate as fully as possible in the activities generally undertaken by the other children in the class and make progress.

Duties will include running specific programmes and activities to assist the pupil’s individual learning and social needs.

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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

DEN 1 to 1 LSA Job Specification Aug25.pdf - 249 KB (opens in new tab)

About Dennington Church of England Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 72 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dennington Church of England Primary School website
• Email address: c.rushbrook@denningtonprimary.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dennington-church-of-england-primary-school

At Dennington we really value high quality teaching for children and are, therefore, keen to embrace new initiatives to encourage our children to succeed in everything they do. We are proud of our curriculum that promotes inclusion and encourages creativity, recognising that children are individuals and respond differently to different tasks. Our staff, governors, and parents work in unison to ensure that our children receive the best possible education, enabling them to develop academically, spiritually, emotionally, socially and morally.

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