Learning Support Assistant
The Douay Martyrs Catholic School, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB10 8QY31 days remaining to apply
Closing date
14 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,000.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Scale: Scale 2 (Point 3) pro rata
Learning Support Assistant job summary
At The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School, we are committed to delivering high-quality education rooted in our Catholic ethos. Our mission is to provide a supportive environment that inspires and challenges students to reach their full potential. We believe that alongside excellent teaching, dedicated Learning Support Assistants play a vital role in nurturing students’ academic, spiritual, emotional, and social development.
Through compassion, teamwork, and professionalism, our support staff help ensure that every student feels valued, safe, and supported to succeed. By working closely with teachers, students, and families, you will contribute to a positive and inclusive learning environment where individual needs are recognised and our shared values are lived out daily.
As a Learning Support Assistant within our support staff team, you will play an important role in helping students overcome barriers to learning, promoting independence and confidence, and enabling both staff and students to achieve excellence. Your care, encouragement, and commitment will make a meaningful difference to the life of the school community.
This role is for 5 days per week, term time plus training days only, working from 8.30am to 3.30pm, with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break each day.
Why work for The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School:
Fantastic support from your line managers and SLT who genuinely want to see you succeed and thrive.
Extensive CPD opportunities, including support for MA Study.
To be part of an 11-18 provision with opportunities to teach in the sixth form and be part of the DOWAT Trust and the collaboration it offers.
Bespoke CPD for new and emerging school leaders.
Great support for NQT’s including your own dedicated mentor, reduced teaching timetable and ‘Outstanding’ teacher programmes available
Our school has excellent transport links and is minutes away from the Piccadilly, Metropolitan and Central tube lines and is on the local bus route. We are located close by to the A40, M25 and M40 Motorways.
Staff are encouraged to join in Extra-Curricular activities and School visits, some overseas, are a strong feature of school life.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position may close early if a suitable candidate is found.
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.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Douay Martyrs Catholic School
- School type
- Academies, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1437 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Douay Martyrs Catholic School website
The Mission of The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School is:
“To create a Christ-centred learning community where every individual is enabled to fulfil their true potential”
To be Christ-centred, means to see Christ in everyone, including yourself, and to always promote the values that we know Christ promoted and taught about whilst he was on earth.
Throughout your time at The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School you will be fully supported in many ways to grow in your faith and understand what it means to be Christ–centred. You will also be fully supported in developing your potential. It is only right in a Christ-centred community that we should aim to use our talents and gifts and develop these talents and gifts. It is the Mission of The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School to do this. All members of the school community that is, pupils, teachers, support staff, parents, priests, can help one another develop their talents and gifts and therefore fulfil their potential. To do this, is to be truly living your life according to the values promoted by Christ.
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