Learning Support Assistant
The Windmills Junior School, Hassocks, West Sussex, BN6 8LS18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
12 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): 5 days a week - working 8.45 am to 3:15pm, term time only
Contract type
- Fixed term - To the end of the academic year (there may be the opportunity to extend pending expected funding)
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,796
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Windmills Junior School is seeking to appoint a Learning Support Assistant. This will involve working as a LSA in the classroom, supporting the learning for those that need extra support and taking out small groups or individuals to do focused activities planned by the teacher. This post also requires the applicant to work as a mid-day-meals supervisor through the lunch period and provide first aid and administer medicine to the children in their care. Although this position is temporary at this point there may be an opportunity to extend this if funding that is expected comes through.
We are keen to interview those with the right skill set of being able to support children to learn. We have some flexibility with the hours that we are offering. Ideally, we would welcome someone who could work 5 days a week but there is also the possibility of working just afternoons or for fewer days.
We are a ‘good’ school and are immensely proud of our happy, thriving junior school where the focus is always on supporting the children to be the absolute best that they can be. Social development is given equal importance to academic success. We are ambitious for all to develop a love of learning and be skilled and ready to join KS3 when they leave us.
Having a fantastic team around the children ensures that we reach our goals. We are looking for a positive, calm, flexible individual to join us. We see the role of Learning Support Assistants as essential to children’s learning and therefore require a passionate, skilled, and professional person to take on this key role. Good English and maths skills are essential to support our learners make progress. Recent experience in a primary school and working with children is desirable but not essential.
- have a passion for working with children
- be able to build positive relationships with children and adults alike
- have an optimistic and positive attitude and be flexible to the demands of the job
- be patient and able to stay calm and listen to and value the children
- positive about working with young people with disabilities, learning and behavioural needs and working to find strategies to support these children to succeed
- be suitably qualified for the post of Learning Support Assistant i.e. have a good literacy and numeracy skills (to GCSE level or higher)
- have good mathematical skills that could be used to support children working up to year 6 (good understanding of tables, division, problem solving and fractions)
- be able to work as part of a team, and
- have the ability to maintain confidentiality
What the school offers its staff
Access to Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
Further information about the job
In your application, please ensure you articulate why you have the right skills and experience to be a strong LSA in the section provided. Explaining why you want to be a LSA, how you have previously supported children to learn, what motivates you to want to support children and how you would be a positive addition to our team.
Please also outline the hours that you are interested in working.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Windmills Junior School is an equal opportunities employer committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share and uphold this commitment. All employees are subject to an enhanced criminal records check via DBS certification, identity checks, references and health checks.
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About The Windmills Junior School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 359 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Windmills Junior School website
- Email address
- pgreenfield@windmillsjunior.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01273842421
3 form entry Junior School in the village of Hassocks - 370 pupils
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