Learning Support Assistant x2
Waltham Toll Bar Academy, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, DN36 4RZThis job expired on 31 October 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
31 October 2025 at 8am
Date listed
10 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,423.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary: £24301.67
Learning Support Assistant x2 job summary
Learning Support Assistant (x2)
The Gatehouse (Based at Waltham Toll Bar Academy)
37 hours, term time only (195 days)
Salary: £28423 pro rata
Actual Salary: £24301.67
We are excited to announce that we are looking to appoint an ambitious, energetic and exceptional individual as a Learning Support Assistant within the new Specialist Provision at Waltham Toll Bar Academy.
The ‘Gatehouse’ opening in January will cater for up to 12 children from across North East Lincolnshire who have identified Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and Children in our Care who have difficulties accessing mainstream education.
The Learning Support Assistants will work closely together and will play a key role, alongside the SENDCO and Lead Teacher of SEND, in collaborating with staff across the academy and colleagues in the Trust, local authority and external agencies to ensure a broad, balanced and specialist curriculum is provided for our children accessing the provision.
We are looking for an experienced learning support assistant who demonstrates a strong desire to ensure children, who have often had negative experiences of education, are able to develop their skills and confidence, using adaptive, personalised teaching strategies and 1:1 interventions.
It is crucial that the Learning Support Assistant creates a nurturing and empathic approach, prioritising child-centred relational approaches.
The successful candidate will hold ambitious expectations for all students with additional and special educational needs and disabilities and embed a culture where all can access the curriculum and learn effectively.
Lincolnshire Gateway Academy Trust are already working closely with Trauma Informed Schools UK to support the development of our vision, values and curriculum. It is essential the successful candidate champions our principles of trauma awareness and relational learning, building strong, trusting relationships with our children to create a safe learning environment.
An ability to be creative and adaptable in your approach is crucial. Experience of working with children across key stages is desirable. A commitment to ensuring The Gatehouse is fully inclusive and is part of the academy, is essential.
Experience of working with children with additional needs, including those with SEMH, is vital.
The Learning Support Assistant will have significant impact upon the lives and opportunities experienced by the young people of Waltham and across North East Lincolnshire.
The successful candidate will work alongside the Principal, Vice Principal of Inclusion, SENDCO, staff team and supportive Trust, shaping the direction of travel of the new Gatehouse Provision to re-engage students back in to education.
During the first year, the Gatehouse will offer 6 places and will increase up to 12 places to maximum capacity by the end of the first year.
Our ethos is one of an uncompromising drive to achieve the highest standards of outcomes and behaviour in a safe environment, which encourages every student to experience an exciting and creative climate for learning.
We place a strong emphasis upon pastoral care and our Learning Support Assistant will share the determination to offer the very best to our students so that they can thrive personally and academically.
This exciting role will start in December 2025 due to a ‘soft opening’ of the provision before the official opening in January 2026, though the start date can be discussed further at interview.
A full package of on-going CPD is in place to support our staff team as part of the whole school relational approach. This will include regular supervision.
Please contact the Vice Principal and Head of Inclusion, Miss Nicola Law, for further details about the role on - enquiries@tollbaracademy.co.uk.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. As part of this process, all successful applicants are required to apply for an enhanced DBS disclosure. Other checks including social media will be carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education legislation.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In line with our safer recruitment practices and statutory guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education, all applicants must be willing to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Additional pre-employment checks will also be carried out including online/social media check, satisfactory references and any other appropriate checks necessary in order to assess the suitability to work with children.
About Waltham Toll Bar Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1730 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Waltham Toll Bar Academy website
Waltham Tollbar Academy, Grimsby, is one of the largest secondary schools in the country, with a firm commitment to providing the best care and welfare of every member of our community.
Our academy is a fantastic place to study and work; we are a forward thinking, outward facing, dynamic, Ofsted ‘OUTSTANDING’ school. We are incredibly proud of all that we have achieved and of our longstanding reputation for excellence.
This is underpinned by a culture that is dynamic, creative and supports innovation at every level. We push for the very best to support the development of our staff and students. That is why our Academy is a vibrant learning community giving you the potential to accelerate both your teaching and leadership career.
This is an exciting time for Waltham Toll Bar Academy with a new Chief Executive of the Trust and a new Headteacher of the school. The new Head is completely dedicated and committed to building even further on the great strengths the school has to ensure it plays a transformative role in the local community and beyond.
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