Learning Support Lead (Year 8/9)

Seahaven Academy, Newhaven, East Sussex, BN9 9TD

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  To be confirmed

• Closing date

  8 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £28,098.18 Annually (FTE) Your actual salary will be £24,245.49 prorated from the FTE of £28,098.18. You will be paid 44.87 weeks per year to include 39 working weeks and 5.87 paid holiday weeks

Learning Support Lead (Year 8/9) job summary

We are seeking a motivated, resilient and adaptable Learning Support Lead to join our supportive pastoral and inclusion team at Seahaven Academy. This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who is passionate about helping young people overcome barriers to learning, achieve their full potential and thrive both academically and personally.

Working closely with teachers, pastoral staff, parents and carers, you will play a key role in supporting students with additional needs, monitoring progress, promoting positive behaviour and encouraging independence. You will provide targeted support for individuals and small groups, helping to create an inclusive learning environment where all students feel valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

As Learning Support Lead, you will take a proactive approach to identifying and addressing barriers to learning, working collaboratively with colleagues to raise achievement and improve outcomes for students. You will also contribute to staff development by sharing best practice and supporting the school's commitment to high expectations, evidence-informed practice and continuous improvement.

Your patience, excellent communication skills and ability to build positive relationships will help students develop confidence, resilience and a love of learning. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting difference to the lives of young people within a dynamic and ambitious school community.

Why join us?

• A rewarding role supporting students to overcome barriers and achieve success
• The opportunity to work closely with teachers, pastoral teams, parents and carers
• A collaborative and supportive team with a strong commitment to inclusion and student wellbeing
• Excellent professional development and career progression opportunities
• The chance to contribute to a school culture built on high expectations, personal growth and student achievement
• A meaningful opportunity to positively impact the lives of young people every day

Seahaven Academy is part of United Learning, a growing group of schools whose aim is to provide excellent education to children and young people across the country. We are committed to ensuring our employees feel valued, supported and rewarded. As part of United Learning, we offer opportunities and a benefits package beyond that of an individual school.

We’re proud to offer ‘more pay, more time, and more support’. We offer the best pay in the sector, three extra INSET days dedicated to planning and professional development, one paid personal leave day each year during term time.

We place a high priority on developing our staff. Every employee benefits from a supportive annual review process with a tailored programme of personal development. We also facilitate a wide range of professional networks, enabling colleagues to collaborate, share best practice and learn from colleagues in similar roles.

We are committed to supporting your wellbeing. Flexible working is available where roles allow, alongside a comprehensive range of benefits including enhanced parental leave, access to a health cash plan (following 6 months’ service) employee assistance and wellbeing programmes, and free flu vaccines. Further information about our rewards and benefits can be found at - www.unitedlearning.org.uk/careers/rewards-and-benefits.

If you enjoy a varied role and take pride in making a difference, we’d love to hear from you!

A job share can be considered for this role.

If you would like to arrange an informal conversation or visit the school, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please get in touch using the details below.

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

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants for people working with children and vulnerable adults will need to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) enhanced clearance for this authority.

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.

About Seahaven Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 701 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Seahaven Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/seahaven-academy

Seahaven Academy is an 11-16 school serving the community of Newhaven and surrounding areas. Following an inspection by Ofsted in November 2021, the school has again been judged as ‘good’ in all areas. The school has a spectacular position in very modern buildings above the coast, within easy reach of Eastbourne, Brighton and Lewes. Newhaven has the benefit of good bus and train services from surrounding areas directly to and from the town.

At Seahaven Academy we have a very simple ethos: be ambitious, be determined, be the best! We have very high expectations of our students and of ourselves and are proud to be committed to fulfilling the United Learning mission of bringing out ‘the best in everyone’.

Our school is a vibrant yet calm environment in which students can fulfil their ambitions. We ensure that classes are disruption-free so that learning time is not wasted. We ensure students have every opportunity to be supported and extended when they most need it. We place a huge emphasis on literacy as the key to the wider curriculum. We enthuse, encourage, motivate, convince and cajole our students to be the best they can be. We underpin all our work with the very best student support and pastoral care. Seahaven Academy is a school with big ambitions and very high expectations. We expect our students to be leaders and drivers in our pursuit of excellence.

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