Learning Support Worker (Various Sites)

Meadowbrook College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 0PG

56 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  1 September 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  6 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,824.00 - £29,065.00 Annually (FTE)

Learning Support Worker (Various Sites) job summary

As a Learning Support Worker, your presence directly shapes the classroom experience for students with additional needs. You will not simply be supervising tasks; you will be the professional partner who creates a calm, purposeful environment where students feel secure enough to achieve. Working across a variety of subjects, your high expectations will help students build the independence and confidence they need to fully belong in our school community. In this role, you will be required to work at our two sites in Oxford, Banbury and Abingdon.

What skills /experience are required

To excel as a Learning Support Worker at Meadowbrook College—an alternative provision academy supporting vulnerable, disaffected, or excluded students—candidates must possess a distinct blend of resilience, empathy, and specialized educational skills. Professionally, the college requires a solid foundation of experience working with children or young people within youth work or school settings, specifically with learners exhibiting social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) difficulties, autism (ASD), or highly challenging behaviors. Candidates should hold or be actively working toward a recognized qualification in teaching, youth work, or an NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent), alongside a mandatory GCSE Grade 4 (or Grade C) or above in English and Mathematics. Crucially, the role demands advanced interpersonal skills in coaching, mentoring, and mediation to effectively implement Meadowbrook's restorative principles and re-engage students through 1:1 interventions and small-group support. Beyond classroom assistance, successful applicants must demonstrate a firm commitment to strict safeguarding and child protection regulations, have basic ICT literacy, and possess a valid driving license with business insurance to safely transport students when required.

What we can offer / about our school

At Meadowbrook College, an Alternative Provision Academy within the River Learning Trust, we provide a high-quality, safe, and welcoming environment for students aged 5-16 who need another chance to succeed outside of mainstream education. Across our Oxfordshire sites, our mission is to re-engage vulnerable and challenging learners, helping them build self-esteem, overcome barriers, and successfully transition to their next destination.

As a Learning Support Worker at Meadowbrook College, you will be part of a deeply passionate, dedicated, and collaborative team that works in small, well-supported groups to achieve these goals.

In return for your commitment to our young people, we offer:

• A Restorative and Supportive Culture: We are unashamedly committed to restorative principles and practices, creating a community where both staff and students feel valued, respected, and heard.

• Extensive Professional Development: Access to continuous professional learning and tailored training opportunities (such as SEMH, trauma-informed practices, and therapeutic mentoring) to confidently expand your skill set.

• Comprehensive Benefits & Wellbeing: Inclusion in robust staff wellbeing networks and access to a highly competitive Defined Benefit Pension Scheme (LGPS).

• A Truly Rewarding Role: The unique opportunity to make a tangible, life-changing difference for children who have often forgotten what it feels like to experience success in the classroom.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Jacqui West, the Headteacher, about the role, prior to application, then please email lhook@meadowbrookcollege.org.uk or telephone 01865 253198.

The River Learning Trust and Meadowbrook College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

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

Meadowbrook College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff and volunteers are also expected to promote fundamental British values. This post involves the type of work with children and young people that require applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All cases are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed. On-line searches are carried out on those shortlisted

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 Meadowbrook College

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• Size: 9 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Meadowbrook College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/meadowbrook-college-oxford

Located across four sites in Oxfordshire: Oxford, Banbury, Kidlington and Abingdon, we are an Alternative Provision (AP) Academy that provides full and part-time education and support to over 150 aged 5-16 students who are excluded from, or are finding it difficult to fully access, their mainstream schools.

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