SEN Learning Support Assistant

The Priory Learning Trust, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 6BP

21 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  19 May 2026

• Closing date

  17 April 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: TPLTSS2 £17,196 - £17,446 (actual salary)

SEN Learning Support Assistant job summary

Contract type: Fixed term until 31st August 2026

FTE/Hours: 30 Hours per week

Working weeks: Term Time Only (44.6)

Salary: TPLTSS2 £17,196 - £17,446 (actual salary)

Location: St Andrews Church Junior School

Closing date: 17th April 2026

Interview dates: 22nd April 2026

Proposed start date: 19th May 2026

St Andrew’s Church Junior School is a popular school, operating at the heart of the local community. It is a vibrant, welcoming and friendly school with happy and confident children who enjoy learning and achieving. Staff at St Andrew’s are dedicated, talented, inspirational, caring and consistently want the best for the children.

We offer:

A friendly, welcoming staff team and a supportive working environment.

Comprehensive opportunities for additional training and CPD, including specific medical and SEN support training.

The chance to make a real difference in a school with a roll of 290 happy learners.

About us

By joining St Andrews Church Junior School, you become part of the current TPLT family of schools—a thriving partnership currently comprising of three secondary and eleven primary schools across Somerset and North Somerset. We are proud of our proven track record of school improvement and a consistent trend of rising outcomes for our students.

This is a pivotal moment to join us. Following two years of successful collaboration, we are preparing to merge with Castle School Education Trust (CSET) in South Gloucestershire to form the Pathway Trust later this year.

This merger is not just a change in name; it is a union of two trusts. By bringing together our complementary strengths and shared values, we are creating an extended network of twenty schools dedicated to:

Investing in Excellence: Leveraging our collective resources to further invest in leadership and high-quality teaching.

A Professional Network: Providing our staff with access to an expanded pool of expertise, collaborative research, and cross-trust career development opportunities.

Shared Resilience: Strengthening our operations to ensure that every school in the Pathway family is supported to provide a great education for every child.

We can offer you:

• A professional culture that is open, honest, fun and focused on doing what is right for children.
• Strong collaboration across the trust family of schools and access to a centralised team of specialists across all areas of school operations.
• A commitment to high‑quality CPD, with dedicated time and budget for your development.
• A values‑driven ethos where diversity, equity and inclusion are lived every day.
• Recognition of continuous service (modification order) to protect employment rights and entitlements.
• A Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions and death‑in‑service cover.
• Occupational sick pay to support you during illness or unexpected emergencies.
• Family‑friendly leave packages to help maintain a healthy work–life balance.

To find out more, please refer to our candidate job description attached.

For further information: Please visit our website.

You may also contact Wayne Higgins, Headteacher, for further information

In order to apply for this role please complete an application form via the link above. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the process.

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

Join us in Providing a Great Education for Every Child

The trust is committed to equal opportunities and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and communities, as we recognise the importance and benefit this has for our pupils.

The Priory Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Successful candidates will be required to provide a disclosure of any unspent convictions and cautions, as well as any spent convictions or cautions that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered) under the Amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 and 2020).

All appointments are subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process. This includes an Enhanced DBS check (including a Children’s Barred List check), satisfactory references, medical fitness, Right to Work in the UK, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching/management check. In line with KCSIE guidance, we will also conduct online searches on all shortlisted candidates.

Our full Recruitment and Selection policy is available on our website.

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

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.

About The Priory Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Priory Learning Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-priory-learning-trust

TPLT is, in law, an educational charity as are all Multi-Academy Trusts; we support primary and secondary schools in the South West of England. At our core is a passion to put 'Students First' and deliver exceptional education for every single child and for every single family we work with.

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