SEND Learning Support Assistant

Deyes High School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L31 6DE

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  6 November 2025

• Closing date

  19 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  6 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: TBC

SEND Learning Support Assistant job summary

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a committed and enthusiastic SEND Learning Support Assistant practitioner to join our team, providing key SEN support within the classroom and working closely with other teaching staff to ensure provision is effective and that learning needs are met.

Job overview

As a SEND Learning Support Assistant, you’ll provide personalised SEN provision, supporting students in accessing the curriculum at an appropriate level and adapting the learning to make it accessible for students with specific needs. This role also involves providing pastoral support, and you’ll monitor progress to feed back to the class teacher whilst working closely with relevant staff to ensure an individual can achieve to the fullest extent.

Job requirements

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent as a minimum
• GCSE English and Maths at C grade or above
• Experience of supporting students with SEN and utilising strategies to manage behaviours and meet needs, including supporting speech and language
• Awareness of Child Safeguarding and the latest SEN policies to implement effective provision, including working with outside agencies to deliver EHCP provisions
• Ability to effectively communicate on the pupil’s progress, with strong written and verbal communication skills

Why join us?

As a SEND Learning Support Assistant within Deyes High School, you’ll be able to make a key difference to a students’s educational experience as a crucial part of the wider team, and will have the opportunity to develop your skillset with key training and development opportunities available.

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 Deyes High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1355 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Deyes High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/deyes-high-school

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