Senior Learning Support Assistant
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ9 days remaining to apply
Closing date
24 June 2026 at 10am
Date listed
15 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,064.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary of £22,639 per annum based on 34 hours per week, term time only (Mon-Fri)
Senior Learning Support Assistant job summary
Main duties
Support for students
- Use specialist (curricular/learning) skills/training/experience to support students in a range of settings (1B, intervention hubs and mainstream classrooms)
- Work and liaise with KS3 Learning Support team to ensure that all Provision Maps are up to date.
- Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom
- Support students consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual SEND needs
- Encourage students to interact and work co-operatively with others to engage all students in activities
- Promote independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self-reliance
- Provide feedback to students in relation to progress and achievement
- To lead on initiatives in 1B, for example, Pioneers
Supporting the Line Manage
- Work with KS3 Assistant SENDCo to establish an appropriate learning environment
- Monitor and evaluate students’ responses to learning activities through observation and planned recording of achievement against pre-determined learning objectives
- Provide objective and accurate feedback and reports to the Line Manager as required, on student achievement, progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence
- Be responsible for keeping and updating records as agreed with the Line Manager, contributing to reviews of systems/records as requested
- Undertake monitoring of students’ work and accurately record achievement/progress
- Promote positive values, attitudes and good student behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour
- Liaise sensitively and effectively with parents/carers as agreed with the Line Manager within your role/responsibility and participate in feedback sessions/meetings with parents/carers
- Provide general clerical/administration support eg produce worksheets for agreed activities etc
- Attend meetings/reviews with parents/carers and internal and external agencies
Support for the curriculum
Implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to student responses/needs
Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop students’ competence and independence in its use
Help students to access learning activities through specialist support
Determine the need for, prepare and maintain general and specialist equipment and resources
- Intervention planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons/work plans as appropriate
- Liaise with KS3 Assistant SENDCo and members of faculties regarding students’ progress and supply of work
Support for the school
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
- Establish constructive relationships and communication with other agencies/professionals, in liaison with the Assistant and whole school SENDCo, to support achievement and progress of students
- Attend and participate in regular meetings
- Participate in training and other learning activities as required
- Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others
- Provide appropriate guidance and supervision and assist in the training and development of staff as appropriate
- General administration related to the remit of the Learning Support Faculty
Other duties
- - Attending training courses as necessary
- Undertaking tasks as directed by the KS3 Assistant SENDCo, SENDCo or the School Manager
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 2290 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Williams's School website
Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.
We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.
We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.
The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.
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