Special Educational Needs Learning Support Assistant

John Ray Infant School, Braintree, Essex, CM7 1HL

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  4 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  22 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 Monthly Pro-rata

Special Educational Needs Learning Support Assistant job summary

Learning Support Assistant

FTE salary: £25,185.00 - £25,989.00
Actual salary: £15,076.97 - £15,558.28

Fixed term contact until 31st August 2026

Monday to Friday - 24 hours 35 minutes per week (term time only plus 2 non pupil days)
08:45 - 13:50 with a 15 minute unpaid break.

We wish to appoint a Learning Support Assistant to support children with special educational needs. The successful applicant will need to have a patient, positive and kind attitude, with excellent communication skills and a genuine love of working with children. Working as part of a team, you will need to be calm, flexible, dedicated and be able to form positive relationships with staff and children. You will be working with individual pupils and alongside other children in the class to support their learning. Part of this exciting role, is that you will be supporting the children during lunchtime.

This job role will involve supporting and meeting the intimate care needs of a pupil alongside delivering provisions set out in pupils EHCPs.

The successful candidate will receive training from the Inclusion team.

If you have any queries regarding the role please contact Clare Ryan by emailing cryan2@compassps.uk.

We reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above if sufficient applications have been received. We therefore advise that you submit your completed online application form as soon as possible.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

Children and their learning come first. We want our staff to be highly skilled and well equipped to enable then to deliver a programme of learning that challenges and excites young minds. Most of all, we want everyone in the 'Partnership' to want to be the very best they can. Every member of staff, from every area of school, is provided with an opportunity to grow and be a special part of our organisation.

Applications close midday on Monday 6th October 2025

Date of short listing: Tuesday 7th October 2025

Date of interview: Wednesday 8th October 2025

Visits to the school are welcome. Please call our school office on 01376 323107 to arrange a convenient time and date.

Information about the School

Our school is a three-form entry Infant school catering for children from 4-7 years old. We work in close partnership with our neighbouring Junior school as well as other local primary schools.

Our school is a calm and purposeful environment where each child is valued and feels part of the school community. We work hard to promote the social, moral and cultural development of children so they develop positive relationships with staff and each other to help them to build confidence, independence and resilience. Our core values of respect, trust, responsibility, courage, perseverance and hope are well known by everyone in our school community and children use these values in all aspects of school life. Our children are happy at school and the staff work hard to ensure that learning is exciting, fun and memorable. We want every child to master the core skills of English and mathematics and for them to learn through a rich and creative curriculum. In short, we want to create a learning community that has every child skipping through our gates each day!

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 John Ray Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 335 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: John Ray Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/john-ray-infant-school-braintree

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