Specialist Learning Support Assistant

Riverbank School, Coventry, West Midlands, CV3 2QD

42 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  8 September 2025

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  22 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: G4 (32 hrs £19,504 - £22,169) or (37 hrs)

Specialist Learning Support Assistant job summary

Riverbank Academy currently have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated Specialist Learning Support Assistant to join the team, supporting teaching staff with responsibility for the development and educational provision of learners.

Job overview

You’ll be responsible for planning and implementing agreed interventions with individuals/groups, in or out of the classroom, delivering programmes of support to smaller groups with minimal supervision, monitoring and recording pupil’s responses to learning activities through formal observations and planned recording of achievement and progress.

Job requirements

• A desire to continue to improve literacy, numeracy and ICT skills, with Grade C achieved in English and Maths
• Qualification to A level (AS/level) standard. desirable
• Experience of leading lessons within a community, mainstream or special school context
• Commitment to build upon your own learning through our structures
• Able to support students aged from 11-19 in moving and handling and personal care
• Ability to communicate effectively with students, staff and parents

Why join us?

As an Specialist Learning Support Assistant within Riverbank Academy, you’ll be able to build upon your existing skill set within a supportive environment, with professional development, training, and career progression opportunities available.

Interviews will take place upon application

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 Riverbank School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• School size: 208 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Riverbank School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/riverbank-school

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