Learning Support Assistant

Establishment: All Saints Multi Academy Trust Location: The Academy of St Nicholas Salary: 22386.00 – 23848.13 Department: Learning Support Job Type: Full Time

Closing Date: 17/10/2025 07:13 Interview Date: W/C 24th October Start Date: November 2025

Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: TTO – Term time only Hours per Week: 35.00 Weeks per Year: 39.000 Pay Grade: NEW – ASMAT Support Scale | SCP5 – SCP9

Job Overview

The Role

Core Responsibilities and Tasks

• Provide learning activities for classes/individuals under the professional direction and supervision of a qualified teacher in order to progress students’ learning.
• Assess, and report on development, progress and attainment as agreed with the teacher.
• Monitor and record student responses and learning achievements, drawing any problems which cannot be resolved easily to the attention of the teacher.
• Participate in planning and evaluation of learning activities with the teacher, writing reports and records as required.
• Support learning by selecting appropriate resources/methods to facilitate agreed learning activities.
• Provide particular and skilled support to all students in a particular learning area from within the overall national curriculum.
• Be involved in planning, organising and implementing SEN Support Plans, including attendance at, and contribution to, reviews.
• Consult with children and their families and carers and other adults as directed.

Academy Ethos

• Implement the Academy Improvement Plan to meet the objectives set out in the Funding Agreement.
• Help to meet strategic targets for the Academy set by the Governing Body.
• Support and facilitate access to the curriculum for all learners to meet the objectives in the Academy Improvement Plan and targets set by the Secretary of State and Governing Body
• Enable the Academy to be rooted at the heart of the community.
• Develop links as appropriate with partners, schools, FE and HE establishments, sponsors and the Connexions service, thereby ensuring greater opportunities for the young people in the Academy particularly in the areas of work experience and study support.

Communication and Liaison

• Communicate effectively with the parents of students as appropriate.
• Where appropriate, communicate and co-operate with persons or bodies outside the Academy.
• Follow agreed policies for communications in the Academy.

Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs including Maths and English (grade 4-9) or equivalent

Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo safeguarding checks appropriate to the post in accordance with current Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

All posts in the Trust are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Trust is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are \’spent\’ unless they are \’protected\’ under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.