At a Glance
- Tasks: Support young people with emotional needs and build trusting relationships.
- Company: Milk Education, a forward-thinking provider in Hackney.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, hands-on experience, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Work in a small, nurturing setting focused on personal growth.
- Why this job: Gain unique experience that enhances your psychology or therapy career path.
- Qualifications: Psychology or therapy graduate with a passion for helping others.
The predicted salary is between 25000 - 30000 £ per year.
Are you a psychology or therapy graduate looking for the experience that sets your application apart? If you are working towards a career in educational psychology, forensic psychology or occupational therapy — or simply want to confirm that working with children and young people is the right path for you — this role offers exactly the kind of hands‑on, meaningful experience that postgraduate programmes and employers are looking for.
Milk Education is recruiting Learning Support Assistants on behalf of a specialist alternative provision in Hackney. This is not a typical classroom assistant role. You will be working in a small, nurturing setting specifically designed for children and young people who have been unable to access mainstream education due to anxiety, emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), autism, trauma, and complex emotional needs. This is real‑world experience with a genuinely complex and rewarding cohort — the kind of experience you cannot get from a mainstream school placement.
About the setting: The provision sits at the heart of Hackney — one of London's most diverse and forward‑thinking boroughs — and works with young people who have often had difficult or damaging experiences in traditional education. The focus here is on rebuilding trust, emotional safety and a love of learning, using trauma‑informed, person‑centred approaches delivered by a skilled multidisciplinary team. Class sizes are small. Support is personalised. And the progress pupils make — however small it may seem — is genuinely significant.
What you will be doing:
- Providing 1:1 and small group support to pupils with anxiety, EBSA, autism and additional learning needs
- Building therapeutic, trusting relationships with young people
