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Required January 2026
We are looking to appoint Learning Support Assistant to work at Silver End Academy.
The working hours for this position are 24.5 hours per week, the working pattern is 8.45am - 3.00pm Monday-Thursday and 8.45am - 2.30pm on a Friday. (15-minute morning break), paid on Scale 3 point 5, £14,132 per annum.
This also includes an additional 2.5 hours per week, (½ an hour per day), lunchtime support. (Scale 2 point 3, £1,397 per annum)
Total salary, £15,529 per annum
Applicants should have experience working with children in a school environment. It is essential that you hold GCSEs (grades A-C) in both Maths and English, or hold equivalent qualifications in this area.
Successful applicants will join our friendly, caring and highly competent team of learning support staff.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following:
- Enthusiasm to work with children with a variety of different personalities and skill levels.
- Able to engage well with pupils.
- Able to work under your own initiative.
- Smartly presented and with excellent time management skills.
At Silver End Academy, we are committed to ensuring that all children grow to be independent, resourceful, adaptable and successful learners. We want children to our care to be safe, happy, active and independent learners, who are given a range of opportunities throughout the day that develop their love for learning. Our curriculum is broad, well-balanced and well planned.
Grow, shine, succeed'
At Silver EndAcademy we all share a common vision for every child and their individual needs. We provide a welcoming environment where children are accepting of others, develop positive relationships and see the school as part of an expanding, wider community, and ultimately, a bigger world.
As a school, we value the relationship we have with parents and the wider community and feel that building strong links helps us to achieve our mission together.
Visits to Silver End Academy are warmly welcomed and encouraged; please contact the school on 01376 583353 to arrange an appointment.
We offer a supportive and enjoyable working environment with a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.
Inspires MAT are committed to:
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
- Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of difference backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
- The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs
and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.
The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.