Role: Learning Support Assistant
Location: Newton Abbot
Salary: £100 - £115 per day
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday (08:30 - 16:30)
Contract: Full time, permanent
Start: May 2025
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. We’re looking for a dedicated Learning Support Assistant to join a growing, specialist independent day school in the Devon area, supporting vulnerable students aged 5 - 16.
This is a rewarding, hands-on role that offers the chance to work in a therapeutic and nurturing educational environment. You’ll be part of a supportive and driven team committed to transforming the lives of students who require tailored, person-centred support to thrive academically, socially and emotionally.
The Role:
As a Learning Support Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting pupils with a variety of additional needs - including Autism, attachment difficulties and trauma-related behaviours. Working closely with teachers and senior staff, you will assist in the delivery of engaging learning activities to ensure that every student has the opportunity to succeed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the planning and delivery of individualised and group learning programmes
- Promote student inclusion, emotional wellbeing and academic progress
- Create a safe, structured and supportive classroom environment
- Assist with behaviour regulation, routine management and classroom organisation
- Uphold safeguarding policies to ensure the welfare of all students
- Encourage independence and social development
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience working with children and young people, ideally in an SEN or SEMH setting
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- A proactive, patient and empathetic approach
- Experience with children with additional needs (e.g ASC, SEMH, sensory processing disorders)
- Understanding of the challenges faced by students outside mainstream education
Why Join This Team?
- Be part of an innovative and forward-think educational community
- Make a real impact in a child’s life every day
- Receive a full induction and ongoing training tailored to your professional growth
- Work alongside a supportive and collaborative team
- Enjoy job stability with term-time only working
Ready to make a lasting difference in education?
If you’re enthusiastic, resilient and ready to support students who need it most, we want to hear from you!
Working with Long-term Teachers:
We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.
LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.
Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.
We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.
In addition you will receive:
- Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities
- Permanent job roles
- Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process
- Working to Agency Workers Regulations
- Interview preparation, advice and support
- Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay