HLTA / Experienced LSA

Protocol Education Ltd; Colchester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational support agency in Colchester is seeking a dedicated Learning Support Assistant to oversee students with special needs. This is a full-time role from 8:30am to 3:30pm, focusing on improving student engagement and interaction. Candidates are required to have relevant experience and qualifications in special education. The position offers a supportive working environment with potential for a permanent role in the future.

Benefits

FREE online safeguarding training

Potential for permanent role

Qualifications

• Experience working within schools is necessary.
• Passionate about supporting special needs students.
• Must have appropriate qualifications and training.

Responsibilities

• Support students with moderate, severe, and complex needs.
• Work closely with parents to ensure continuity in support.
• Maintain a positive and friendly approach to education.

Skills

Experience supporting special needs

Strong communication skills

Ability to build rapport with children

Education

Relevant qualifications in special education or support

Job description

HLTA / Experienced Learning Support Assistant – required immediately!

• Do you have experience working within schools?
• Are you passionate about supporting special needs?
• Do you want to make a difference?

A special needs school in Colchester is looking for a Learning Support Assistant to support students with moderate, severe and complex needs.

Role includes

• Working 5 days a week within the school provision, supporting students with MLD and SLD in small groups or on a 1:1 basis to improve engagement, interaction and raise attainment.
• Learning and developing your LSA skills.
• Working closely with parents to ensure what is carried out at school is continued at home.
• Maintaining a friendly and positive approach to teaching and learning, and building strong relationships and rapport with individual children.

This is a full‑time temp to permanent opportunity (8:30am – 3:30pm). Experience supporting children or adults with special needs is required.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

Full pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position.

In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, which may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.

We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.