L2 Learning Support Assistant

Oakwood High School; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Supportive school community

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Oakwood High School, part of Inspire Learning Trust in Rotherham, is seeking a Level 2 Learning Support Assistant to join our enthusiastic and supportive team. You will work with students to provide targeted learning support and help them progress in line with school aims.

The successful candidate should demonstrate empathy, a proactive approach to helping learners, and a flexible mindset regarding hours. You will be part of a welcoming school culture that values staff development.

Qualifications

• Committed and empathetic staff who understand student challenges.
• Ability to engage proactively to help students progress.
• Willingness to discuss flexible hours or reduced hours.

Responsibilities

• Support students to progress and achieve learning goals.
• Contribute to planning with imaginative ideas to enhance learning.

Skills

Empathy

Student engagement

Team collaboration

Adaptive support

Job description

Inspire Learning Trust is a Multi Academy Trust based in Rotherham which also includes Oakwood High School, Sitwell Junior School, Thomas Rotherham College and Winterhill School.

Oakwood High School is an over-subscribed 11-16 High School noted by OFSTED in our January ‘26 inspection as ‘a harmonious and happy community where staff and pupils feel a keen sense of belonging’ and where ‘Leaders have created a calm, welcoming school where children from many different backgrounds get along’.

We are looking for a well-qualified candidate who will join an enthusiastic, supportive and successful school as a L2 Learning Support Assistant.

We seek

• Committed and enthusiastic staff who bring genuine empathy, good understanding and sensitivity to the challenges and difficulties faced by students.
• Staff who values the importance of their contribution and engages with students in a proactive, positive, and purposeful way to help them make real progress in their learning.
• Successful candidates will be truly committed to supporting students to progress and achieve their learning goals and will hold high aspirations for every learner’s success.
• We will welcome applications from proactive and motivated A-level student leavers who can act as positive role models.
• We also will welcome applications from high-quality candidates who may wish to discuss reduced hours or flexible working arrangements.

Candidates will be truly committed to supporting students to progress and achieve, have high aspirations for the students’ success and will contribute to ongoing planning with imaginative and dynamic ideas. To enhance students’ learning and create independence, all students and staff are provided with an electronic device.

We Offer

• A supportive and successful school where staff work in a way that encourages a positive work environment that is solution focused and proactive for all.
• A school with a way of working that encourages a positive work environment that is solution focused and proactive for all
• We offer a positive working environment, we care about our learners, and we care about our staff, all of whom know and appreciate that. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of this, contributing to this culture and developing it further.

Inspire Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, other workers, and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we undertake to make any reasonable adjustments to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face.

Our safer recruitment processes include online media searches which will form our due diligence checks pre interview. Employees will be subject to a comprehensive vetting process including references from current and previous employers, right to work in the UK, an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.

All candidates are expected to read the Trust’s Safeguarding Policy accessible via our website:https://www.inspiretrust.uk/page-template/statutory-documents/