Learning Support Assistant

Stepneyallsaints; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Stepney All Saints is seeking an exceptional teaching assistant to support students with special educational needs in an outstanding school. The LSA role covers individuals and small groups across the curriculum, including pupils aged 11–19 with EHCPs, under the supervision of teaching staff.

You will contribute to planning, monitor progress, support behaviour and social development, and assist with exams as a scribe.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting students with EHCPs.
• Ability to scribe in exams and literacy skills.
• Willingness to undertake First Aid Training.

Responsibilities

• Work with individuals or small groups under supervision of teaching staff.
• Work with students away from the main classroom at times.
• Contribute to planning for individuals and groups.
• Monitor work and provide feedback to the teacher and contribute to record-keeping.
• Support students to understand instructions and support independent learning and inclusion.
• Support the teacher in behaviour management and keeping students on task.
• Support students' social and emotional development.
• Organise the learning environment including producing, maintaining and storing resources and contribute to maintaining a safe environment.
• Scribe in exams and support literacy.
• Contribute to annual review feedback and update LSPs.
• Lead and help with planning on interventions supported by SALT/EP/Pheonix.
• Have experience in dealing with medical needs and undergo First Aid Training.

Skills

Support SEN students

Behaviour management

Record-keeping

Exam scribe

Team collaboration

Education

First Aid Training

Job description

Are you an exceptional teaching assistant with a passion for supporting SEN students?

Stepney All Saints is an inner-city Church of England School graded Exceptional in five categories by OFSTED in February 2026. Our vision is that 'we will achieve excellence and inspire generations, the All Saints Way'. We are proud to be a truly comprehensive and inclusive school. We take pride in our ethos of academic excellence, inclusivity, exceptionally high standards of achievement and behaviour and tolerance and respect for all.

We are seeking to appoint LSAs to join a high achieving, hardworking department in an outstanding school. The department is expanding due to a rising number of students joining our school with EHCPs. Our LSAs work with students aged 11-19, across the curriculum and in all areas of need as identified within the SEND Code of Practice.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Work with individuals or small groups of puplis in the classroom under the direct supervision of teaching staff;
• Work with students away from the mainstream classroom at certain times;
• Contribute to planning for individuals and groups;
• Monitor work, feedback to the teacher and contribute to record-keeping;
• Support students to understand instructions and support independent learning and inclusion;
• Support the teacher in behaviour management and keeping students on task;
• Support students' social and emotional development;
• Support the organisation of the learning environment including producing, maintaining and storing reources and contribute to maintaining a safe environment;
• To be able to scribe in exams and be fluent in literacy;
• Contribute to annual review feedback and update LSPs;
• Lead and help with planning on interventions supported by SALT/EP/Pheonix;
• Have experience in dealing with medical needs and undergo First Aid Training.