Learning Support Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; West of England; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuing Professional and Leadership

Employee assistance programme

Onsite parking or easy transport

Flexible working

Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension

Job summary

Amplify Education, Trinity Academy Bristol, is seeking an inspiring Learning Support Assistant to provide outstanding learning support to individual students with SEN, starting January 2027. The role is on-site within a busy, ambitious school that values pupil progress and safeguarding.

Working under the direction of the SENDCo, you will help pupils achieve their best, bring strong people skills, and contribute to a supportive learning environment.

Qualifications

• You are likely to have gained experience in working with young people in a school setting and have a track record of impact through your career or personal experience.
• You will be able to bring to us a drive and determination to ensure that every student receives the support they need to be the best version of themselves.
• You will need to have great people skills and deeply care for all young people.

Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding learning support to individual students with special educational needs or other barriers to learning.
• Support academic achievement under the direction of the SENDCo.

Skills

Experience with young people

People skills

Safeguarding commitment

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Opportunity

We are looking for an inspiring LSA to provide outstanding learning support to individual students from January 2027. This is a key role for the Academy in fulfilling its commitment to develop “the heart” of the school. You will be ensuring that every child achieves their absolute best by working closely with young people who have special educational needs, or other barriers to learning and provide support for their academic achievement, under the direction of the SENDCo

About You

You are likely to have gained experience in working with young people in a school setting and have a track record of impact through your career or personal experience. You will be able to bring to us a drive and determination to ensure that every student receives the support they need to be the best version of themselves. You will need to have great people skills and deeply care for all young people.

What the school offers its staff

• Trinity is a ‘Good’ school with ‘Outstanding’ leadership and management and ‘Outstanding‘ Personal Development’ (Ofsted Jan 2024)
• “This is an ambitious school that wants the very best for its pupils, both academically and pastorally”.
• “The school’s curriculum is highly ambitious for all pupils”
• “Lessons are not disrupted by poor behaviour. The school is calm and orderly because pupils understand the rules and routines in place.”
• The progress of our students is significantly above the national average (P8 +0.53)
• We believe in our leaders - we do not micro manage
• We have hardworking staff and students who want to do well
• We ensure consistent behaviour and expectations allow you to focus on the craft and science of teaching
• Weekly coaching for all staff and weekly department co-planning
• Exceptionally visible and supportive senior leadership team
• Hardworking staff and students who want to do well
• Schemes of work fully resourced and ready

We can offer you

• Continuing Professional and Leadership development
• Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
• Onsite parking or easy access via public transport or onsite parking.
• Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
• All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.

Further details about the role

About Us

Amplify Education is a dynamic new multi-academy trust of 22 schools across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, formed through the thoughtful and planned merger of TiLA and CST. United by a shared vision, we are a bold voice for Bristol - committed to building belief in every young person, expanding opportunities, nurturing potential, and strengthening citizenship.

We are ambitious, reflective, and collaborative - driven to improve outcomes for young people while working together, learning from one another and continually strengthening our practice. If you are looking to make a real difference within a forward-thinking and supportive Trust, Amplify Education could be the place for you.

We invite you to join our team at Trinity Academy. Trinity is a highly oversubscribed free school that opened in 2019. We are a values based community that focuses on the learning of all students and staff, that cares deeply for our young people and each other and that is committed to co-curricular enrichment. Our stated goal is to be a +1 school for progress and as such, we are looking for an exceptional learning support assistant to join us in our mission.

More information about the Trust, School and Role

• To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
• To find out more about Amplify Education and Trinity Academy, please visit our websites: www.amplifyeducation.co.uk or www.trinityacademybristol.org
• Informal enquiries can be made via email to [e-mail]
• School visits are welcomed and can be arranged via email to Alice Thornton-Parr, HR and recruitment officer, [e-mail]

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:

• Ability to ensure and deliver effective safeguarding
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. The post is subject to satisfactory completion of all vetting checks including the provision of two strong references and an enhanced DBS check.