Learning Support Assistant

The Methodist Church in Britain; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to CPD programme

Networking opportunities across Trust

Job summary

The Keys Academy Trust invites applications for a Learning Support Assistant at St Nicholas CofE Primary in the EYFS team. This fixed-term role is 17 hours per week across term time with a half-hour lunchtime duty. Trust-wide CPD access is included, and Enhanced DBS plus past-employer checks are required.

Visa sponsorship is not available. Key duties include supporting pupils with additional needs, fostering literacy and numeracy, and promoting positive behaviour in line with school policies and

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working with children.

Responsibilities

• Support pupils with additional needs across EYFS.
• Establish positive relationships with pupils.
• Support pupils with activities that build literacy and numeracy skills.
• Promote positive behaviour and help keep pupils on track.
• Assist with displaying and presenting pupils' work.
• Work in line with the national curriculum, codes of practice and school policies and procedures.
• Lunchtime duty (half an hour, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday).

Skills

Equality awareness

Health and safety basics

Child protection procedures

Job description

This Learning Support Assistant post sits in the EYFS team at St Nicholas CofE Primary, part of The Keys Academy Trust, on a fixed-term basis. The role centres on helping pupils with additional needs in the early years, building their literacy and numeracy and keeping them on track with their behaviour. Hours are 17 a week across term time, with a half-hour lunchtime duty, and the post gives access to Trust-wide CPD. Enhanced DBS and past-employer checks are required, and visa sponsorship is not available.

What the job involves

• Support pupils with additional needs across EYFS
• Establish positive relationships with pupils
• Support pupils with activities that build literacy and numeracy skills
• Promote positive behaviour and help keep pupils on track
• Assist with displaying and presenting pupils' work
• Work in line with the national curriculum, codes of practice and school policies and procedures
• Lunchtime duty (half an hour, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)

Experience

• Previous experience of working with children

Skills & knowledge

• Awareness of commitment to equality
• Basic understanding of health and safety
• Understanding and implementing child protection procedures

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS criminal records check
• Willingness to undergo checks with past employers

Other

• Commitment to supporting and encouraging all children to reach their potential
• Application and responses completed personally, not generated by AI or automated tools

Nice to have

• Experience of working in EYFS

What’s offered

• Access to the Trust's CPD programme
• Networking opportunities across the Trust's family of schools