Learning Support Assistants - The Grange School

Buckinghamshire Council; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading school in Aylesbury is seeking Learning Support Assistants for its expanding SEN provision. This role provides vital support to students with physical and learning disabilities, ensuring their educational success. Candidates should have knowledge of student needs and experience in education is preferred but not mandatory as training will be provided.

Benefits

Robust staff well-being programme

Access to free support resources

Qualifications

• Desirable: Experience in an educational setting.
• Willingness to undergo training if necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual support and personal care for students with disabilities.
• Assist with educational activities and pastoral care.

Skills

Knowledge of students with learning difficulties

Experience working with secondary school age students

Job description

Learning Support Assistants - The Grange School

Location: Aylesbury

Term time only

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 2, Point 11 £18,355 to Point 15 £19,891 approximately

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 39 weeks per year, 8.15 am – 3.15 pm Monday – Friday (term time only plus staff training days)

Interviews to be held: Week commencing 17 July 2025

About us

Judged to be a Good School by Ofsted in April 2024, we are a mixed, non-selective 11-18 Foundation secondary school situated in the market town of Aylesbury and ten minutes from the Chiltern Hills – an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Oxford, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes and surrounded by delightful market towns and characterful villages. The students and staff at The Grange School make it a fantastic place to work. Our students are friendly and confident, and we strive to ensure that they achieve the success that they deserve. Together we have created a successful community school, where students learn the skills for success.

We support our staff with a robust staff well-being programme. All staff have access to a wealth of free support resources and materials to ensure they feel supported and happy.

Due to our increasingly popular SEN provision we are looking to expand our current LSA team.

We require Learning Support Assistants to provide individual support and personal/pastoral care for students with physical and/or learning disabilities.

About you

It would be desirable for the successful candidates to have the following, however training will be given:

• Knowledge of the needs of students with learning difficulties/physical disabilities
• Experience of working with students of secondary school age (preferably in an education setting)

Other information

Visits to the school are welcomed. Further details are available on our website.

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.

Please send completed application forms to the email address below.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students, thus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.

The school is committed to ensuring that safeguarding is a top priority and will consider carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence. Online searches solely aim to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school may want to explore with the applicant at interview.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.