Learning Support Professional

Ormiston Bridge Academy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Ormiston Bridge Academy in Fulham seeks a Learning Support Professional to help learners overcome barriers to their education and reach their full potential. You will provide tailored support within the classroom and beyond, working closely with teaching staff to adapt learning materials to meet diverse needs.

The successful candidate will help learners develop confidence, resilience, and social-emotional skills, aligning with the academy's caring, supportive ethos and values-led approach.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting learners with diverse needs.
• Ability to adapt learning materials to meet varied abilities.
• Willing to work a Monday to Friday, 8:30am start, with a full UK driving license.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored in-class and beyond-classroom support to learners.
• Collaborate with teaching staff to adapt learning materials and approaches.
• Support learners to build confidence, resilience and social-emotional skills.

Skills

Patience

Classroom support

Communication skills

Teamwork

Job description

Located in Fulham, Ormiston Bridge Academy provides a caring environment based on integrity, mutual respect, and understanding. It seeks to reignite passion in education and aspiration. Each learner is treated as an individual and is supported to develop within an environment that develops a love of learning and the ability to create social and emotional skills fit for the world outside of education.

This is an incredible opportunity for a Learning Support Professional to make a difference and join a great team of people within a supportive, values-led organisation in the primary provision.

The successful candidate is required to a full clean UK driving license and the role will start at 8.30am Monday to Friday.

As a Learning Support Professional at Ormiston Bridge Academy, you will play a vital role in helping learners overcome barriers to their education and reach their full potential. You will provide tailored support within the classroom and beyond, working closely with teaching staff to adapt learning materials and approaches to meet the diverse needs of our students. By building positive relationships and offering guidance, encouragement, and practical strategies, you will help learners develop confidence, resilience, and the skills they need to engage fully with their education and prepare for future opportunities.

About the Academy

The main provision at Bridge academy is for secondary learner, but we have a primary provision onsite. Our learners are at risk of or have been excluded from mainstream settings. We serve the Hammersmith & Fulham borough, and we believe that success for our young people comes because of our specialist approach; we are interested in activities that develop all young people’s capabilities; their potential for employability; their ability to have successful healthy relationships; their ability to make safe life choices, enhancing their quality of life and the realisation of their aspirations.

Our approach considers our young people’s education experiences to date, their social-emotional health, their mental health, their family situation and experiences, and their special educational needs (SEN). We work closely with professionals, families, and other practitioners to affect change in our young people’s lives, ensuring our work is holistic and therefore creates success by any means for all our children. We are proud of the work that we do, and the environment of our school is caring supportive, and inclusive. We believe that through this approach we support our children, enhancing their quality of life and promoting the realisation of their aspirations.

“Pupils enjoy coming to Ormiston Academies. Staff work closely with pupils. They find out about their needs and the barriers to learning they may have had at their previous schools. Pupils said that they know the staff cares about them and their well-being.”

Ofsted September 2021

Why work for Ormiston?

Our vision is to create a school system where every child thrives, regardless of background. Our people are at the heart of our approach - they are our greatest asset.

We exist to provide the best learning opportunities every day, in every school for every child. It is the people and teams in our Trust who make this a reality and ensure we have the greatest impact. If you join us at Ormiston, whatever your role, your work will have purpose and meaning.

Ormiston, where every member of staff enjoys…

• The opportunity to build on the legacy of those who came before - being part of one of the longest standing Trusts, created with the sole purpose of enabling children and young people to thrive

• Working for a Trust nationally recognised for its impact on disadvantaged children - a rewarding, stimulating career where staff are challenged to be the best they can be, for the pupils we are proud to serve

• Being part of a team and community where you belong - being part of a well-resourced and ambitious network of experts and professionals that work at the heart of communities

• A supportive environment to grow your career - an extensive professional development programme, alongside flexible working arrangements and generous benefits

As a staff member at an Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) academy, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your professional development, personal well‑being, and work‑life balance. While specific benefits may vary slightly between individual academies, the core offerings across the Trust include:

• A collaborative space where people feel respected, empowered, and truly valued

• A nationwide school network offering shared resources and opportunities.

• Flexible working arrangements

• Automatic pay progression

• Generous pension and life cover

• Discounts on retail, travel and leisure through ourbenefitsplatform

• Access to discounts including the Blue Light Card

• Cycle to work scheme

• Access to health and well‑being programmes, including counselling service.

Ormiston Bridge Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Ormiston Academies Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Flexible working opportunities will be considered.

All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, qualifications, online searches, prohibition check, two references and enhanced DBS check including Children’s Barred List.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974