Learning Support Team Leader at Longspee Secondary Academy

Longspee Secondary Academy; Lower Blandford St Mary; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme

Eye testing for DSE users

Will writing service

Discount gym membership

LGPS pension

Job summary

Longspee Secondary Academy is seeking a Learning Support Team Leader to drive strategies for learning support and behaviour across the academy. You will lead a team of Learning Support staff, work with SLT, SENDCo, families, and external professionals to meet pupil needs, and implement therapeutic approaches.

You'll lead safeguarding, inclusion, wellbeing plans, monitor impact, and ensure statutory frameworks compliance while promoting positive development and academic progress.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and experience in managing teams.
• Excellent communication with colleagues, families and external professionals.
• Experience supporting pupils with diverse needs and implementing safeguarding/inclusion practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Learning Support across the academy.
• Collaborate with SLT, SENDCo, families and external professionals to meet pupil needs.
• Oversee behaviour management, wellbeing plans and rewards systems.
• Lead staff training on safeguarding, inclusion and positive handling techniques.
• Monitor and evaluate impact, ensuring compliance with statutory frameworks.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Behaviour management

Staff training

Job description

About this Role

Longspee Academy is an excellent specialist provision for young people with needs related to Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs, and Autism. By providing a calm and learning-focused environment, our pupils flourish and achieve, leading to accelerated outcomes in all areas of their development. Our school has a community feel and we take the time to ensure we are always striving to achieve the best.

Are you looking for a role that values your experience and expertise in working with young people and one where you can make a real difference. This unique role will require you to support and educate pupils to become resilient, safe and respectful learners, through the use of our therapeutic strategies including PACE, the Thrive approach and The Five Point Scale. You will have a strong belief that all behaviour is communication and that, with the right adult support, young people can learn the self-regulation skills needed to lead successful and happy lives.

We're looking for a dynamic Learning Support Team Leader to lead and manage our Learning Support team, driving strategies that promote positive behaviour, personal development, and academic progress.

In this role you will:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Learning Support across the academy.
• Collaborate with SLT, SENDCo, families, and external professionals to meet pupil needs.
• Oversee behaviour management, wellbeing plans, and rewards systems.
• Lead staff training on safeguarding, inclusion, and positive handling techniques.
• Monitor and evaluate impact, ensuring compliance with statutory frameworks.

You'll need strong leadership skills, excellent communication, and a commitment to fostering a positive, inclusive environment. Experience in managing teams and supporting pupils with diverse needs is essential.

What we have to Offer:

• A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.
• A strong support network both within the school and across Authentic Education Group.
• All staff are part of a professional learning community in which evidence-informed CPD is designed to meet individual needs.
• Strong potential for career progression.
• A culture that respects work-life balance and an ongoing commitment to wellbeing.
• An Employee Assistance Programme including in the moment support and counselling sessions with an external provider.
• AEG Staff benefits include free eye testing for DSE users through Specsavers, free will writing through Dunham McCarthy Solicitors and reduced price corporate gym membership through BH Live.
• A competitive pension through The Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff.

Additional Information

Authentic Education Group (AEG) comprises schools from all sectors: mainstream (primary and secondary) and special. AEG secures outstanding achievement and improved life chances of all our pupils. All our Academies have high expectations as the focus of their work. We are strongly committed to supporting colleagues in developing their careers further and offering excellent CPD opportunities.

Authentic Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant's background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks and an online search.