Learning Support Assistant - Special Needs N5

Job Overview

Sir Charles Parsons School is a secondary school (11-19) catering for students who experience significant and profound learning difficulties. The school was judged an ‘outstanding school’ in recent Ofsted inspections.

Due to growth we are looking to appoint support staff.

• Enthusiastic and keen to support and develop new initiatives.
• Able to work effectively as a member of a team with educational and other professionals, both from within and outside the school.
• Committed to improving the provision offered to our students through rigorous professional self review and development.
• Resilient and able to focus on finding solutions to the issues and problems experienced in any school.

• Friendly, supportive team ethos.
• Excellent professional development opportunities.
• Dynamic, forward looking and constantly challenging itself to further improve the quality of its provision.

All necessary training to enable the successful candidates to fulfil the responsibilities of their posts will be provided.

Support the educational and welfare needs of students across the school. The post is graded at N5 with a pro‑rata annual salary.

36 hours per week, term time plus 5 training days. Working hours include working until 4.40 p.m. every Monday and until 5.10 p.m. on either a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

The school is strongly committed to safer recruitment practice and pre‑employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. All posts are subject to enhanced disclosure and barring service checks. We expect all adults to share our commitment to safeguarding and the health and wellbeing of our students and staff.

As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.

Job descriptions, person spec and application forms downloadable from the school’s website at  or available from and returnable to Mrs. Deborah Lant, School Business Manager at debor or telephone number .

Closing Date:
Friday 16th January 2026 at 12 (noon). Interviews will be week commencing 26th January 2026.