Learning Support Assistant

Are you passionate about helping young people overcome barriers, grow in confidence and achieve their full potential?

Learning Support Assistant - Beacon 1

Location: Bradford - working across two College sites

Salary: £20,825.11 actual salary (£25,989 FTE), Band 5 OPT, Scale Point 6

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am-4.00pm

Contract: Permanent, term-time only plus two days

Start date: As soon as possible

Closing date: Friday 25 September 2026 at 12 noon

St Bede’s and St Joseph’s Catholic College is seeking a positive, resilient and committed Learning Support Assistant to join its SEND and Inclusion team.

The College is a highly aspirational learning community dedicated to providing an outstanding education for every student. Operating across two sites approximately one mile apart, it offers a vibrant, diverse and supportive environment in which students and staff are encouraged to achieve their full potential.

The Role

Working with the SEND team and wider Inclusion provision, you will provide one-to-one and small-group support to students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and English as an additional language (EAL).

You will help students engage positively with learning, develop their independence and make good progress throughout their college life.

Your responsibilities will include:

Supporting identified students individually and in small groups

Delivering learning activities, mentoring sessions and targeted interventions

Monitoring students’ progress and providing constructive feedback

Supporting teachers with agreed learning, care and support programmes

Helping to create an orderly, purposeful and inclusive learning environment

Promoting positive behaviour, self-esteem and independent learning

Assisting with Individual Education Plans and Personal Care Programmes

Supporting students within classrooms and the College’s Inclusion and behaviour-support provisions

Supervising students outside lesson times and those completing internal exclusions

Administering routine tests and invigilating examinations when required

Liaising appropriately with teachers, other professionals and parents

Undertaking First Aid training and providing support when necessary

About You

The successful candidate will be a caring and confident team player with excellent communication, organisational and mentoring ski...