Learning Support Assistant

Role: Learning Support Assistant

Location:Honiton

Contract: Temporary, long term contract

Start: January 2025

Salary:£105 - £120 per day (depending on working hours and experience)

Are you passionate about supporting young people to develop essential life skills and reach their goals? Do you want to play a pivotal role in preparing young people for adulthood?

Long-Term Teachers are recruiting a dedicated and learning support assistant to work with post-16 students who have Educational Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). This rewarding role offers the chance to make a real difference by helping young people achieve greater independence and build brighter futures. This is a truly unique role as all learning is done out in the community.

About the role:

As a learning support assistant, you’ll work closely with a student on a 1:1 basis in diverse community settings, including learning hubs, libraries, workplaces and leisure facilities. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting your student to develop practical life skills tailored to their individual needs

• Delivering accredited learning based on a personalised curriculum

• Assessing student progress and celebrating their achievements

• Travelling alongside students to various community-based locations, ensuring their learning takes place in meaningful, real-world environments

The ideal candidate:

To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

• A passion for working with young people and supporting their development

• Previous experience working with young people in the UK is essential

• Experience working with special educational needs would be advantageous

• Flexibility to travel between community locations

• Strong communication and organisational skills

• Confident in working with and taking students off-site to a range of settings

• Able to drive and have access to your own car (you will need to get business insurance for this role)

You will be working Monday to Friday, term time only. Working hours are 9am - 4:30pm.

If you’re ready to embark on a fulfilling career helping young people develop confidence, independence and essential life skills, we want to hear from you!

Working with Long-term Teachers:

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.

LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.

We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.

In addition you will receive:

• Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities

• Permanent job roles

• Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process

• Working to Agency Workers Regulations

• Interview preparation, advice and support

• Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay