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Learning Support Assistant (SEND)
Longfield, Kent
Full-Time, Temporary
ASAP Start to July 2025
£90 - £100 per day
Pearson Whiffin Education seeks a long-term SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) Learning Support Assistant for a secondary school in Longfield, Kent. The position starts ASAP and runs through to July.
In this role, you will work partly in the school's SEND unit and partly alongside the same students in mainstream classes. Your role will mix 1:1 work with small group sessions. You will play a pivotal role in safeguarding a child during their time at school, ensuring they attend lessons and achieve their best outcomes.
Your responsibilities as an Learning Support Assistant will include:
- Provide 1:1 support for secondary age students in an SEND provision and in mainstream classes
- Ensure the students attendance at all lessons
- Supporting students in their learning in a way that suits their needs
- Managing their behaviour to ensure the best possible learning outcomes
- Assisting with maintaining a safe and positive environment throughout the school
- Being alert to, and responding to any safeguarding or pastoral concerns
Prior experience as a Learning Support Assistant or in an SEND specialist role is preferred. You will build a strong relationship with students to support their emotional and educational progress. Your key objective will be to enhance their learning outcomes through targeted subject support.
Benefits of working for Pearson Whiffin Education:
- A specialist education team with over 20 years of recruitment experience in the Kent market
- A dedicated candidate manager to support you through the registration and compliance process
- Support with your CV, application forms and interview prep as and when you need it
- A team that knows the value of working locally and wants to help you find the most suitable role for you
- A commitment to transparency and honesty in how we work with both our candidates and schools
- Competitive rates of pay and a simple payroll system meaning you get paid correctly every week
If you have the necessary skills and would like to find out more about this Learning Support Assistant job in Longfield, then please contact Daniel Goodwin on 01732 795109, Whatsapp 07568113083 or email .
Is this role not quite right for you? Do you know someone who should apply? Recommend them to us and we will reward you with a referral bonus.*
Pearson Whiffin Education offer a specialist recruitment and supply service to schools and school based staff across Kent including Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury, Ashford, Sittingbourne, Faversham, Maidstone, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester, Strood, Gravesend, Ebbsfleet, Northfleet and Dartford.
Pearson Whiffin Education are always looking for new candidates. Please contact us if you are a teacher, tutor, instructor, cover supervisor, HLTA, teaching assistant, pastoral support, behaviour support, SEMH and SEND specialist staff, premises manager, premises assistant or school specialist administrator and you are looking for your next job opportunity.
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