Learning Support Assistant

Key Information:

Role: Learning Support Assistant 

Location: St Albans 

Hours: 9:30am - 3:30pm, term-time only

Full-time, 5-days a week 

Role Overview

We are urgently seeking a Learning Support Assistant would play a frontline role in promoting positive behaviour, strong personal development, and high levels of engagement for learnersacross Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. The role supports learners who are at risk of exclusion or who have disengaged from mainstream education.

You will act as a consistent, trusted adult who help learners feel safe, supported, and able to engage positively in education.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver daily coaching and mentoring sessions, including physical activity-based routines, reflection activities, and emotional check-ins
• Facilitate 1:1 and small group SEMH interventions to build emotional literacy, resilience, and self-regulation
• Support learner engagement within KS4 BTEC vocational sessions alongside tutors
• Model and reinforce positive behaviour, routines, and expectations

Relationships, Routines & Culture

• Support learners to develop coping strategies and habits that promote long-term success.

• Build consistent, trusting relationships with learners who may have experienced trauma, exclusion, or instability

Ideal Candidate

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Youth Work, Education Support, Health & Social Care, Sports Coaching, or a related field.
• Experience working with children or young people with SEMH and/or SEND needs.
• Strong understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on behaviour and learning.
• Experience using behaviour management strategies, including de-escalation, restorative, and relational approaches.
• Experience delivering or supporting mentoring, coaching, or emotional well-being interventions.
• Up-to-date safeguarding training (or willingness to undertake)
• First Aid qualification (or willingness to complete)

Key Qualities & Skills

• Calm, empathetic, and emotionally resilient
• Confidently engaging hard-to-reach learners with authenticity and positivity
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to remain consistent and professional under pressure
• Resilient, reflective, and solution-focused
• Commitment to inclusion, equity, and child-centred practice
• Able to work independently while contributing effectively to a team

This role is ideal for practitioners who want to make a tangible difference to behaviour, engagement, and life chances for vulnerable young people within a trauma-informed alternative provision setting.

If you’re passionate about supporting children in an alternative provision setting and are ready to take the next step in your SEN career, we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply now with your CV via the link or email lilla.shaw@teachingpersonnel.com  

*Please note, applicants without a enhanced (child only) DBS will not be considered*

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All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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