Individual Learning Support Assistant
Newcastle City Council
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom£26,403 - £27,254 p.a. Actual salary £22,058- £22,769 p.aCloses: 26 Jun
Sir Charles Parsons School
Westbourne Avenue
Walker
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 4ED
Fixed term post until 31st March 2027.
Sir Charles Parsons School is a secondary school (11 - 19) catering for students who experience significant and profound learning difficulties. This includes students whose behaviour may at times challenge those supporting them. The school was judged by Ofsted to be an ‘outstanding school’ after its last five inspections in October 2006, June 2010, March 2015, January 2019 and July 2024.
Due to the school’s continued growth and increasing student numbers we are looking to appoint a number of support staff to join our team.
Candidates should be:
Individual Learning Support Assistants support the education, health and welfare needs of students across the school on a 1:1 basis. The school is particularly interested in appointing staff to this post who have previous experience of working with young people who have complex health needs. The post is graded at N4 with a pro-rata annual salary.
This post is 36 hours per week, term time plus 5 training days.
Candidates should note the working hours for these posts 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 are downloadable from the school’s website at www.scp.newcastle.sch.uk or available from and returnable to Mrs. Deborah Lant, School Business Manager at deborah.lant@scp.newcastle.sch.uk or telephone number 0191 2952280.
Closing Date: Friday 26th June 2026 at 12 (noon)
Interviews will be week commencing 6th July 2026.
Westbourne Avenue
Walker
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 4ED
Fixed term post until 31st March 2027.
Sir Charles Parsons School is a secondary school (11 - 19) catering for students who experience significant and profound learning difficulties. This includes students whose behaviour may at times challenge those supporting them. The school was judged by Ofsted to be an ‘outstanding school’ after its last five inspections in October 2006, June 2010, March 2015, January 2019 and July 2024.
Due to the school’s continued growth and increasing student numbers we are looking to appoint a number of support staff to join our team.
Candidates should be:
- 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; and;
- resilient and able to focus on finding solutions to the issues and problems experienced in any school.
- Successful applicants will join a school:
- with a friendly, supportive team ethos;
- that provides excellent professional development opportunities;
- which is dynamic, forward looking and constantly challenging itself to further improve the quality of its provision.
Individual Learning Support Assistants support the education, health and welfare needs of students across the school on a 1:1 basis. The school is particularly interested in appointing staff to this post who have previous experience of working with young people who have complex health needs. The post is graded at N4 with a pro-rata annual salary.
This post is 36 hours per week, term time plus 5 training days.
Candidates should note the working hours for these posts 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 are downloadable from the school’s website at www.scp.newcastle.sch.uk or available from and returnable to Mrs. Deborah Lant, School Business Manager at deborah.lant@scp.newcastle.sch.uk or telephone number 0191 2952280.
Closing Date: Friday 26th June 2026 at 12 (noon)
Interviews will be week commencing 6th July 2026.