Havering Schools Jobs
Learning Support Assistant
- Employer: Oasis Academy Pinewood
- Reference: SCH/25/324925
Role: Learning Support Assistant
Location: Oasis Academy Pinewood
Salary: Scale 2 (3-5) Outer London / £28,617-£29,436 FTE / £19,446-£20,002 actual
Hours: 8.40am – 3.10pm (30 hours) / Monday-Friday / Term time only
Contract: Fixed Term until 17th July 2026
Start date: November 2025
Applications close: 10.00am on Monday 10th November 2025
Interviews scheduled: 11th & 12th November 2025
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated SEND specialist? Do you have experience working as a Learning Support Assistant? Are you looking to join a warm and welcoming academy team based in a beautiful local area? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
At Oasis Academy Pinewood, we’re recruiting a team of Learning Support Assistants to support the education and care of children with SEND needs. It’s an exciting time to join the Pinewood family as a group where you can shape your work and set top-quality standards for our SEND provisions.
We’re looking for a positive and friendly team player, with a real passion for holistic education. Working collaboratively with class teachers, you will be responsible for creating rich, inclusive and balanced educational environments for the children you work with directly, in addition wo working with the wider class group as needed. In return, you’ll have access to a plethora of CPD opportunities within our academy and Trust wide.
You will expect the best of our students and give them your best in return. Most importantly, you will be committed to and skilled at helping children achieve, no matter what their starting point is.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Consistently showing up for all students in a positive, enthusiastic and motivating way, and supporting them to develop these qualities
- Leading the learning support for identified students with SEND needs, both autonomously and under the direction of the class teacher
- Building strong relationships with families to boost achievement, attendance and wellbeing
A full job description is attached to this vacancy.
You’ll bring:
- Innovative and creative approaches to building rich learning environments for SEND students, accommodating their specific needs
- A passion for working with SEND students, and a sky-is-the-limit attitude
- An ability to quickly form string working relationships with colleagues, parents and carers and the wider school community
Our offer to you
- Engaged children and staff team that will make coming to work every day a joy
- Clear career progression, both within the academy and wider Trust
- Trust-wide opportunities to make a difference to the lives of all Oasis students
- Excellent IT provision including laptops and iPads
- Access to extensive, specialised, CPD support
- A beautiful location with extensive grounds, on the edge of a country park that we make use of as a Forest School
Application process
If you’re interested and you would like to know more, we welcome conversations or school visits. Start your application to find out how to arrange this.
Or, if you can’t wait to apply and start the conversation at an interview – please click ‘fast apply’ to complete the application form and tell us all about you, your experience and how your ambition to see every student succeed matches ours.
Closing date: 10.00am on Monday 10th November 2025
Interviews: 11th & 12th November 2025
If you intend to apply, we recommend you submit your application as soon as possible. We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted and holding interviews in line with this. This could result in the advert closing before the advertised date.
Havering Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The protection of our pupils from abuse is the responsibility of all staff within our schools, superseding any other considerations. Therefore Havering Schools comply with the Department for Education ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance.
It is an offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. Please be advised that, again in line with ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, shortlisted candidates (who wish to accept an invite to interview) will be required to submit, prior to their interview, a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Upon submission of this information, online checks may be carried out.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the successful applicant will be expected to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure check. Having a criminal record will not necessarily debar you from obtaining a position with the School.
Equal OpportunitiesHavering Schools aim to promote and ensure equality of opportunity and equal treatment for all. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), ethnic or national origins, disabilities, age, sexual orientation, responsibility for dependants, religious or political affiliation and trade union activities. All matters related to employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
How to apply
To apply, please visit https://oasisacademypinewood.schoolrecruiter.com/application-register?vacancyId=1514987&lang=en-GB&src=Havering_Jobs and submit your application by clicking the 'Fast Apply' button.