Learning Support Assistant - Widmer End Combined School and Pre-School
Location: Widmer End
Overview
Looking for a Learning Support Assistant to become part of the team from September 2025 on a part time, fixed term contract with a possibility to extend or become permanent.
Term time only: Yes
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Range 1B/2 depending on experience
Contract type: Fixed Term
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 10/07/2025 12:00
Interviews to be held: Week commencing 14th July 2025
About us
Widmer End Community Combined School and Preschool is an engaging and vibrant value-driven school community with nurture at the heart of all we do. We have a fun and enthusiastic team of staff who enjoy supporting children’s development and providing them with great opportunities to learn across the curriculum. We provide a happy and secure environment for everyone in our community where we value and respect others and ourselves, following the school’s six core values: Unity, Trust, Courage, Curiosity, Happiness and Respect.
Website: www.widmerend.bucks.sch.uk
About the role
Widmer End Community Combined School and Preschool is looking to appoint a friendly, enthusiastic and hard-working Learning Support Assistant to join our dedicated team.
What we can offer:
● A highly supportive team, committed to raising standards in a welcoming environment
● A school with a clear vision for the future
● Well behaved and responsive children who enjoy learning
● A well-resourced school and stimulating environment
● A strong emphasis on staff wellbeing and teamwork
● Opportunities for professional development
For further information please see attached Job description.
About you
The successful candidate will be:
● Able to demonstrate suitable experience and/or qualifications for working in a school
● Highly motivated in supporting our children to make excellent progress
● Able to respond appropriately to the wide ranging needs of our pupils
● A caring and patient individual
● Hard working and conscientious
● Highly skilled at delivering interventions across both Key Stages
● Flexible and able to work on your own initiative
● Creative and full of energy
The successful candidate will have:
● A good standard of English and Maths
● Excellent communication skills
● A commitment to teamwork and a good sense of humour
● Experience of supporting pupils with additional needs
For further information please see attached Person specification.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged; please ring to make an appointment.
Further information, including an application form, a job description and person specification, can be obtained from the school by visiting the website at www.widmerend.bucks.sch.uk
Widmer End Community Combined School is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our pupils. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
