Learning Support Assistant - Holmer Green Senior School
Location: Little Missenden
Overview
Term time only: Yes
Salary type: Bucks Pay
Salary Details: Bucks Pay Range 1 - 2: FTE £23,996 - £27,770 (depending on experience)
Actual Salary: £18,836 - £21,799
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Closing date: 14/11/2025
Interviews to be held: w/c 17th November
About us
Holmer Green is a popular 11 to 18 school with 1250+ students (including a large Sixth form) and is expanding. As a school we are in the top 10% of schools nationally for KS4 progress and in the top 5% of schools nationally for KS5 progress. As part of our expansion plan we now have a range of new modern facilities.
We can offer 8 staff training days (not the 5 you find in most schools), a two week October half term, professional development of a high standard. We take our staff well-being seriously and offer weekly activities, like team sports and a brand new fitness suite.
website: www.holmer.org.uk
About the role
We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant to promote teaching and learning within our Learning Support Department and our Speech & Language ARP. This is a varied, challenging and highly interesting role and we are looking for either experienced or inexperienced candidates. Our SEN department is friendly, welcoming and encourages CPD.
The successful candidate would answer to the SEN Office Manager and work within a large and supportive team of LSAs.
For further information please see attached Job description.
About you
- Ability to communicate effectively with secondary aged students
- Ability to use ICT to support learning
- A good standard of general education
- Maths and English qualifications (GCSE), higher education qualifications (A Level, NVQ) an advantage
For further information please see attached Person specification.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.
Tel No: 01494 712219
Email: [email protected]
For an application pack, please see our website www.holmer.org.uk
Applications to be returned to Ms Ali McKee [email protected]
Holmer Green Senior School is committed to the welfare and safeguarding of all its students and therefore all appointments are made subject to satisfactory Enhanced DBS, qualification and pre-employment checks
As part of the shortlisting process, we will carry out an online search (including social media) as part of our due diligence on the shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
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.
