Learning Support Assistant

**Salary**:
Actual Salary: £23,389 to £24,785 per annum

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

4 April 2025

**Job overview**:
Great Oaks College is an expanding specialist independent college and we are colocated within Oaklands School, a new state of the art, purpose built premises located in Gresham Road, Hounslow, close to Osterley Tube Station.

However, in September 2025 we are relocating to a new building in Sunbury (Surrey).

The college provides further educational opportunities to students aged 19-24 with moderate, severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties or autism. We run three Pathways, Vocational, Life and Living and Engagement for Life

We are looking to employ a Learning Support Assistant to our team. As well as being calm and patient, you will need a good team working skills and be passionate about supporting students with special educational needs. Applicants must be physically fit and willing to undertake all aspects of personal care including toileting and feeding.

We believe that all of our students are capable of making outstanding progress and we want to appoint individuals who share this belief. Please refer to the person specification and job description for full details of the role and the essential knowledge and skills required.

We value our employees and offer a supportive and engaging environment, comprehensive Induction, Inset and excellent Continuous Personal Development Training Sessions, NEST Pension with this role, Employee Assistance Programme, access to Staff Discounts, and other well-being benefits:

- An employee assistance programme,
- Access to Private Doctors and Nurses 24/7 free of charge
- Free on-site gym with showers,
- Daily staff breakfasts and have 5 a day fruits to keep you well,
- Blue Light Card
- Online shopping discounts available,
- Cycle to work scheme,
- Leave of absence policy with paid time off (under the discretion of a College Principal)to support with unforeseeable life matters,
- Free eye test for the display screen users,
- Employee referral reward,

Closing Date: TBC

Interview Date: TBC

Start Date: TBC 2025( depending on the compliance checks)

Pay Scale: Inner London Pay Scale 5 between point 11, £32,346 pa and point 15, £34,275 pa for the full time employee working 52 weeks in a year.

Actual Salary: £23,389 to £24,785 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent - Term Time Only (39 weeks)

Hours of work: Monday to Friday 8:30 - 15:15, 30 hours per week, 30 hours a week.

CV’s will not be accepted. No Agencies Please

**About**Great Oaks College**:
**Great Oaks College**
- Gresham Road, Hounslow
- Middlesex
- TW3 4BX
- United Kingdom

+44 20 3962 9009

Great Oaks College is a new specialist independent college new state of the art, purpose built premises located in Gresham Road, Hounslow. We are close to Osterley Tube Station and public transport routes and just fifteen minutes walk from Hounslow bus station. The college provides further educational opportunities to students aged 19-24 that have moderate, severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties or autism.

We run three Pathways within Great Oaks College. The Life Skills Pathway is for young people who need to remain in education to develop skills for supported living. The Vocational Pathway supports our students to develop the skills they require to gain employment. The Sensory Pathway supports students that have Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. Within this course, students are supported to develop their communication, ICT and independence skills.