Part Time Learning Support Assistant

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Job Title:  Part Time Learning Support Assistant
Location:  Fieldstone School, Devon, TQ12 1NH
Salary:      £13.25 per hour
Hours:      15 hours per week, Thursday & Friday
Contract:  Permanent, Full Time
Start:         November 2025
UK applicants only – this role does not offer sponsorship

About the Role

As a Learning Support Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in helping pupils with special educational needs thrive—both academically and personally. Working closely with the Deputy Principal, class teacher, and wider team, you’ll help create a learning environment where every pupil feels supported, included, and empowered to succeed.

This is a hands-on, rewarding role where you’ll build strong relationships, adapt learning to meet individual needs, and make a real difference in pupils’ confidence, progress, and wellbeing.

What You’ll Be Doing

In the Classroom

• Work under the guidance of the class teacher to plan and deliver tailored learning for individuals and small groups
• Support pupils with special needs to access learning, develop skills, and reach their targets
• Help create a positive, purposeful, and well-organised learning space
• Promote inclusion and ensure every pupil has the chance to participate and succeed
• Prepare resources, set up learning areas, and assist with classroom organisation

Supporting Pupils’ Wellbeing

• Build strong, supportive relationships and act as a positive role model
• Encourage positive behaviour and support social and emotional development
• Assist pupils who are distressed, unsettled, or unwell, with care and sensitivity
• Help deliver individual learning programmes and contribute to education plans
• Support access to specialist provision as identified in a pupil’s needs

What You’ll Bring

Essential:

• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Experience working with children or young people
• Experience supporting those with additional or special educational needs
• Some administrative or classroom support experience
• Training in relevant learning strategies or curriculum areas (or willingness to train)

If you’re passionate about helping pupils feel understood, valued, and capable of achieving their best, this role offers the chance to have a meaningful, lasting impact every single day.

About us 

Fieldstone School is an independent day school, supporting the most vulnerable young people in society aged 5-16; those children who do not find it easy to fit into existing educational provision. This can be for many reasons, including a range of behavioural, emotional and educational challenges, exacerbated by being on the autistic spectrum. Other difficulties such as sensory processing disorders, attachment disorders or those having faced trauma in their lives.

It is our intention that every student will achieve their full potential in both academic and personal development. As a day school, we provide an alternative to residential education which supports our students to develop independence and social skills whilst living in their home environment.

We are part of Acorn Education and can offer plenty of challenges along with a wide range of opportunities to develop your career. Acorn Education is the UK’s leading provider of specialist education for children and young people with special educational needs. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in creating and delivering innovative approaches that achieve measurable outcomes for those in our care. 

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.

Why join Acorn Education? 

We place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, which enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover
• Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support. 

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Outcomes First Group is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whilst we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, Outcomes First Group does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales.

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