Learning Support Assistant - with responsibility for Social Communication and So
The Thomas Lord Audley School
Essex
- £20,523 - £21,535 per year
- New
- Salary:
- LGPS Scale 5, Point 9-12
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 3 November 2025
Job overview
Build Positive Relationships, Achieve Positive Outcomes at The Thomas Lord Audley School.
Are you looking to join a community that is truly dedicated to the success and well-being of its students? Do you have the skills to help every student reach their full potential, both academically and personally?
Learning Support Assistant with responsibility for Social Communication and Social Interactionto become a vital part of our community and help us continue to create a school that is characterised by positivity, challenge, and enjoyment.
- The successful candidate will work 32.5 hours per week
- This is a 39-week-per-year role, which includes term time and non-pupil days
A Day in the Life:
- Oversee interventions designed to assist those individuals with social communication, social interaction and sensory processing needs for e.g. Working with LEGO, Social Stories, Comic Strip Conversations, Awesome and In Control. This will include both Wave 2/3 interventions.
- To collate data and measure programmes for interventions, being able to identify impact using the Beating Bureaucracy Toolkit, progress data, observations, STAR reports and both student and teacher’s feedback every half term or the length of the intervention.
- To oversee one-to-one or small group interventions as necessary.
What We're Looking For:
- GCSE A - C (or equivalent) Maths and English
- Good general standard of education
- Understand the importance of physical and emotional wellbeing
Why Choose The Sigma Trust?
Professional Development:
- A robust CPD training program that empowers you to flourish.
- Unrivalled opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across the Trust, sharing ideas and building strong professional relationships.
Employee Benefits:
- A competitive salary and excellent pension scheme.
- A Health Cash Plan and Employee Assistance Programme for your well-being.
- Exclusive perks like the Cycle to Work scheme, discounted gym memberships, cinema tickets, and eligibility for a Blue Light Card.
Commitment to Safeguarding & Diversity
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About The Thomas Lord Audley School
- The Thomas Lord Audley School
- Monkwick Avenue, Monkwick, Colchester
- Essex
- CO2 8NJ
- United Kingdom
The Thomas Lord Audley School is a high performing, over-subscribed 11-16 comprehensive school, situated to the south of Colchester. It serves a wide and diverse catchment area, including Old Heath, Monkwick, Shrub End, the villages to the south of Colchester and the community of Mersea Island. Students achieve a good standard of GCSE results in a wide range of subjects including English and Maths.
The Thomas Lord Audley School is a community in which every student matters. We have high expectations of all students with respect to behaviour, attendance and punctuality and have developed a curriculum, which enables our students to develop as young people as well as achieve good exam results. We have a highly committed and well-qualified staff who encourage students to give their best in all aspects of school life.
The school achieved an impressive ‘Good’ in its Ofsted inspection in February 2020, which recognised the further developments we have made following our previous ‘Good’ in April 2016. Furthermore the school was recognised as the Most Improved Secondary School in Essex in 2016.
We very much value the commitment and determination of all our staff in ensuring that the students access a high quality education. The school is value driven and not inclined to game the system or focus exclusively on the quick fix. Our SLT is mature and well rounded and we have excellent relationships with colleagues. We are a happy school and have a relatively low staff turnover because staff in general feel well supported both personally and professionally. As a school, we take a considered approach to school improvement and performance management. We believe in building on our strengths and developing a few key aspects of our provision in depth and over time in order to have a sustained positive impact on students and to enable staff to experience professional satisfaction.
The Thomas Lord Audley School is pleased to be a member of the Sigma Trust and we fully subscribe to the Trust’s Mission, Vision and Values. We have positive relationships with our partner schools and fully engage in a wide range of activities. A number of colleagues are involved in leading aspects of Trust development at a senior level and other colleagues are participating in middle and senior leadership courses. We are keen to enable members of staff to develop their professional expertise and career.
We would very much welcome an application from you and think that if you came to work here you would have a positive experience.
Simon Essex
Headteacher
Safeguarding
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