Learning Support Assistant

Hours: 36 hours per week, Term-time only (44 weeks)

Contract: Permanent

Salary:  £20,879 - £22,503 (actual)

Closing Date: 18/12/2025

Location: Cross-Campus

About Us: 

At West London College, we are committed to championing innovation and creativity, and we invite you to join us on this journey. We welcome applicants who can share our values of Ambition, Innovation, Accountability, Collaboration and Inclusion.

We have three college sites across West London: Ealing, Hammersmith, and Southall. By bringing your skills to the College, you will have a wonderful opportunity to make a difference in our students’ education and future. As a diverse College in the UK, we offer an exciting, innovative and stimulating work environment with a wide variety of employment opportunities. 

For further information about the College, please visit our website.

About the role:

We are currently looking to recruit dedicated and highly motivated Learning Support Assistants to join our Learning Support teams in our Inclusive Learning Department and Additional Learning Support to continue our work delivering an outstanding experience for the learners we serve.

The role will involve working with learners across the College who have a variety of educational requirements, including providing underpinning support to enable learners to access learning for the development of practical and academic skills, participating in outside trips and visits and offering every possible advantage to this group of young people.

As a Learning Support Assistant, you will be collaborating with the amazing young people referred to us for additional learning support and will demonstrate high levels of ambition for those young people. You will be friendly and empathetic and excel in building strong, respectful working relationships with learners, teammates and others.

You will provide support for learners on the programme by implementing an effective range of learning strategies to ensure outstanding learning outcomes and enable each to realise their full potential. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work independently and as part of a team, logically analysing the progress of those being supported and adapting strategies to bring about change.

The person:

Essentially, you will have experience working with young people, ideally with those who have additional learning needs. You should have excellent communication and influencing skills, good IT skills and a good general education, including Maths and English GCSE or equivalent.

You will have a strong track record of being involved with practitioners delivering good or better teaching and learning delivery whilst achieving high levels of learner success. You will also have experience of supporting students with additional needs, ideally including high-functioning autism and/or social, emotional and mental health needs. You will be prepared to provide personal support, for example, by administering medicines, if appropriate, once training has been received.

What we offer:

Our team are important to us, and we offer a wide range of benefits to recognise the hard work put into supporting our learners. As a Teacher, you will receive:

• Generous Holiday Allowance, plus bank holidays (8) and college closure days at Christmas (3)
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Interest-free loans for Season tickets, Computers
• Contributory average salary with Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Continuous Professional Development Events (CPD)
• Access to Perkbox, our rewards and discount platform
• Access to the Colleges Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Discount at the College's on-site hair and beauty salon.

Important Information:

The safety and welfare of our learners and staff are extremely important to us, and this is why we pride ourselves on our safeguarding procedures. As part of our commitment to safeguarding, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activities relevant to children.

For further information about our Safeguarding and Prevent policy, please view the documents attached.

We encourage and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or identity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnership.

To apply, please complete an application form before the closing date specified, as CVs will not be accepted. Please ensure you also include a supporting statement as part of your application.

In submitting your application for this position, you are strictly prohibited from using any form of AI (artificial intelligence) tools or automation. By applying, you confirm that all content is your own and not generated or assisted by AI.

We reserve the right to close the submission deadline earlier than expected, so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible.