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Learning Support Teaching Assistant

King's St. Alban's School

Worcestershire

  • £14.78 per hour
  • Expired
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
05 January 2026
Apply by:
17 November 2025

Job overview

We are pleased to present a fantastic opportunity to join the friendly community at King’s St Alban's Prep School, Worcester as a Learning Support Teaching Assistant.

The postholder will be an integral member of the learning support team, providing key interventions to children across the School. Working closely alongside the SENCO, they will support children with a range of additional needs. At the King’s Foundation, we believe in and celebrate each child’s individual brilliance, and this role is pivotal in ensuring that is the case.

The role will include (please refer to the job description for full details):
  • Providing effective educational support for pupils with special educational needs (SEN)
  • Planning and delivering learning activities for individuals or small groups with special educational needs
  • Helping to select and prepare resources tailored to diverse special educational needs and interests
  • Promoting inclusive participation of pupils with SEN in classroom and school activities
  • Being proactive in matters relating to safeguarding and child protection, and health and safety.
We're looking for applicants who can demonstrate:
  • A Teaching Assistant NVQ Level 3 qualification and practical experience
  • A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
What we can offer you:
  • A friendly, supportive and inspiring working environment, with great team dynamics
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • An outstanding setting with excellent indoor and exceptional outdoor facilities
  • Access to a wide range of benefits (please see below).
Working pattern and contract: 12 hours per week (ideally 4 hours per day, across three mornings), plus supporting duties, permanent, term time only.
Salary: £14.78 per hour
Start date: January 2026, following the successful completion of pre-employment checks.
Please note that we are advertising an identical role at King's Hawford Prep School.

Questions? Please message us at recruitment@ksw.org.uk, we’ll be happy to help.

How to apply
  • To apply, please first read the job description below. Applicants can choose to complete either the TES online application form or complete a downloadable application form which can be found on the Current Vacancies page of our website and should be emailed to recruitment@ksw.org.uk
  • When completing the supporting statement of the application form or submitting a cover letter, please ensure that you refer to the job description and person specification. 
  • Application deadline: 9am, Monday 17 November 2025
  • Please note that the King’s Foundation is unable to provide visa sponsorship for successful applicants who do not hold the right to work in the UK.
The King's Foundation
King’s Worcester is a hugely welcoming and fulfilling place to work. We are incredibly proud of our reputation. Our employees and our enviable King’s community is what sets our school apart. We are committed to recruiting the best candidates, who join us from a diverse range of backgrounds, including other educational settings, industry or the commercial world. We are also committed to developing and helping colleagues to thrive while they are here at King’s. Careers at King’s Worcester are exceptionally rewarding in many ways. Here's what we can offer you...
  • We promote the values of mutual respect and integrity at every level in the Foundation, and we are an equal opportunities employer.
  • A highly successful, well-resourced school with a warm, welcoming atmosphere and a positive outlook.
  • A competitive salary, commensurate with the importance of the post and with the experience and qualities of the successful candidate.
  • Access to an Aviva Defined Contribution Pension Scheme for teaching and support staff.
  • A generous fee remission for up to two children of employees who attend schools in the King’s Foundation (pro-rata for part-time staff), following two years of service.
  • A genuinely rewarding role as well as career development and support for professional studies, if appropriate. Whatever the role, we offer excellent training and development. We are also committed to promoting from within whenever we can, giving the chance to build a great future at King’s.
  • Access to the School’s outstanding sports facilities including the gym and swimming pool at agreed times.
  • Staff are able to purchase private medical insurance through the School in order to benefit from group premium rates.
  • Lunch is provided for employees during the school day, plus hot drinks and snacks.
  • Employees have full use of School library resources and services.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Free Yoga classes.
  • Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
The King’s Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-declaration form in relation to any criminal record or information that may make you unsuitable to work with children, and will be subject to an online search. 

In order to provide our pupils with a well-rounded and enriched educational experience that is truly representative of the world in which they grow up, the King’s Foundation strives to place equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do, ensuring that we build a community which is truly representative of all backgrounds and experiences. We believe that we will do that best if our employees come from different backgrounds and if we create an environment of inclusion and belonging for them.

















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About King's St. Alban's School

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  • King's St. Alban's School
  • Mill Street, Worcester
  • Worcestershire
  • WR1 2NJ
  • United Kingdom

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At King's St Alban's we want our School to feel exciting so we make learning as fun and thrilling as possible. Our school life is rich, vibrant, and designed to ensure that every child discovers their inner talents, empowering them to be the very best they can be. Our aim is to inspire every child, build confidence and resilience, and encourage them to aim high.

The King’s warmth is manifest in everything we do at King’s St Alban’s. We are small enough to care for each child; our staff know children and their families well and we are very proud of our reputation for excellent pastoral care.

We offer an exciting and varied curriculum designed to inspire, motivate and challenge our children. We place a strong emphasis on the core subjects of Maths and English whilst also providing subject specific teachers for Art, Music, Science, French and Games.

Creativity plays a huge part in school life as children of all ages participate in Music, Art, Dance, and Drama. At King’s St Alban’s, children can discover more, learn more and experience more. With over 35 after school clubs, our exciting co-curricular programme allows children to learn new skills and enables joy beyond the classroom.

Well over half of the children play a musical instrument and there are regular concerts, both formal and informal, involving the Orchestra, String Group, Flute Choir, Wind Band, Trumpet Group,Recorder Groups and Choir where the standard is high and enthusiasm boundless! The annual Carol Service is staged in the Cathedral and concerts and musical evenings are held in the John Moore Theatre, College Hall and St Alban’s Chapel. A major Art, Dance and Music production is staged annually in the John Moore Theatre with several smaller workshop productions taking place throughout the year. The sporting life of the school thrives with provision for competitive team games at both interschool and inter-house levels. The main sports are Cricket, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rounders, Rugby and Swimming. There are also opportunities for Athletics, Cross-Country, Judo and Fencing.

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