Learning Support Assistant Roles

Job Start Date: 1st September 2026

Interview Date: TBC

Salary Type: Support Staff

Salary Details: Grade B or C dependent on experience and qualifications

Hours of Work: Monday to Friday – 8:45am to 3:20pm, term time only

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work at Stoke Park Infant school working as a Learning Support Assistant.  These roles are ideal for someone who wishes to gain experience working with children or a newly qualified teacher that wishes to develop their skills and confidence.    At Stoke Park, we offer great professional development opportunities tailored to your individual needs so that you can develop your skills and confidence to take you further in your career.   Whatever your career path, we will help you to meet your potential.

We are looking to appoint support staff for both our mainstream and Resource Provision. The Resource Provision role is supporting children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). The other LSA roles are to support children as part of the whole school.  As part of the Resource Provision role, you will need to be able to work with both infant and junior children. 

We are seeking someone who is an adaptable and supportive team member who puts children first, is willing to learn and work in a child-centred environment.  If you feel that you have the skills and would like to make a real difference to children’s experience and learning and have high expectations but can allow children to be individuals, then please continue reading!

At Stoke Park we can guarantee that we all work together to ensure that our children are developing life-long learning skills.   Our school aims to ensure that the learning journey that the children are taking is an exciting one, with lots of fun.  We wish to appoint enthusiastic learning support assistants to join our team.   Our children enjoy working with caring and nurturing adults in creative and exciting learning environments.

We are looking for a learning support assistant who:

• Enjoys working with children and has a nurturing attitude and puts children’s needs first. 
• Caring, calm and patient 
• Able to work as part of a team, learning with and from other colleagues 
• Enjoys working independently and with initiative 
• able to work effectively with children to move their learning forward 
• Highly organised and has good time management skills 
• Flexible, proactive and resourceful 
• Competency in literacy and numeracy 
• Demonstrates high levels of emotional intelligence
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written 
• Able to provide written and verbal feedback to the class teacher as required 
• Understands confidentiality and safeguarding procedures

In return, we can offer:

• A vibrant and aspirational environment 
• Opportunities to develop your practice
• Engaged and enthusiastic children 
• A friendly, supportive and professional staff team 
• A chance to make a real difference to children’s lives 
• A fantastic woodland setting

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged and recommended, and we will be happy to show you around and talk to you more about the roles. 

We are absolutely committed to safeguarding our children and our recruitment procedures are rigorous in this respect.

If you would like to apply for this role, please complete the application form below and email to t.keogh@stokepark-inf.hants.sch.uk