Roding Valley High School
Essex
Expiring soon
Salary:
Scale 3 Point 5- 6 actual salary (including fringe) £ £11743
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 November 2025
Apply by:
6 October 2025
Job overview
LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANT
Contract term: Permanent
Immediate Start
Contract type - Part time 18.5 hours per week (2 days at 8.30am - 4pm, 1 day 9am - 3pm), 39 weeks per year (Term time plus inset days)
Salary: Scale 3 Point Actual Salary: £ £11743 (including fringe allowance)
Want to meet our wonderful staff? Click here -
We have the exciting opportunity for a personable and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to join our team here at Roding Valley High School.
We are looking for a member of staff to work with students to develop their knowledge and understanding both inside and outside the classroom and lead on some evidence based interventions. We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting young people to achieve and be the best that they can be. The role would suit both primary and secondary practitioners who have knowledge of supporting young people with low literacy and numeracy levels.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Build strong, positive relationships with the students you support.
* Deliver planned learning activities and teaching programs, adapting them to meet students' needs as you go.
* Communicate effectively with other staff, sharing relevant information about students to ensure a consistent approach.
* Help maintain a positive and focused learning environment by promoting and reinforcing school behavior policies.
* Prepare and manage learning resources for lessons and activities, working under the SENCo's/Teacher's guidance.
* Encouraging and enabling students to become more independent learners
* Work one-on-one or in a small group, supporting children with their education, behavioural and social development; delivering high quality, evidence based interventions under the supervision of the SENCo/ Deputy SENCo.
* To support students effectively in the classroom, create a safe and inclusive environment.
* Implement scaffolding by providing temporary, step-by-step support like writing frames and prompts, and use explicit instruction with clear examples and modeling.
* A specialism in English or Maths would be desirable.
We can offer:
* a friendly and supportive working environment
* a comprehensive induction programme and the opportunity to engage in further professional development
* Bike to work Scheme
* freshly made food on-site delivered through our excellent canteen facilities
You will be joining a great school with enthusiastic and dedicated leaders at senior and middle leadership levels and a commitment to the professional development of staff. RVHS is keen to embrace an approach that is centered on teaching and learning and academic attainment for our students. RVHS is an 11-18 school in Essex, that enjoys a good reputation in the local area and benefits from excellent transport links, including being adjacent to Loughton tube station (Central Line).
For further information see the website
Informal discussions with the SENDCo, Mr Tony Taylor, are welcome, please contact him on to arrange.
Closing date: Noon on Monday 6th October 2025
Interviews will take place: to be confirmed
* Whilst there is a published closing date for this vacancy, we reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive sufficient applications. Early applications are therefore strongly encouraged.
The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:
* Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual and cultural development of children and young people;
* Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
* The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.
As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.
About Roding Valley High School
Roding Valley High School
Alderton Hill, Loughton
Essex
IG10 3JA
United Kingdom
Welcome to our school
Welcome to Roding Valley High School. I am incredibly proud to be responsible for the leadership of this fantastic school. If you want to get to know some of my wonderful team, then please click
here.
The school was inspected by Ofsted in September 2022, and to quote the Lead Inspector, 'This is a very good school with an outstanding Sixth Form'.
In the S
ummer
of 2022
, Summer 2023, & 2024 we were delighted with our students' grades. We are delighted with the improvements the school has experienced, and these outcomes are a testament to the sheer commitment and hard work of all staff and students. If you want to see more about student outcomes, then click
here.
The school has signed up to the
Education Wellbeing Charter
. Specifically, Specifically, at Roding Valley, we commit to developing a long-term strategy for improving staff well-being that will:
* Prioritise staff mental health
* Give staff the support they need to take responsibility for their own and other people's wellbeing.
* Give managers access to the tools and resources they need to support the well-being of those they line manage.
* Maintain a clear communications policy
* Continue to give staff a voice in decision-making
* Drive down the unnecessary workload
* Champion flexible working and diversity
* Maintain and support a good behaviour culture
* Support staff to progress in their careers
* Include a sub-strategy for protecting leader's well-being and mental health
* Hold ourselves accountable, including staff wellbeing.
Visitors always comment on the warm and welcoming atmosphere, the politeness of our students and how highly they speak of their school – this is a testament to the school's success, and it is safe, caring and inclusive culture. We take safeguarding very seriously and recognise that everyone in the school community plays a role in keeping children safe.
The school has developed its own successful, bespoke Teaching and Learning framework: ACED. Our ACED framework allows for teacher creativity, but still gives us those all important routines that lead to success in our classrooms. Please
click here
to read more about this.
Our
curriculum
is planned to aid the progression of knowledge and skills in each subject to ensure that our students are equipped with the tools to be successful at every stage of their 7-year school journey, including GCSE, A-Level and beyond. We offer a full complement of subjects through Key Stage 3, which will equip students with the skills to make informed GCSE choices and move on to post-16. Students study a broad range of subjects until they focus on their chosen GCSE subjects from Year 10. Our
Sixth Form
is now established and offers a wide range of A-Level and vocational courses, along with a newly formed partnership with Chelsea Football Club.
Our
pastoral systems
are excellent; we nurture, reward and sanction as appropriate. We have also enhanced our
Personal Development Programme
. This is a progressive curriculum interwoven into the school. The school is enhanced by our
House System
, which supports healthy competition, and encourages student voice and collaboration across the age ranges. We use student leadership to support our highly effective
transition
programme at both Year 7 and Year 12. Our specially trained 'YES' Prefects and our in lesson Sixth Form mentors help support where needed. This year the school ran a summer school which proved to be excellent support for the students transitioning from primary to secondary.
Dan Charlton
Headteacher
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