Job Title: Learning Support Assistant (LSA)
Location: Hotwells Primary School
Working Pattern: Full-time is 32.5 hours per week (8:30am – 3:30pm, Monday to Friday, term time only). We are open to part-time or flexible working arrangements. If you wish to be considered for part-time, please state your preferred hours, days, or pattern in your cover letter.
Contract Type: Fixed Term until 31st August 2026
Salary: FTE £27,274 per annum
Start Date: As soon as possible
Applications are invited from charismatic, enthusiastic, and suitably qualified Learning Support Assistants for this exciting and rewarding post.
Hotwells Primary School is a vibrant, creative, and community-focused school - small in size but bursting with warmth, curiosity, and imagination. We are proud of our ambitious curriculum, our strengths in the Arts, and our rich local and global community of children and families.
Full-time is 32.5 hours per week (8:30am – 3:30pm, Monday to Friday, term time only). We are open to part-time or flexible working arrangements. If you wish to be considered for part-time, please state your preferred hours, days, or pattern in your cover letter.
Amplify Education is a multi-academy trust of 22 schools across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset. We build belief in every young person, expand opportunities, nurture potential, and strengthen citizenship.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide 1:1 and small-group support for pupils with SEND, working alongside teaching staff to deliver learning activities.
- Assist teachers in the plan, do, review cycle, including record keeping and resource preparation.
- Help implement behaviour management strategies in line with school policies and record incidents on CPOMs.
- Monitor pupil progress, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to EHCPs and SEND Support Plans.
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people at all times.
Candidate Requirements
- Proven experience working with primary-aged children, ideally supporting pupils with SEND.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a dynamic school team.
- A reflective practitioner committed to ongoing professional development.
- A positive attitude, resourcefulness, and a sense of humor.
Key Recruitment Dates & Details
Application Deadline: Monday, 2nd November 2026 at 9:00am
Interviews: Thursday, 5th November 2026
School Visits & Inquiries: Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office..
Please note that all posts at the School are subject to initial and periodic checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service as the school takes every measure possible to ensure the safeguarding of its students.
Safeguarding Statement:
Hotwells Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Visits to the school are encouraged. Please contact the School Office.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Amplify Education are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants, and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.