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  • Job Title

    Learning Support Assistant (Maternity Cover)

  • Location

    Whyteleafe, Surrey

  • Posted

    7th February 2025

  • School

    Whyteleafe Primary School

  • Salary

    GLF Associate 2 - Actual Salary: £16,202

  • Hours

    Part Time, Term Time

  • Description

    We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Learning Support Assistant to join our team at Whyteleafe Primary School on a temporary basis to cover maternity leave. This is a fan ...

Chalklands Cluster

The Chalklands cluster is made up of five schools in the local area - Hillcroft Primary School, Marden Lodge Primary School, Whyteleafe Primary School, Warlingham Village Primary School and Chestnut Park Patimary School.

Please click here to view vacancies in the Chalklands Cluster

About Whyteleafe Primary School

What we stand for

Whyteleafe is a high achieving, happy, vibrant and forward thinking school in which children excel themselves, both academically and socially. Our eager children have a real thirst for learning and our excellent staff team are committed and dedicated in ensuring that each and every child achieves. We have high standards and expect the best.

Our vision is 'Aim High. Be independent and enjoy yourself' and underpinning this are our core beliefs that every child should leave us: literate and numerate, with a love for learning and with excellent social skills.

Our values are embedded within the school.  The 5 Sapphires encourage our children to be Respectful, Responsible, Kind, Self Controlled and Honest.  Children who display these values are rewarded with a sapphire tie which they wear for that week.

Collaborative Working

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GLF Schools promotes a cross-cluster collaborative approach, allowing colleagues to share expertise and experience, ensuring all children in our schools receive an excellent education and reach their potential. Through this cluster model, GLF Schools is committed to providing opportunities for professional development and career progression.

Our School sits within an established cluster of Primary schools, overseen by a Regional Director. Along with Whyteleafe, our cluster includes the following other schools; Chestnut Park Primary School, Hillcroft Primary School, Warlingham Village Primary School, and Marden Lodge Primary School.     

Reasons to join our team at Whyteleafe

  • Dedicated and passionate staff
  • Inclusive learning environment
  • Dynamic teaching and learning
  • Creative curriculum and resources
  • Outstanding leadership at all levels
  • Thriving students who are healthy and happy
  • Part of the GLF Chalklands cluster (including Hillcroft Primary, Warlingham Primary, Marden Lodge Primary, Whyteleafe Primary and Chestnut Park Primary), encouraging a collaborative approach to working.

Proud to be Part of GLF Schools

Where Children Grow, Learn and Flourish


GLF Schools is a Multi-Academy Trust established in 2012. We believe that every child in our schools can achieve the highest academic standards whilst enjoying a vibrant, challenging and rich curriculum. What we say in our motto is true: "Where Children Grow, Learn and Flourish." Whilst operating as a part of a family, each of our schools has its own distinct character and culture which is respectful of its community and context but their utmost common ground is that it is our staff that make each school. Our collective GLF culture is built upon caring for our children and students by enabling our staff to provide the best possible education with the resources at our disposal.

We have a simple mission. "To be a supportive family of schools where together we grow, learn and flourish” 



Thrive in a Career with GLF

Joining GLF schools brings a wealth of opportunity both personally and professionally. Each school in our trust has its own individual identity, while benefiting from the expertise that comes from a dedicated and experienced support team. GLF Schools will recognise your skills, encourage creativity and provide opportunities for you to grow, learn and flourish. As a member of staff you can expect GLF to invest in your career progression, provide a bespoke career development plan and offer the potential to be fast tracked into leadership. GLF Schools has a generous employment offer which allows our colleagues to Grow, Learn and Flourish.

For more information about the benefits of working for GLF, please click here to visit our GLF Careers page. 

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Train, Learn & Grow with GLF Teaching School Hub



GLF is proud to have been selected by the Department for Education as one of the country's 87 centres of excellence for teacher training and development. As a Teaching School Hub, GLF provides high-quality professional development to teachers at all stages of their careers across our 43 GLF Trust schools and 475 other schools in the local region.

As a Teaching School Hub, GLF delivers initial teacher training, early career teacher support, and training for teachers in their first two years of teaching, as well as middle and senior leader training programs, through the delivery of our suite of national professional qualifications. GLF is also the Appropriate Body for over 730 early career teachers within GLF and beyond into West Sussex, ensuring that all early career teachers are well-supported and effectively trained.

We have excellent regional partnerships that benefit all teachers, support staff, and school leaders who work for GLF or collaborate with GLF’s Teaching School Hub. Many of our past trainee teachers go on to be mentors and leaders who come back and facilitate through GLF’s Teaching School Hub.

GLF Teaching Schools Hub seeks to train, develop, and grow ambitious teachers who grow into outstanding leaders.

GLF is exceptionally proud of GLF Schools Teacher Training, where our initial teacher training program integrates seamlessly with GLF’s Teaching School Hub programs to support all teachers on their journey to excellence.

 Working with Inspiring Future Teachers, GLF’s Initial Teacher Training Hub offers fee-paying and employment-based routes with PGCE for teacher training in primary and secondary schools. Our training programs are led by excellent, experienced, practicing facilitators who care for and develop our passionate trainees into the teaching profession. Our wide range of support and partnerships means we offer outstanding retention and employment rates for our trainee teachers.

Train, learn, and grow with GLF TSH

Find out more about GLF Teaching School Hub HERE

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Whyteleafe Hill, Surrey

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Swavesey
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CB24 4RS