Job Introduction
VACANCY
Behaviour & Learning Support Assistant - Term Time
Position Start Date: From 3rd November 2025
Closing Date: 10th October 2025 - Previous applicants need not apply
Interview Date: 17th October 2025
Contract/Hours: Fixed term until 31st August 2026 with the potential to be extended
Salary Details: Grade C (£25,186.00 - £26,244.00 FTE)
Hours of Work: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8.20am-3.20pm, 40 weeks per year (Actual Salary £19,409.04 per annum before Tax and NI)
Are you looking for a new exciting challenge?
We are looking to appoint a friendly, calm, caring and enthusiastic individual to join our dedicated team. We are looking to appoint Behaviour and Learning support assistant to work with pupils who are part of the well-established Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) and Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) resource provisions and pupils across the federation.
We can offer:
- A federation where you are highly valued, supported and cared for
- The opportunity to make a real difference not only to the school but the wider community
- Opportunities to develop skills and knowledge by working with a range of complex SEND needs
- Opportunities for days in lieu for running extra-curricular clubs
- A culture where you will be grown and developed
We are looking for someone who is:
- Ideally experienced in learning support
- Interested in working with pupils with SEMH needs and pupils with ASC needs
- Highly inclusive and able to work within the ethos of ‘every day is a fresh start’ and to not bear a grudge
- Flexible and adaptable
- Able to use their initiative
- Capable of dealing with challenging situations
- Able to work effectively with staff across the schools
- Able to build a good rapport with children across the Primary phase from Nursery – Year 6
Opportunities will be offered for further professional development as part of the school’s commitment to continuing professional development.
At Wildground we believe we ‘learn and succeed together for the journey ahead’. We are an established federation with both the infant and junior schools remaining good with both reports stating the schools could be better than good when fully inspected.
Please note we do not accept online applications or CV’s. Visits are warmly welcomed, to arrange a visit or request an application pack, please contact Marika Johnson Federation Bursar on 02380 844001 or email recruitment@wildground.hants.sch.uk
Wildground Infant & Junior School Federation and Hampshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to ensuring that all our recruitment and selection practices meet the requirements of staff who are engaging in regulated activity. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
