Senior Learning Support Assistant

Job Reference: SLSA/04.2026

Salary: This is a part time role with an actual salary of up to £14,063.32 per annum, and a full-time equivalent salary of up to £24,435 per annum dependant on skills and experience.

Working Hours: 20.5 hours per week over 4 days, 41 weeks per year.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Learning Support Assistant to join our Learning Support department.

The purpose of the role is to provide support to learners with physical and/or learning needs within small groups or individually.

The successful applicant must have:

• An awareness of disabilities and an awareness of barriers to learning
• Experience working with young people in educational, youth work or similar OR Supporting young people in secondary schools or Further Education
• Flexible with regard to learners supported

• Excellent interpersonal / communicational skills and the ability to be a team player.
• Good Organisational and time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines without compromising quality
• Excellent attention to detail and Level 2 Literacy / numeracy

The roles main duties include:

• Taking responsibility for collating LSA timetables within mainstream and ensuring that these are updated as required
• Arranging cover for absent colleagues within the support team and where necessary to step in and provide cover for LSAs within the classroom
• Checking that LSA pay claims are submitted correctly and timely
• Providing cover for SEND Co-ordinator when working remotely or on day off
• Working with non EHCP students, writing programmes of support and carrying out reviews
• Carrying out LSA appraisals and lesson observations in a timely manner
• Supporting learners with physical/learning difficulties
• Assisting students with learning needs to have full access to the college facilities
• Liaising with academic staff and the SEND Co-ordinator regarding progression of learners on their main stream programme

This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.

Fancy a 4-day working week*?

Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month

Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.

What we offer you in return:

• An excellent pension scheme :
  • Local Government: Employer Contribution 24.5% 
• A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
• In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
  • 5 Weeks for Support employees, this will increase to 5.8 weeks, after 5 years’ service
• Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
• Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
• Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave

The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 26 April 2026.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to hrapplications@grantham.ac.uk  
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This employment offer is subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £61.50 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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