Learning Support Assistant and SEND Administrator

Learning Support Assistant and SEND Administrator Term Time Only inclusive of Inset Days 32 paid hour per week 8.15am – 3.25 pm Monday – Thursday 8.15am – 2.30pm Friday Salary: Grade 3 £25,186 – £26,246 per annum fte; actual salary £18,934 - £19,730 Start Date: as soon as available Costello School is meeting the Expected Standard (green) in Every Area – Ofsted, 2026 The Costello School, situated in Basingstoke, North Hampshire, is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Learning Support Assistant to join our amazing team of LSAs. Our recent Ofsted inspection judged the school to be meeting the Expected Standard in Every Area and noted: “A calm and highly orderly environment where pupils are highly engaged in their learning.” They also recognised the support of Bohunt Education Trust in helping drive continued improvement.The successful candidate will be pastorally minded and have the passion and skills to support students in class and through intervention programmes to become independent learners. Please note the daily hours outlined include a 35 minute unpaid daily lunch break. The SEND Administrator role is an add-on to a Learning Support Assistant role. Your daily hours’ allocation for these 2 roles will be: SEND Administrator duties 8.15am – 12 noon; Learning Support Assistant duties 12.00 noon – 3.25pm. Example of some of the role’s responsibilities - LSA: To provide support for the curriculum by working in-class with students Where necessary, to deliver one-to-one or small-group programmes To support students with extra literacy or numeracy work during registration periods To monitor and help students work towards their learning targets in the classroom To support students’ individual needs, which may involve reading information, notetaking/ scribing/organising/collecting work and explaining the lesson and homework tasks/exam arrangements/testing To support the teachers’ delivery of the curriculum by knowing how to make work more acce