Learning Support Assistant (Pool)

Keeley Street, Covent Garden

£16.83 (N1) per hour per hour inclusive of pro rata holiday entitlement and preparation time

Are you an experienced Learning Support Assistant? Then join us to provide additional support, for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, helping to bring together people across the capital and beyond and to enrich lives through learning.

City Lit are London's largest provider of learning for adults, inspiring over 30,000 students a year and offering more than 5,000 courses, online and face-to-face. As a leader in our field, who have recently been rated as outstanding in all areas by Ofsted, we have a century’s reputation for delivering the highest quality student experience. 

In this key role, you will provide support effectively in response to individual students assessed needs, working with sensitivity to the needs of students and respect in service confidentiality. The support offered could be across the range of subjects offered by the City Lit and is normally delivered in class.

Please submit your CV and a covering letter, detailing your skills and experience. You will particularly attract our interest if this covers:

• A good level of competency in English, Maths and IT with minimum Level 2 (GCSE grade A-C) qualification in English and Maths or equivalent.
• A qualification in learning difficulties, disabilities or student support, or a commitment to undertake training.
• Can support students to overcome barriers to learning.
• Excellent understanding of the needs and issues facing disabled people and students/people with learning difficulties.
• The ability to explain and promote understanding of these issues and barriers encountered by disabled students to teaching staff and other students.

Our generous rewards and benefits are numerous and wide-ranging, including generous course discounts that include friends and family, our pension scheme plus life assurance. There’s also access the student discounts programme (Totum) and discounted gym membership.

Situated in London’s creative community of Covent Garden, City Lit is a thriving hub of learning and opportunity with a palpable sense of purpose and identity and a culture of equality and inclusivity. We provide a professional and supportive community that blends teaching and learning to deliver endless possibilities.

We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation and we are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong.  We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented these include applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those who have a disability and the LGBTQI+ community.  

Closing Date: 23:59 on 24^th January 2024