Job Title: Team Leader / Senior LSA
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
DBS Check Level: Enhanced Child List
Hourly rate: £20.98
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Part Time
Term Time only post: Yes
Advert Closing Date: 08/11/2026
Job Overview
30 hours per week - Term Time only (with additional flexible working hours available for this post.)
As the main Further Education College in Jersey, our mission is to equip young people with the skills they need to be successful in education and in the world of work.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our successful Learning Support Department, assisting students with a diverse range of learning difficulties and disabilities to be successful on their vocational education programme and to develop their literacy, numeracy and study skills.
This role offers candidates an opportunity to build on knowledge and experience in this area and to work with a great team of very skilled and dedicated Senior Learning Support Assistants.
The team regularly engages in CPD and wellbeing activities, with lots of opportunities provided to share best practice within and beyond the team.
We are looking for someone who:
- Is a great communicator and proactive
- A team player
- Has great enthusiasm to enable all students to achieve their very best
- Can encourage and motivate learning
- Can engage learners with lesson content and outcomes
- Has awareness and empathy for how learning difficulties and disabilities can impact on learning and the self-esteem of learners
- Experience of working with multi-lingual learners would be an advantage but not essential
Please read the job description for further information and requirements of the role.
Experience is desirable, however the ability to establish an effective and meaningful rapport with learners is key and training will be provided.
For an informal discussion, please contact Gemma Deakin
Job Description
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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