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Learning Support Teaching Assistant - Full-time

Fulston Manor School, Sittingbourne

  • Ref:KCC886-5414-653S
  • Posted:12/08/2025
  • Pay:FMAT Band C Point 1
  • Start Date:September 2025
  • App Close Date:26/08/2025 at 09:00
  • Interviews:TBC

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Job role:        Learning Support Teaching Assistant

Salary:           MAT Band C1 £25,370.00 FTE from September 2025:  £20,596.94 pro rata p.a

Contract Status:   Permanent  Contract Start Date:  September 2025 Hours: 35 hours per week

Term time plus 2 training days Monday - Friday:  8.30am – 4.00pm (30 minutes unpaid lunchbreak each day)

Closing date:     Tuesday 26th August 2025 Interviews:   TBC

We reserve the right to close the advertisement early as we will be reviewing applications as they come in and may also conduct interviews during this period.

The school is looking to recruit a Learning Support Teaching Assistant to join our well-established team providing support to our students. You will work as directed by the SENCO with individual students and groups of students, supporting with the monitoring of progress for individuals. Due to the nature of the role a patient, caring and compassionate approach is needed.

The successful candidates will be enthusiastic, positive and committed to supporting our students. In return the school can offer excellent CPD opportunities and a supportive and friendly team to work with.Candidates must be able to work collaboratively and it would be preferable but not essential to have some prior experience of working with children or young adults.The successful candidates will be enthusiastic, positive and committed to supporting our students. In return the school can offer excellent CPD opportunities and a supportive and friendly team to work with.

What Fulston Manor School can offer you:

  • Encouragement to develop your career
  • A friendly, strong and supportive team
  • A family atmosphere with welcoming staff and students
  • A caring environment with well-being and work/life balance at its core.
  • To be part of a whole school team – working together to achieve and valuing every individual’s contribution

Fulston Manor is consistently one of the most over-subscribed schools in Kent, this success is based on the quality of our staff and the excellence of our induction and support programmes. The school offers an outstanding learning environment for all its students.

Fulston Manor is focused on developing students into young citizens capable of making a difference. Here, at Fulston, we have a strong pastoral system at our core and we pride ourselves on being about strong traditional family values. All staff and students, who join us, are joining the Fulston family and we look forward to welcoming you to this community.

A completed self-disclosure form will be required at the point of selection for interview. Our safeguarding practices prevent us from accepting CV’s. We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent Duty. ‘This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment’.

 

Information about the school

Fulston Manor is an oversubscribed, non-selective school in Sittingbourne, Kent, this success is based on the quality of our staff and the excellence of our induction and support programmes. The school offers an outstanding learning environment for all its students.

Fulston Manor is focused on developing students into young citizens capable of making a difference. Here, at Fulston, we have a strong pastoral system at our core and we pride ourselves on being about strong traditional family values. All staff and students, who join us, are joining the Fulston family and we look forward to welcoming you to this community.

In collaboration with School Councils, School Governors and Senior Leadership members we have introduced school values to help further enhance our mission to make Fulston Manor School a safe, welcoming and friendly place to learn, celebrating all that is best about the Fulston Family.

We believe that our values, Fortitude, Ambition, Mindful, Integrity, Leadership and Young Citizens, when applied together with relentless consistency can help shape great young citizens, not just for the Fulston Family but for our wider community too.

All staff and students, who join us, are joining the Fulston family and we look forward to welcoming you to this community.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Job Contact Information

Fax: (01795) 428144

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.