Learning Support Specialist (Teaching Role

Salary

£27,656 to £29,302 pro rata

Hours

37 hrs per week, 38 weeks a year

Contract Type

Permanent

Location

Exeter

Closing Date

24/06/2026

Wish you could spend more time with students but have virtually no planning or marking? If you’re passionate about supporting students in small groups or 1:1 sessions, this could be your perfect role.

You’ll need to be…

• proactive and caring
• happy to use your initiative
• a real team player
• an experienced teacher with a teaching qualification (e.g. PGCE, Cert Ed)

What you’ll be doing…

• running drop-in workshops and using your skills where learning happens to support students with specific challenges, such as dyslexia and autism
• supporting and monitoring a caseload of students with EHCPs
• Advising and supporting teaching and learning support staff on how best to facilitate success for our students

This is largely a term time role (36 weeks). A few days fall outside term time to support SEND interview evenings across the academic year. This also includes supporting the enrolment process where you’ll talk to new students and share information about our outstanding offering.

Ambition, Collaboration, Energy. These are our values. Watch this short

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And see what our staff have to say

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Benefits

We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding. Read more on our careers page.

Applying for the role

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Closing date: 24th June 2026 at midnight.

Interviews will be held in Exeter on Thursday 2nd July 2026.

No CVs or agencies please.

Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.

We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.