The Avenue Special School is looking for creative, motivational, and inspiring professionals.

Our vibrant and friendly school community supports more than 250 pupils, aged between 3-19, with a range of severe or profound learning difficulties, some physical disabilities and autism.

We have small, well-resourced classes and a real passion for supporting young people to have active and healthy lives through an exciting education both in and out of the classroom.

Working at The Avenue provides you with the opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of young people with special educational needs. It also allows you to progress in your career, taking on responsibilities and developing your passions and interests.

The Avenue cares deeply about CPD and balancing workloads to allow staff to flourish, so we offer a full programme of training and mentoring, staff wellbeing days, and the chance to work in a supportive and encouraging team environment where your voice really does matter.

Our ambitious school is rapidly expanding, and we need dynamic and committed professionals to join our excellent team.

Successful candidates will be strong team-players with a compassionate, calm, friendly and playful nature.   If you’re excited about the skills you can bring to one of our classrooms, we would love to hear from you!

            

We are currently recruiting for the following positions:-

FULL AND PART-TIME LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANTS - We have full-time vacancies as well as part-time hours working 4 days, 3 days and 2 days.  Hours of work are 8.30 am to 3.15 pm.  Staff are entitled to a paid 15-minute mid-morning break and a 30-minute unpaid lunchbreak.

Further information can be found in the LSA recruitment section. If you are interested in applying for one of our roles, please send a completed application and relevant forms to recruitment@avenue.reading.sch.uk by the closing date (9 am on 6th June 2025), stating what days you would like to work. 

If you are interested in a tour of the school or more information about one of our roles, please contact Vanessa Carrick on 0118 214 5257. 

Please be aware that safeguarding is important to us. We follow safer recruitment best practice. All job offers will be subject to Enhanced DBS checks and 2 employment references, one being the most recent employer. If this is your first job in a school in the UK, we will require applicants to provide a recent overseas check.

 Thank you and we look forward to receiving your completed application form.