Primary Learning Support Teacher – One-year maternity cover – August 2025 start

Reports to: Learning Support Coordinator (Primary School), Head of Primary

Responsibilities: To plan and deliver effective 1:1 and small group lessons, and to assist staff in planning programmes, strategies and approaches for individual learners in the classroom.

To assist with the delivery of the School’s Student Support Policy.

Please note this role will commence in August 2025 and will be for a fixed term until the end of the academic year.

The Student Support Services Department

Student Support Services (SSS) is a multidisciplinary team approach which aims to support BST students to enjoy learning and achieve their goals through helping to provide a safe, secure and stimulating environment. Across the roles in our team we share experience and skills in Counseling, English as an Additional Language (EAL), Learning Support and Medical and Healthcare. The Learning Support Teacher plays a key role in promoting inclusive teaching and learning, ensuring that all students are given the support they need to succeed academically and socially while fostering an inclusive educational environment at BST.

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic teacher with a passion for Learning Support, skilled in using research-based teaching strategies to foster inclusion and challenge for all students. The Learning Support Teacher will collaborate closely with staff, students, parents, and external agencies to deliver tailored support that promotes student success. This role requires a commitment to a student-centered, holistic approach, emphasizing communication, collaboration, and building relationships based on fairness, trust, and mutual respect.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Individual Needs

• Foster an inclusive learning environment both in and outside of the classroom, ensuring students can access a full range of learning experiences.
• Promote positive relationships with all students, encouraging self-esteem, independence, and mutual respect.
• Identify students with specific learning challenges, and maintain the Register of Need and Student Learner Profiles.
• Collaborate with teachers and external specialists to adapt resources and teaching strategies to meet individual needs.
• Lead and manage learning support programs to raise the attainment of students with additional needs.
• Support students with emotional, behavioural, and social challenges, promoting development through small group and peer interactions.

Teaching and Learning

• Promote inclusion by supporting students in both individual and group settings to enhance academic, social, and emotional development.
• Be an exemplary teacher, clearly demonstrating effective planning, teaching organisation, and promoting high standards of attainment and behaviour.
• Have a secure knowledge of the primary curriculum, foster and maintain students’ interest in learning, and address misunderstandings.
• Adapt teaching approaches to individual needs and ensure an inclusive, engaging learning atmosphere.
• Use evidence-informed strategies to plan and deliver lessons that promote progress and challenge for all students
• Monitor and analyze student progress, assessing the impact of interventions and adjusting strategies as necessary.
• Give students regular feedback and guide students to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs
• Monitor individual student achievement and respond accordingly.
• Have high expectations of behaviour, and establish a framework for adhering to the school’s values.

Collaboration and Communication

• Support class teachers and specialist teachers in terms of adaptive teaching strategies to meet the needs of the students in their class(es).
• Work closely with teachers, parents, and external agencies to develop and implement effective learning strategies for students with additional needs.
• Ensure open communication with parents regarding student progress, well-being, and support plans.
• Act as a liaison for smooth transitions between year groups, especially for students moving from Year 6 to Year 7.
• Support the development of Student Learner Profiles in collaboration with the Student Support Services Team, highlighting strengths and growth areas.

Leadership and Professional Development

• Line manage Educational Assistants and Learning Support Teaching Assistants, providing guidance and support in their roles.
• Take responsibility for improving teaching through appropriate professional development, responding to advice and feedback from colleagues
• Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, sharing strategies and best practices for inclusive teaching.
• Contribute to the relevant sections of the school’s evaluation and improvement documentation

Other roles

• Have regard for the need to safeguard students’ well-being, in accordance with the school’s provision
• Treat students with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect
• Actively participate in the wider life of the school, contributing to its inclusive ethos and supportive environment.
• Run, or assist in running, extra-curricular and activities
• Attend, and take an active part in, residential trips
• Other reasonable requests made by the Head of the Primary School and Senior Leadership Team.

How to Apply

Please see the full job description, and apply via our website directly via the following link: LS Teacher (maternity cover fixed term).

Closing date for applications: April 20th 2025.

The British School in Tokyo welcomes applications from suitably skilled applicants from all backgrounds.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check or International Child Protection Check, and provision of satisfactory background checks for at least the past 5 years.

Further information about the school is available on the School’s website www.bst.ac.jp 

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