Two Personal Welfare Support Assistants Required to Support Individual Children with Education Health and Care Plan’s (EHCP) 12 – 1pm (5 days a week, term time only) – NJC Grade 2, £12.85 p/hr The contract will be linked to the child’s EHCP Location: Tynsel Parkes CE Primary Academy School Road, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. ST14 7HE Telephone: 01889 221920 For an immediate start, the Principal and the Local Academy Council of Tynsel Parkes CE Primary Academy are seeking to appoint highly motivated Personal Welfare Support Assistants to support children at lunchtime who have SEND. The successful candidates will be providing 1:1 support for children with EHCPs. We want someone with commitment, energy, and a willingness to put the children’s needs first to join us. We are looking for applicants who are reliable, love children and are hard-working, committed and work well in a team; will play lunchtime games and activities with the children and involve the child in games with other children – developing teamwork and friendships. As your role would be to support children with SEND, you would be required to support with personal hygiene. The successful candidate will be someone who: • Is an outstanding role model • Has high expectations of themselves and the children • Is hardworking and a flexible team player who can be reliable • Is able to communicate with class teachers We can offer: • A warm, welcoming Christian academy • Happy, well-motivated children • A strong commitment to continuous professional development. • A supportive, caring and stimulating working and learning environment • Membership of a thoughtful, caring, supportive and hardworking team Visits to see our wonderful school and view our facilities are encouraged. Please contact the school office on 01889 221290 to arrange a visit, or to ask any further questions about the position. We look forward to receiving your application. To apply for this position please complete a support staff application form, and recruitment and monitoring form available on our website here. Please send completed applications for this position to office@tynselparkesacademy.co.uk. Please note applications without references will not be accepted. Tynsel Parkes is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record and other relevant safeguarding information that may make them unsuitable to work with children. It is an offence to apply for this position if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity. A copy of the school’s Safeguarding Policy can be viewed here