Start date: 1 September 2024 Federation of Victoria School and Victoria College Northfield B31 1LD Telephone number: 0121 477 0274 Contact email: recruitmentvictoria.bham.sch.uk Permanent Male Assistant with Responsibility for Personal Care 27.5 Hours per week 9:00am to 3:00pm (5 days) (including a 30 minute unpaid lunch break) Salary (Grade 2) Scale point 3 £15,796.80 – Scale Point 8 £17,161.83 SEN Allowance of £1507 We are looking to appoint a Personal Care Assistant (Male) to work at Victoria School. Victoria School is an all-through school for children and young people aged 2-19 years with physical disabilities, complex health care needs and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties. The successful Candidate will need to demonstrate how they can: work using own initiative, and as part of a team support the varied, complex needs of our pupils communicate clearly and effectively with parents/carers, pupils and colleagues take ownership of tasks work flexibly to meet the needs of the school The successful candidate will be a valuable member of the team, providing personal care support to our senior male pupils. You will work as part of a team to develop personal care programmes for pupils and will assist pupils to implement their own personal care programmes during the school day, specifically in relation to practical support for: personal hygiene toileting and continence training hoisted transfers eating and drinking You will be required to: keep records related to personal care in conjunction with the appropriate teacher/other officer maintain and clean personal care equipment and materials, clothing etc maintain toiletry supplies cooperatively with other staff supporting the pupils’ educational and health care needs under the guidance of a member of the Senior Management or Senior Leadership Teams A willingness to undertake further training as deemed necessary is a requirement of the post. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. Application packs can be downloaded from our website or requested and returned by email at recruitmentvictoria.bham.sch.uk This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. BCC is a Living Wage employer Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means 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. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.