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Inspire - Enable - Achive
Make a Real Difference – Join Us as an Lunchtime Care Assistant!
Weekly Hours: 15 hours per week, 11.00am to 2.00pm Monday to Friday Term time only (38 weeks per year)
Interviews: To be conducted as suitable candidates apply.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a committed and enthusiastic Lunchtime Care Assistant to join our team, providing key SEN support within the classroom and working closely with other teaching staff to ensure pupils are assisted with feeding and personal hygiene care, supporting pupils on the school playground, as well as working with the Catering team and classroom staff as required during lunchtimes. Don’t delay! Interviews may be offered on receipt of applications from suitable candidates.
Key Responsibilities
1. To support pupils during the lunchtime period
2. To attend to the personal hygiene needs of pupils
3. To support pupils on the school playground
About You
4. Passionate about making a difference for children with SEN
5. Patient, empathetic, and able to build positive relationships with pupils
6. Flexible and collaborative, working effectively as part of a team
7. Reliable, resilient, and committed to promoting inclusion and equality
8. Experience of supporting pupils with SEN and utilising strategies to manage behaviours and meet needs, including supporting speech and language
What We Can Offer You
9. Ample free onsite parking
10. Large staffroom with resourced kitchen with complimentary hot and cold beverages
11. Employer contribution pension scheme, with Life Cover
12. Access to employee benefits including discounts on travel and purchases from local shops, cafes and restaurants
13. 24 hour free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme
14. Annual Flu Vaccination
Why join us? As a Lunchtime Care Assistant within Booker Park School, you’ll be able to make a key difference to a pupil’s educational experience as a crucial part of the wider team, and will have the opportunity to develop your skillset with key training and development opportunities available.Other info: Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact Lynne Worley (HR Officer).
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we appoint an appropriate candidate
If you have not been contacted within three weeks of the closing date you must assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful
The above post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory check supplied by the Disclosure & Barring Service. The check will include any cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions.
Safeguarding Statement
The Vale Federation of Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to provide two satisfactory references, undertake pre-employment checks including a health check and have a cleared Enhanced Disclosure & Barring check. An online search (including social media checks) will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates as part of our recruitment process