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Access to Work Support Worker

Civitas Academy, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7HL

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• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  20 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.18 Hourly Grade RG3 NJC SCP 5-11 £23,500 - £25,979 FTE

Access to Work Support Worker job summary

We are looking for an Access to Work Support Worker to work with one of our employees by providing support in the classroom under the DWP Access to Work scheme.

Are you:

• Able to provide high quality support, enabling our employees to work as independently as possible?

• Experienced within a school or education setting?

• Warm and reliable in character and fully committed to teamwork?

• Confidential and discreet?

If so, you’ll love to be part of our team at Civitas Academy as we have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join the school and REAch2 Academy Trust as a Support Worker.

This position involves daily support within the classroom, preparing resources and computer related work. The applicant must have good experience of working with people and giving support, along with excellent IT skills.

Why work with us

There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:

▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.

▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
 
▶️ A  support package for staff wellbeing

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

 All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.  

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Civitas Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 405 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Civitas Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/civitas-academy (opens in new tab)

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