After School Club Assistant EYFS
Lowedges Junior Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 7JGThis job expired on 18 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
4 November 2024
Closing date
18 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
8 October 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
- £8,485.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Band E
After School Club Assistant EYFS job summary
Aston Community Education Trust (ACET) are a forward thinking and ambitious multi-academy trust, comprising of three secondary academies and nine junior academies across the Rotherham, Sheffield and north Derbyshire areas.
An opportunity has arisen in our after-school club for an enthusiastic and passionate individual who is committed to and enjoys working with children. The after-school club provides an out of hours facility for pupils across all key stages immediately after the end of the school day.
Duties will include, working alongside colleagues:
- planning and preparing after-school club facilities and activities to ensure quality standards agreed are met
- supervising pupils between ages 3 – 11, demonstrating consistently high expectations in terms of behaviour
- preparing and serving food (training will be provided)
- meeting individual needs and welfare of all children, actively promoting inclusion
- knowing and putting into practice all relevant policies and procedures
- ensuring that the premises are safe, secure and welcoming to all
- work alongside colleagues and in partnership with parents/carers to meet the needs of the children
The successful applicant will ensure safety and maintain standards of behaviour, contributing to improving outcomes for pupils by actively supporting the aims, objectives and ethos of the academy. You will demonstrate consistently high expectations of the pupils and will work closely within a team of colleagues to ensure the wellbeing of our children.
Safeguarding
ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All applicants should read our Safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.
It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.
Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.
Equality
ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.
We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.
We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. This post involves working with children and therefore if successful, you will be required to apply for a disclosure and barring services check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dbs
Please note if you have not received a reply within three weeks, your application has been unsuccessful
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.
About Lowedges Junior Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 343 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Lowedges Junior Academy website (opens in new tab)
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