23 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    11 August 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    18 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 10 hours per week, term time only Grade 1: Actual salary £5815 - £5906

Contract type

Fixed term - 1 Year - Maternity or parental leave cover

Actual salary

Grade 1: Actual salary £5815 - £5906

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills with children, parents and professionals. Additional training and guidance will be readily available in support of this role.

Support to Pupils

  • To provide a range of stimulating activities, indoor & outdoor, relevant to the age, stage and needs of young children which encourage and develop all areas of development.
  • To provide and prepare safe nutritional snacks for children.
  • To provide a facility for children to do their homework, including reading.
  • Ensure the welfare and safety of children within our care.
  • Promote good behaviour
  • Treat all children as individuals and to have a secure knowledge and understanding of their needs while they are within our care.
  • To act as a First Aider.
  • Motivate and encourage the children to participate in activities.
  • Liaise with Class Teachers and parents/guardians.
  • Develop methods of promoting the children’s self-esteem.
  • Encourage acceptance of children with special needs.
  • To be ready at all times for emergency situations.
  • Ensure a clean, tidy environment conducive to fostering good health and safety practice.
  • Follow statutory and non-statutory policies and procedures required for the efficient running of the club.
  • Ensure the provision is maintained to Ofsted standards of care


What the school offers its staff

St James’ Catholic Primary School is a happy, a part of the Lumen Christi MAC, is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and driven general assistant who is fully committed to enhancing the Catholic Life and Mission of the School.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

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 all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare
Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. Shortlisted candidates will be
subject to online checks, in line with KCSiE Sept 2022.

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About St James Catholic Primary School

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
210 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
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School website
St James Catholic Primary School website
Email address
c.tullett@lumenchristi.org.uk
Phone number
0121 675 5344
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St James’ Catholic School is a thriving and vibrant one-form entry primary school in its community. Being a fully inclusive school, we value every individual and the contributions they make. We want our children to experience the pleasure of achieving personal academic successes, linked to a strong sense of morality and fairness, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ within our Christian faith. At the school’s last Section 48 inspection in May 2019, St James’ was judged to be an ‘Outstanding’ Catholic school.

‘The school’s mission, ‘In the loving peace, justice and joy of Jesus, we achieve,’ is at the heart of its daily life and is understood and put into practice by everyone in the community.’

Section 48 / May 2019

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