Afterschool Club Assistant
Cherry Tree Academy, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 2HNThis job expired on 13 January 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Monday 27th January 2025
Closing date
13 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 December 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
- Grade 2 FTE £23,656 (Actual £7,173)
Afterschool Club Assistant job summary
Waterton Academy Trust is looking to appoint an Afterschool Club Assistant to join the team at Cherry Tree Academy.
Cherry Tree Academy is on an exciting school improvement journey with all stakeholders firmly committed to providing high-quality education for all pupils. We seek to ensure that every pupil achieves their full potential and develops a sense of belonging to our school community and family of schools.
Our ideal candidate will:
Be enthusiastic, highly motivated and hardworking
Have a commitment to support our common purpose of providing our children with the best possible care and education
Have experience of working in primary schools.
Greet children on arrival at club, provide and supervise play
Follow Risk Assessments guidelines
Follow Food Hygiene guidelines in preparing food
Supervise pupils, ensuring their safety
Report any pupil problems or behavioural difficulties in accordance with school
policy and work at all times within safeguarding guidelines. Be prepared to take on a DSL role for the ASC.
Deal with incidents in accordance with school policy; encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
Liaise with parents
Report all accidents and complete a form for parent
Ensure that any person on the premises is authorised to be there
Will join in games and be encouraging with homework and reading
Will be caring, friendly, kind and a good role model
Assist with the personal needs of pupils including social, health, physical, hygiene, first aid and welfare matters and to show patience, tolerance and warmth to all children.
Assist with the supervision of pupils ensuring their safety and access to learning.
To prepare the setting as directed for activities and to clear afterwards.
Ensure that the setting abides by and maintains appropriate legislative and quality assurance requirements.
Undertake appropriate training courses.
Collect and deliver children safely to and from the setting and deliver the children to the appropriate parent/carer at the end of the session
Other duties commensurate with the grade of the post as directed by the Headteacher.
In return we can offer:
The support and expertise of the school’s leadership team and wider Trust School Improvement Team
A modern, bright and spacious learning environment (recently developed and refurbished)
The opportunity to work alongside colleagues who are wholeheartedly dedicated to the pupils and community they serve
A commitment to support your continued professional development through a network of experienced professionals across the Waterton family of schools
The opportunity to contribute widely to school improvement
A health and wellbeing package
Commitment to safeguarding
Waterton Academy Trust is committed to ensuring children and young people are fully supported and safe and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Safer recruitment processes are followed which all applicants will be subject to. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful candidate and two satisfactory references. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of any unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to interview.
The Trust is committed in ensuring that all employees and applicants are treated equally and fairly.
About Cherry Tree Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 243 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Cherry Tree Academy website (opens in new tab)
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