Care Assistant
Kensington Junior Academy, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 5PA15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Autumn Term 2
Closing date
24 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 31.25 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 8.45am - 3.30pm, TTTO 38 weeks
Contract type
- Fixed term - 9 months
Actual salary
- £16,017.00 - £17,576.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Djanogly Learning Trust has an exciting opportunity for an exceptional Care Assistant to join our team based at Kensington Junior Academy working 31.25 hours a week (8.45am - 3.30pm) term time only to provide 1-2-1 care for a child with SEN needs. This is a tremendous opportunity to make a difference and to be part of a dynamic and innovative staff team.
We are looking for someone who can:
- Work under the direct supervision of colleagues to meet needs of individuals or small groups
- Support pupils’ learning activities including additional learning needs and development
- Support pupils’ physical and care needs to overcome potential barriers to learning
- Support pupils’ individual learning needs and development, e.g. cognitive and learning skills
- Give immediate feedback to pupils and support colleagues in marking work
- Support teachers and teaching assistants in assessing pupil progress and attainment
- Undertake personal care and support of pupils
- Contribute to the health and well-being of pupils
- Establish and maintain relationships with individual pupils and groups
- Use planning from colleagues to regulate own workload
What the school offers its staff
- A culture of trust, where all contributions are recognised and respected
- A skilled senior leadership team with a strong ethos of mutual support and challenge
- Children who engage well and want to learn
- An embedded whole trust commitment to professional development
- A skilled and experienced central service team who proactively support our academies, enabling educationalists to focus on our core purpose – teaching and learning
- A real commitment to work-life balance – we remember we are human beings first and educators second
- Great Trust benefits including: free parking, company paid healthcare, cashback on medical costs, travel and shop discounts and excellent training and development opportunities
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Kensington Junior Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 202 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Kensington Junior Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- l.gray@kensington.djanogly.org
- Phone number
- 0115 9322920
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