Care Assistant
West Lea School, London, N9 9TU14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 June 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
11 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 hours per week for 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £23,851 – £24,193 per annum (Scale 3, point 5-6).
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you our next Care Assistant?
Thank you for your interest in this rewarding and impactful opportunity. We’re excited to welcome a caring, reliable, and learner-focused individual to join our team in a role that truly makes a difference.
As a Care Assistant at West Lea School, you’ll play a vital part in supporting the health, wellbeing, and independence of our learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). You’ll work closely with class teams, healthcare professionals, and families to provide high-quality personal and medical care, helping learners feel safe, included, and confident in their school environment.
This is more than a care role - it’s a chance to empower young people to overcome barriers, build life skills, and flourish in every aspect of their development.
We’re looking for someone who is:
• Passionate about inclusion and learner wellbeing
• Experienced in providing personal or medical care
• Calm, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent
• Skilled at working collaboratively with learners, families, and professionals
• Reliable, proactive, and committed to high standards of carePerson Specification
The specification is to guide candidates and managers during the recruitment process. Qualifications Essential Desirable
Good general standard of education qualifications to GCSE, particularly in English and Mathematics (grade C or above) or equivalent
✓
Paediatric First Aid and Safeguarding (level 1)
✓
Mental health first aid qualification
✓
Continuous professional development (e.g, evidence of ongoing learning and development in specialist areas)
✓
Knowledge & Experience Essential Desirable
At least 2 years’ experience in a busy care/welfare role delivering an exceptional service.
We will ask to see evidence of the following:
- Knowledge of working with children, young people and adults with complex needs (including medical procedures – seizure management, anaphylaxis, asthma, enteral feeding, gastronomy care and risk management)
- Knowledge and experience of managing medical emergencies as well as the effective coordination of care (e.g., identification of unwell children)
✓ Skills and Attributes Essential Desirable
Empathetic and patient. Demonstrates calm, compassionate care and emotional intelligence.
✓
Strong communicator. Shares information clearly with colleagues, families, and professionals.
✓
Team player. Works collaboratively across school and healthcare teams.
✓
Adaptable and proactive. Responds flexibly to changing needs and takes initiative.
✓
Committed to inclusion and safeguarding. Upholds dignity, equality, and safety in all care.
✓
Accountable and reflective. Takes responsibility for high standards and continuous improvement.
✓
What the school offers its staff
Generous pension scheme with 19.01% employer contributions
• Supportive learning culture with funded continuous professional development (CPD)
• Paid membership of a professional body (if applicable)
• Professional networking opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Free onsite parking
• Opportunity to make a real difference in a highly rewarding and inclusive organisation
Commitment to safeguarding
West Lea School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure and checks regarding proof of ID, medical clearance and the right to work in the UK.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to people.team@westleaschool.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About West Lea School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 475 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- West Lea School website
- Email address
- people.team@westleaschool.co.uk
Based in the borough of Enfield, West Lea is a school that provides education to children and young adults with special educational needs and disabilities, from the ages of 4 to 25.
We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome. Our four campuses – Meridian, Haselbury, Learning for Life and Horizon – serve nearly 450 learners and are home to 220 employees.
A strong community that works together with the common goal of helping each other to flourish, our learners leave equipped with a ‘suitcase of skills’ that help them to progress onto further education and work.
We’re a disability confident employer that’s Investors in People accredited, with firmly held values placed at our core.
• Our origins are humble. We opened in 1938 as an open air school for ‘delicate’ children
• Our modern-day growth journey began in 2014, starting with 80 learners on a single site
• We now cater for students with a range of complex special educational needs and disabilities
• We’ve grown rapidly in response to increased demand across the borough of Enfield
• Our four campuses serve nearly 450 learners aged
4 to 19 and 25 learners aged 19 to 25
• Throughout their journey, learners develop vital life skills as well as achieve academically
• We actively prepare learners for adulthood, further education and the workplace
• Our provision includes the Attendance Support Service (ASU), Home Tuition Service and a post 16 bridging programme that enables learners to go to a local college
• Our Travel Training Programme enables many learners to travel confidently and independently
• Learners gain work experience with local employers and through our partnership with the Learning for Life Charity (LFLC)
• Our Supported Internship Programme gives young people aged 16 to 25 an opportunity to work
• 80% of our interns get jobs and 90% retain them
• We’re a founder member of the Enterprise Cooperative Trust in Enfield borough
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